On October 16, 1967, I stood before the throne in the Forbidden City, gazing up at the seat from which emperors once surveyed their empire. Tomorrow, Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing dynasty, will ...
The last emperor of China, Pu Yi, abdicated in 1912. He was the 12th emperor of the historically important Qing dynasty, which lasted 267 years. With his departure, two millennia of empire, usually ...