The last emperor of China was a Japanese puppet. Henry Pu Yi, the last emperor of China from 1908 to 1912, became regent of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Enthroned when Emperor Hsüan-T’ung was three years old, he was forced to abdicate four years later by Sun Yat-sen’s republican revolution. He took the name Henry and continued to live in Beijing’s Forbidden City until 1924, when he was exiled. He settled in Japanese-occupied Tianjin, where he lived until 1932, when he was installed as the puppet leader of the state of Manchukuo. In 1934, he became K’ang Te, Emperor of Manchukuo, holding the title until his capture by the Soviets at the end of World War II. In 1950, Pu Yi returned to China and was held prisoner, until Mao Zedong granted him amnesty in 1959. Once free, he found work in a Beijing machine shop.
