At last, in 1950, Pu Yi was forced to leave his comfortable Russian Village and return to China, where he was sent at once to a prison camp. He remained there for 9 years.
In December of 1959, he was finally released. He was in his fifties.
In 1962, Pu Yi got married a Communist Party member, Li Shu-Hsien. It was the first time in history that a Manchu emperor married a Chinese woman.
In 1967, Pu Yi died of cancer. The official report of his death said that he had suffered from cancer of the kidney, uremia, and anemic heart disease.
Source: Brackman 1975 Pu Yi spent nine years, from 1959 to 1959, in a Chinese Communist jail. In prison, he did menial labor. |
Source: Ching Hshuan-t'ung 1965 |
Source: Ching Hshuan-t'ung 1965 Setting out to work in the mornig with his wife Li Shu-hsien |