Pujie

Pujie
Pujie wearing military dress, c.1930-1940
Head of the House of Aisin-Gioro
Period17 October 1967 – 28 February 1994
PredecessorPuyi
SuccessorJin Youzhi
Born(1907-04-16)16 April 1907
Prince Chun Mansion, Peking, Qing dynasty
Died28 February 1994(1994-02-28) (aged 86)
Beijing, China
Burial
Nagayama Shrine, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Beijing, China
Consorts
Tang Shixia
(m. 1924; div. 1928)
    (m. 1937; died 1987)
    IssueHuisheng
    Husheng
    Names
    Aisin-Gioro Pujie
    (愛新覺羅 溥傑)
    HouseAisin-Gioro
    FatherZaifeng, Prince Chun of the First Rank
    MotherYoulan
    Military career
    Allegiance Manchukuo
    Branch Manchukuo Imperial Guards
    Pujie
    Chinese name
    Traditional Chinese溥傑
    Simplified Chinese溥杰
    Transcriptions
    Standard Mandarin
    Hanyu PinyinPǔjié
    Bopomofoㄆㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄝˊ
    Wade–GilesP'u³-chieh²
    Tongyong PinyinPǔ-jié
    IPA[pʰù.tɕjě]
    Junzhi
    (courtesy name)
    Chinese俊之
    Transcriptions
    Standard Mandarin
    Hanyu PinyinJùnzhī
    Bopomofoㄐㄩㄣˋ ㄓ
    Wade–GilesChün⁴-chih¹
    Tongyong PinyinJyùn-jhih
    IPA[tɕŷn.ʈʂɻ̩́]
    Bingfan
    (art name)
    Chinese秉藩
    Transcriptions
    Standard Mandarin
    Hanyu PinyinBǐngfān
    Bopomofoㄅㄧㄥˇ ㄈㄢ
    Wade–GilesPing³-fan¹
    Tongyong PinyinBǐng-fan
    IPA[pìŋ.fán]
    Japanese name
    Kanji溥傑
    Hiraganaふけつ
    Katakanaフケツ
    Transcriptions
    Kunrei-shikiHuketu

    Pujie (Chinese: ; 16 April 1907 – 28 February 1994) was a Qing dynasty imperial prince of the Aisin-Gioro. Pujie was the younger brother of Puyi, the last Emperor of China. After the fall of the Qing dynasty, Pujie went to Japan, where he was educated and married to Hiro Saga, a Japanese noblewoman. In 1937, he moved to Manchukuo, where his brother ruled as Emperor under varying degrees of Japanese control during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). After the war ended, Pujie was captured by Soviet forces, held in Soviet prison camps for five years, and then extradited back to the People's Republic of China, where he was incarcerated for about 10 years in the Fushun War Criminals Management Centre. He was later pardoned and released from prison by the Chinese government, after which he remained in Beijing where he joined the Communist Party and served in a number of positions in the party until his death in 1994.