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Wanrong (Chinese: 婉容; 13 November 1906 – 20 June 1946), of the Manchu Plain White Banner Gobulo clan, was the wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China. She is sometimes anachronistically called the Xuantong Empress , referring to Puyi's era name .
The Empress Wanrong was firmly against Puyi's plans to go to Manchuria, which she called treason, and for a moment Puyi hesitated, leading Doihara to send for Puyi's cousin, the very pro-Japanese Yoshiko Kawashima (also known as "Eastern Jewel", Dongzhen), to visit him to change his mind. Yoshiko, a strong-willed, flamboyant, openly bisexual ...
Wanrong Puyi's second choice for his wife was Wanrong, a Daur. She married Puyi in 1922 and became his Empress. Her father, Rong Yuan (榮源), was a Minister of Domestic Affairs. She was considered beautiful and came from a wealthy family. By Puyi's own account, he abandoned Wanrong in the bridal chamber and went back to his own room. [16]
The screen icon behind characters including the doomed empress Wanrong and enigmatic Josie Packard reflects on her storied four-decade career and her favorite role she's ever played.
She returned to China, was admitted to the Forbidden City and became Wanrong's tutor. [2] Wanrong married Puyi in December 1922 and became the last empress of China. Ingram began teaching Wanrong English in 1922, shortly before the marriage [3] and recalled the yellow satin robe Wanrong wore on her wedding day. Ingram noted: "The boy Emperor ...
Tonghua, being the local transport hub, had a large influx of refugees in 1945.The first instance of violence (the Shosankoku incident []) was reported 13 August 1945, when a train, filled with Japanese civilian refugees, was stopped at an elevated track near the tunnel entrance, and the Japanese women were gang-raped by the locals after the train security guards were killed.
The Last Empress, 1987 Chinese film starring Pan Hong as Empress Wanrong; The Last Empress, 1995 musical about Empress Myeongseong of Korea; The Last Empress, 2007 historical novel by Anchee Min on the Empress Dowager Cixi of China; The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China, 2009 biography of Soong May-ling; The ...
Yoshiko Kawashima (川島 芳子, Kawashima Yoshiko, 24 May 1907 – 25 March 1948), born Aisin Gioro Xianyu, was a Qing dynasty princess of the Aisin-Gioro clan. She was raised in Japan and served as a spy for the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War.