Good evening everyone, Lhasa Montgomery here once again with another CHP episode.

That 10-part warlord series is now behind us. Believe it or not, our story today

overlaps a good part of the warlord era so we're still in the first

half of the 20th century one last topic from these modern times and then we'll go

leap back into something a little more

b. C. Eish. I of course have always known about today's topic but I never wrote

her down until recently when someone among my

patreon supporters suggested it.

Today's topic, Kawashima Yoshko,

and the bigger picture of the dramatic story

of the whole deposed Ching Royal Family

isn't anything that tilted the balance of history.

This Rump Royal Court represented the residual detritus of the once great Ching Dynasty.

And like a lot of Royals who found themselves in similar circumstances,

all they could do was hold on tight and try to survive the impact. Most all of them blended into obscurity and we hardly

remember their names. If not for Bernardo Bertelucci and his 1987 film that won the best

picture Oscar in 88, we might not even remember the last emperor,

Poohi. These Manchu Ching Royals who had to leave the safety and comfort to the

forbidden city and go out into the world to fend for themselves.

They left behind quite a few stories.

Bertalucci in his film, told the Hollywood version of Puyi.

Kawashima Yoshiko, this is another one of those stories from that era in China

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