ABSTRACT
Aixinjueluo Pujie: so reads in hanyu pinyin the Manchu name of the brother of China's last emperor, Xuan Tong. Although his father was the Prince Regent, the family continued to live outside the Forbidden City. Puyi wrenched himself free of the Nei Wu Fu eventually in 1924 only to become the political plaything of the Japanese who guaranteed him safety in their concession in Tianjin. To resume Pujie's story: he and his brother, attempting a flight to Japan when the Japanese were defeated in 1945, fell into Russian hands and were taken off to the Soviet Union for five years. Pujie spoke of the skilled medical treatment they received and the special food rations. The Fushun prison and the centre where they had been detained in the Soviet Union differed markedly in style. Pujie's release from prison in 1960 was marked by considerable assistance in rehabilitation.
