Museum of Imperial Palace of Manchu State
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Northeast China (东北) » Jilin (吉林) » Changchun (长春) » Museum of Imperial Palace of Manchu State (Weimanhuanggongbowuyuan, 伪满皇宫博物院)Museum of Imperial Palace of Manchu State (Weimanhuanggongbowuyuan, 伪满皇宫博物院) | |
| Address: | No. 5, Guangfu North Road, Changchun, Jilin |
| Phone: | 0431-2882362 |
| Web site: | http://www.wmhg.com.cn |
| Price Range: | 80RMB ~ 80RMB |
| Hours: | Summer：8：30——18：00（16：20 stop selling ticket） winter：8：30——17：00（15：50 stop selling ticket） |
| Level: | AAAAA |
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Museum of Imperial Palace of Manchu State, also known as the Puppet Emperor's Palace, was the official residence of China's last emperor Puyi from 1932 to 1945. The palace was created by the Imperial Japanese Army for Puyi to live in as the nominal head of the newly established state of Manchukuo. The Japanese used Puyi to legitimize their claim to the territory of Northeast China, and then the rest of the country.
The palace is located in the northeastern corner of Changchun, and was not only an open prison for the young Puyi, but also the site of the "central government" of the Manchukuo state. Like the life of the last emperor, the remains of the palace today are of decaying sadness. The gardens and courtyards are all fairly badly maintained. Today the palace serves as a museum, wax works and testament to the evils perpetrated by the Japanese in their long reign in north China.
The structure is a miniature of the emperor's exiled home, the Forbidden City in Beijing. It is a complex composed of several buildings in a variety of styles, including the architectures of Chinese, Japanese, and European. The palace was divided into front court and back court: the front palace was used for administrative purposes and the rear palace as the royal residence. The largest and most impressive of the buildings, the Tonde Palace has the most luxurious interior decoration, but was not lived in by the emperor since he believed it to be bugged. The Qianming Building once served as Puyi's office building, but now houses the throne, a variety of gimmicky wax models of Puyi, one of his wives and others, and documents of his life, from stately childhood to the Japanese pawn.
The rear palace gives visitors a glimpse of the grandness that was the facade of life here: a swimming pool, a tennis court, a few gardens, courtyards and even a bomb shelter, are the accounts of the emperors empty life (a life that is chronicled within on diary pages that are attached to the wall). There are also exhibitions here to the atrocities that the Japanese manufactured in their inhumane reign in northeast China. This is struck home with images of the war, including those concerning the Japanese armies Unit 731 Germ Warfare Experimental Base, and various torture equipment. The captions here are in Chinese, although most of the pictures speak for themselves. Visitors are made to wear "shower caps" on their shoes to protect the original carpet.
The story of Puyi, the last emperor of China, is a sad tale of political intrigue, a story that was played out in one of China's most volatile periods of history. Puyi, manipulated from cradle to grave, was the last of the Qing Dynasty (1644- 1911) line, given power by the devious Empress Dowager Cixi. He ascended the throne at the age of eight.
His mettle as a true emperor was never to be tested however, as the 1911 Republican Revolution, led by the revered Sun Yatsen (Sun Zhongshan), removed the child-emperor from his post in the same year as his coronation. After remaining in the Forbidden City for some years, living the life of a breathing relic, he was expelled by the Nationalist Party for his less than revolutionary past. Given "immunity" by the Japanese, the young child was moved to his new residence in Jilin Province.
From 1932 to 1945, Puyi was resident, more or less involuntarily, in the Puppet Emperor's Palace. His residence here came to an end with the Communist victory, when the emperor was arrested and sentenced to reform and re-education in the communist style, even being exiled to the Soviet Union for a time. Puyi ended his sad life as a gardener, probably happy for once to be beholden to few men.
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Public bus lines #80, #114, #225, #256, #264, #276, #287 stop by this museum.
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