The central narrative follows Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the final ruler of the Qing Dynasty, through a series of "imprisonments". Francis Academic Press The Gilded Cage
Born on February 7, 1906, Puyi was chosen by the dying Empress Dowager Cixi to succeed his uncle, the Guangxu Emperor. At just two years and ten months old, he was forcibly removed from his family and taken to the Forbidden City in Beijing. The Last Emperor
While John Lone and the child actor Richard Vuu deliver haunting performances as the younger Pu Yi, the film’s emotional anchor is the adult emperor played by the unknown (at the time) Taiwanese actor, Zun Fu. The central narrative follows Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the final