Wenxiu

1924-XX-XX–1925-XX-XXCommanding Officer 2nd Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st National People's Army under General Feng Yuxiang1925-XX-XXChief Adjutant 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st National People's Army1926-XX-XX–1927-XX-XXCommanding Officer 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Route, Shaanxi Reinforcement Army1927-XX-XX–1928-XX-XXCommanding Officer 15th Division, 6th Army, 2nd Army Group1928-XX-XX–1929-XX-XXDeputy Commanding Officer 20th Division1928-XX-XXActing Commanding Officer 20th Division1929-XX-XX–1938-XX-XXCommanding Officer 20th Division, 3rd Route Army1937-XX-XX–1938-XX-XXCommanding Officer 12th Army, 3rd Army Group1938-XX-XXDeputy Commander in Chief 3rd Army Group1938-XX-XXActing Commander in Chief 3rd Army Group1938-XX-XX–1943-XX-XXCommander in Chief 3rd Army Group1943-XX-XX–1946-XX-XXMember of the Military Advisory Council1946-XX-XXRetired

Puyi
溥儀

Puyi c.

1930–40s

First reign2 December 1908 – 12 February 1912PredecessorGuangxu EmperorSuccessorMonarchy Abolished, Qing Dynasty Abolished; Sun Yat-sen as President of the Republic of ChinaRegentsZaifeng, Prince Chun(1908–11)
Empress Dowager Longyu(1911–12)Prime MinistersSecond reign1 July 1917 – 12 July 1917^[a]Prime ministerZhang XunReign1 March 1934 – 17 August 1945PredecessorHimself as Chief Executive of ManchukuoSuccessorPosition abolished(Manchukuo dissolved)Prime MinisterReign18 February 1932 – 28 February 1934PredecessorManchukuo and position establishedSuccessorHimself as emperorPrime MinisterZheng XiaoxuBornAisin-Gioro Puyi
(愛新覺羅·溥儀)
(1906-02-07)February 7, 1906
Prince Chun Mansion, Beijing, Qing dynastyDiedOctober 17, 1967(1967-10-17) (aged 61)
Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaBuria

His was a strange and tragic life; for a time the nominal ruler of the world (in Confucian belief) and a recognized emperor for longer than most realized he spent most of his life as a powerless prisoner of the designs of those around him. He was born Aisin-Gioro Pu-Yi, took the English name Henry among his siblings, reigned as the Emperor Hsuan-tung and later as Emperor Kang Teh but thanks to an award-winning film about him he is probably best known simply as "The Last Emperor". A member of the Manchu dynasty little Pu-Yi was born in 1906 to the second Prince Chun and Princess Youlan. When he was 3 years old he was taken to the Forbidden City in Peking. Emperor Guangxu had just died, still locked away by the Grand Empress Dowager Cixi and the aged woman who had dominated China for so long, then on her deathbed, appointed Pu-Yi to be the next Emperor of China with his father as regent. A short time later, in a grand, elaborate Confucian ceremony that was the last of its kind in China, the little boy was formally enthroned as Hsuan-tung, "Great Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, Gra