Pu Yi- The Last Emperor of China (part 1 English Subs)

Chosen by Dowager Empress Cixi while on her deathbed,[7] Puyi ascended the throne aged 2 years and 10 months in December 1908 following his uncle's death on 14 November. He was titled the Xuantong Emperor. Puyi's introduction to emperorship began when palace officials arrived at his family household to take him. Puyi screamed and resisted as the officials ordered the eunuchs to pick him up.[15]
His wet-nurse, Wen-Chao Wang, was the only one who could console him, and therefore accompanied Puyi to the Forbidden City. Puyi would not see his real mother again for seven years. Puyi developed a special closeness with Wen-Chao Wang and credited her with being the only person who could control him. She was sent away when he was eight years old. After he married, he would occasionally bring her to the Forbidden City, and later Manchukuo, to visit him. After his special government pardon in 1959, he visited her adopted son and only then learned of her personal sacrifices to be his nurse.[16]
Puyi's upbringing was hardly conducive to the raising of a healthy, well-balanced child. Overnight, he was treated as a god and unable to behave as a child. The adults in his life, save his wet-nurse Wen-Chao, were all strangers, remote, distant, and unable to discipline him. Wherever he went, grown men would kneel to the floor in a ritual kow-tow, averting their eyes until he passed. Soon the young Puyi discovered the absolute power he wielded over the eunuchs, and frequently had them beaten for small transgressions.[15]

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi

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[ffabris]

Thank you for posting!

[fujitsuOOking]

@ffabris hi ffabris~~

thank you for watching~~

:)

[travkeyes]

ty i love this type of show i like to know history for some reason

[4IcyHot]

orange chicken .. lol..

[anne123480]

oh was that the Emperior he based the movie on i remeber seeing it a few years ago on tv and the Emperor was a really young little boy too but a cute looking little kid

[Co0kieNo0dle]

Li Yuqin, the Fu Concubine, have sons. So there are still "royal" blood around in China. But I wonder who are they...

[k6l11h58]

@wisesatyr72

It's "am I blue?" , a jazz standard. see Wikipedia:

"Am I Blue?" is a song written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke in 1929, and was a big hit that year for Ethel Waters. It has become a standard and has been covered by numerous artists.

[wisesatyr72]

anyone knows the piano song in the last emperor movie that Pu Yi was singing ?? Please tell me

[MarkLindenOMeara]

To read his story read Twilight in the Forbidden City - republished in 2008 and available at Amazon.com !

[fusshia]

@fisteberg yeaaaaah. He didn't have power either.