Pu Yi inherited the throne in 1908 at age two, but he only ruled from until he was five. He was forced to abdicate in favor of the new republic under Sun Yat-Sen. Pu Yi got his position back after a few decades when Japan made him the emperor of their puppet state of Manchuria. At the end of World War II, Japan surrendered and took Pu Yi’s fake title with them. Pu Yi was promptly sent to Chinese prison, where he expected to be executed or quietly killed off.
Instead, he was sentenced to tend vegetables. While in prison, the former emperor lived as a commoner named “Prisoner No. 981.” Pu Yi was a model prisoner. In fact, he impressed (or underwhelmed) the ruling Communist Party so much that he was allowed to leave prison – as a normal, not-royal, Chinese citizen. Pu Yi lived out his life quietly, working part-time as an assistant gardener.
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