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Person1883 – 1951
Zaifeng
Also called: Prince Chun, Tsai-feng
Younger brother of the Guangxu Emperor and father of the last emperor Puyi (Prince Chun), regent from 1908, who dismissed Yuan Shikai and formed the “royal cabinet”
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On 14 November 1908 the captive Guangxu Emperor died, and the next day Cixi. The two-year-old Puyi took the throne as the Xuantong Emperor with his father Zaifeng as regent, who the next year dismissed Yuan Shikai.
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Guangxu Emperor1871 – 1908Eleventh Qing emperor (r. 1875–1908) who backed Kang Youwei’s reforms but was confined after the coup of 1898
Empress Dowager Cixi1835 – 1908Consort of the Xianfeng Emperor and mother of the Tongzhi Emperor who held real power in Qing China for nearly half a century and crushed the 1898 reforms
Puyi1906 – 1967Last emperor of the Qing as the Xuantong Emperor (r. 1908–1912), later installed by Japan as chief executive (1932) and emperor (1934–1945) of Manchukuo
Yuan Shikai1859 – 1916Late-Qing master of the Beiyang Army who meddled in Joseon affairs after the 1882 Imo Incident; in the 1911 Revolution he secured the emperor’s abdication and became president of the Republic, but his bid to make himself emperor failed
Themes this person appears in
- The 1911 Revolution1894 – 1916
From the Revive China Society to the death of Yuan Shikai — twenty-two years in which, amid debt and failed reform, revolutionaries and the New Army brought down the Qing and founded Asia’s first republic, which passed through dictatorship and a short-lived monarchy into the age of the warlords