Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became the Emperor Hsv.r.n Tung again for a few days when swashbuckling General Hsun, so reactionary that he still kept his pigtail, captured...
Peiping, and popped him on the throne in the middle of a July night. With Japanese money and the first airplanes used in a Chinese war, ousted Premier Tuan Chi-sui captured the city a few days later and gave Emperor Hsuan Tung 30 minutes to abdicate...
While the old lady watched, Little Pu Yi was robed in imperial yellow and placed on the dragon throne as the Emperor Hsuan Tung. Next day the Dowager Empress died suddenly. Prince Chun became Regent and the Emperor Hsuan Tung went back to his nursery. At the age of six, he emerged briefly to abdicate after the successful revolution of Canton's great Sun Yatsen. He continued to live in the Forbidden City, studying with his British tutor. Sir Reginald Johnston, a former customs official of Weihaiwei. and attempting to collect the magnificent salary of $4,000,000 that...
Bicycling is one of his hobbies. As a Japanese puppet he dares not leave his palace unguarded, so he rides around and around his garden compound, doing tricks. The Emperor of Manchukuo can now pedal on the rear wheel alone, with the front wheel in the air. Photography is another pastime. Henry Pu Yi likes to show his own cinemas after dinner and complains sometimes that visiting tourists never send him copies of the snapshots for which he is always willing to pose...
...nominal ruler of 30,000,000 Manchukuans, of whom less than 10% are full-blooded Manchus, Henry Pu Yi's intentions are of the best. Month ago he gave his first interview as Emperor-to-be. Henry Pu Yi wore the new khaki uniform of a Manchukuan Field Marshal with which the Japanese Government had fitted him out, complete with embroidered orchids on the epaulets, and gleaming field boots. Though he speaks English perfectly an interpreter solemnly translated questions and answers. He announced...