Henry Puyi may have lived his final days as a commoner, but his life was anything but ordinary. China’s last emperor, Puyi ascended to the Qing dynasty throne at age three, only to be stripped ...

Blinking, spectacled Henry Pu Yi was about to become Manchu Emperor of the new state of Ta Manchu Tikuo, until last week Manchukuo, until two years ago Manchuria. All this had a profound effect on ...

Far to the North, hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi, Japan’s puppet ruler of Manchukuo, wondered how soon he would be returned to his old home. A faction in the Japanese Supreme War Council was known to ...