PRESENT TO YOU BY: Foundation in Natural and Built Environment (FNBE) July 2013 School of Architecture, Building and Design (SABD) Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus (TULC) A dramatic history of PuYi, the last emperor of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic of China. ~ Martin H. Booda ABSTRACT THE LAST EMPEROR