#empress xiaokemin

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Empress Wanrong (13 November 1906 20 June 1946), posthumously known as Empress Xiaokemin, was the Empress Consort of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China ...

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Wanrong, Empress Xiaokemin | ph. unknown (Ullstein photo studio) | c. 1934

[serafino-finasero]

Joan Chen as Empress Wanrong / Xiaokemin in a still from the British-Italian biographical drama film The Last Emperor (1987, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci) | Columbia Pictures

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Empress Wanrong of China, also known as Xuantong Empress of the Manchu Plain White Banner Gobulo clan, was the wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last Emperor of China. She was titular Empress consort of the Qing dynasty from 1922 until abolition of the monarchy in 1924.

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Lady Gobulo, Empress Xiaokemin (13 November 1906 – 20 June 1946), better known as Empress Wanrong, was the empress of Puyi, the last Emperor of China and final ruler of the Qing Dynasty. She became empress of the puppet state of Manchukuo when Puyi was installed as its nominal ruler during the Second Sino-Japanese War. {wikipedia}

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Empress Xiaokemin (Wan Rong,) last Qing empress of China. She was married at 16 to Puyi, the final emperor in the Qing dynasty, and would later become the empress of the puppet state Manchukuo in the 1930s and 1940s. She was an educated woman who was fluent in English and loved to write letters to her friends, read mystery novels, dabble in photography, and play the piano. She lived a very bizarre and cloistered existence controlled by the Japanese in Manchukuo and turned to opium to dull the loneliness and pain of her husband's rejection. She died as a political prisoner at 39. This photo is of her on her wedding day, when she was really a beautiful girl.