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Puyi

1906 - 1967

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Puyi (7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967) was the last emperor of China, reigning as the eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty. In 1908, when the Guangxu Emperor died without an heir, Empress Dowager Cixi picked his nephew Puyi, aged two, to succeed him as the Xuantong Emperor. Puyi's father, Zaifeng, Prince Chun, served as regent for his son before Puyi was forced to abdicate in 1912 as a result of the Xinhai Revolution, which ended two millennia of imperial rule and established the Republic of China. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Puyi has received more than 9,389,298 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Puyi is the 442nd most popular politician (down from 237th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from China (down from 14th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Chinese Politician.

Puyi, also known as Henry Pu Yi, was the last emperor of China who ascended the throne at the age of two and was deposed by the Chinese Republic in 1912. He is most famous for his association with the Qing dynasty and his later life as a puppet emperor under the Japanese occupation of Manchuria during World War II.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Puyi ranks 442 out of 19,576. Before him are Severus Alexander, Arcadius, Osman III, Jiang Zemin, Artaxerxes I of Persia, and Constantine II of Greece. After him are Emperor Taizong of Tang, Leopold I of Belgium, Peisistratos, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Menkaure, and Louis X of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Puyi ranks 7. Before him are Leonid Brezhnev, Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Grace Hopper, and Samuel Beckett. After him are Luchino Visconti, Aristotle Onassis, Kurt Gödel, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Albert Hofmann, and Maria Goeppert Mayer. Among people deceased in 1967, Puyi ranks 6. Before him are Che Guevara, J. Robert Oppenheimer, René Magritte, Konrad Adenauer, and Vivien Leigh. After him are Casimir Funk, Vladimir Komarov, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Clement Attlee, Ilse Koch, and Spencer Tracy.

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In China

Among people born in China, Puyi ranks 33 out of 1,610. Before him are Zhuge Liang (181), Mencius (-372), Cai Lun (48), Lü Bu (161), Zhuang Zhou (-369), and Jiang Zemin (1926). After him are Emperor Taizong of Tang (598), Yongle Emperor (1360), Hongwu Emperor (1328), Nurhaci (1559), Zhu Xi (1130), and Zhou Enlai (1898).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Puyi ranks 15. Before him are Wu Zetian (624), Hu Jintao (1942), Qianlong Emperor (1711), Liu Bei (161), Kangxi Emperor (1654), and Jiang Zemin (1926). After him are Emperor Taizong of Tang (598), Yongle Emperor (1360), Hongwu Emperor (1328), Nurhaci (1559), Zhou Enlai (1898), and Emperor Wu of Han (-156).

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