Puppet Emperor's Palace
» Changchun, Ji Lin

伪满洲国皇宫

Puppet Emperor's Palace is the living palace of last emperor, who lived here from 1932 to 1945. After the renovation of the palace, it has become a showcase and research center on the history and culture of the puppet state. In addition, the race course, swimming pool and rockery that originally existed in the palace have been rebuilt in line with Manchurian flavor to attract more tourists.

Story of the last emperor of China

The story of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, is a sad tale of political intrigue, a story that was played out in one of China's most explosive periods of history. Pu Yi, manipulated from cradle to grave, was the last of the Qing dynasty line, given power by the devious Empress Dowager Cixi. He ascended the throne at the age of 8.

His nature as a true emperor was never to be tested however, as the 1911 Republican Revolution, led by the revered Sun Yat-sen, removed the child-emperor from his post in the same year as his coronation. After remaining in the Forbidden City for some years, living the life of a breathing relic, he was expelled by the Nationalist Party (Guomindang) for his less than revolutionary past. Given "immunity" by the Japanese, the young child was moved to his new residence in Jilin Province.

From 1932 to 1945, Pu Yi was resident, more or less involuntarily, in the Puppet Emperor's Palace (Weihuang gong). He stayed here as nominal head of the newly established state of Manchukuo, established as a way for the Japanese to try to legitimize their claim to the territory of Dongbei (northeastern China), and then the rest of the country.

How came the palace

Puppet Emperor's Palace is the living palace of last emperor, Aisin-gioro Pu Yi and his family from 1932 to 1945. In 1932, the Japanese Army, which then occupied the whole of Northeast China, founded a puppet regime in the former Jilin-Helongjiang Exclusive Salt Transportation Bureau, (the present site of the palace) to consolidate its rule over the region. Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911) dethroned in 1912, became the puppet emperor of the regime with the help of Japanese imperialists.

Buildings in the palace

The palace itself is a miniature of the emperor's exiled home, the Forbidden City in Beijing. Encompassing 137,000 square meters, the palace was composed of 10 buildings in a variety of taste and style, including architecture of Chinese, Japanese, and European form. As the main buildings used for dealing with official affairs, an imperial garden, a tennis court, a swimming pool, dinning halls as well as painting and calligraphy halls were used at the time.

Layout

The palace can be divided into two parts: the front palace for administrative purposes and the rear palace for residence.

The largest and most impressive of the buildings, the Tonde Palace was not lived in by the emperor since he believed it to be bugged. The best of the blocks is the Qian Ming Building which houses the throne, a variety of gimmicky wax models of Pu Yi, one of his wives and others, and documents of his life, from stately childhood to Japanese pawn.

The rear palace gives visitors a glimpse of the grandness that was the facade of life here: a swimming pool, a tennis court, a few gardens, courtyards and even a bomb shelter are the accoutrements of the emperor's empty life (a life that is chronicled within on diary pages that are attached to the wall).

Exhibitions

There are also exhibitions here to the atrocities that the Japanese manufactured in their inhumane reign in northeast China. This is struck home with images of the war, including those concerning the Japanese armies Unit 731 Germ Warfare Experimental Base, and various torture equipment. The captions here are in Chinese, although most of the pictures speak for themselves. Visitors are made to wear "shower caps" on their shoes to protect the original carpet.

When to visit

Opening Hours: 9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.

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Located at the northeast corner of Changchun, Puppet Emperor's Palace was the palace of Pu Yi, the puppet emperor of so - called Manchuria and the last emperor of Qing Dynasty.



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