"Ch'ing"
interesting spelling
There were signs that he may not have been a capable leader but we cannot easily know how he would have turned out.A victory over Japan could keep it going some more years, maybe even until Puji is old enough to ascend the throne, but would that be enough to stabilize it? I have my doubts.
Dont know about that... most of his life he spent as a drugged up prisoner with foreign guards close by to do unpleasant things to him when necessary, anyone would go nuts living like that, it's rather miraculous that he survived that long. By the standards of Chinese emperors he looks fairly normal... the bad ones used to do stuff like burry themselves with hundreds of living concubines or murder the children of officials and force them to eat them in the imperial court.There were signs that he may not have been a capable leader but we cannot easily know how he would have turned out.
The further the dynasty went on, the worse these consequences of imperial upbringing would be and Puyi's upbringing was, as you say, severely out of touch. Though he may or may not have turned out a tad stronger in character than some before him, he never displayed any exceptional qualities that might have helped him to rise above the limitations imposed upon him and set the Qing on a course that might allow them to continue much farther than an additional five to ten years into the 20th century.Dont know about that... most of his life he spent as a drugged up prisoner with foreign guards close by to do unpleasant things to him when necessary, anyone would go nuts living like that, it's rather miraculous that he survived that long. By the standards of Chinese emperors he looks fairly normal... the bad ones used to do stuff like burry themselves with hundreds of living concubines or murder the children of officials and force them to eat them in the imperial court.