BEIJING: The brother of China’s last emperor—who was pushed off the throne in 1912, ending the Qing dynasty—has died in Beijing at the age of 96, state media reported.

Puren was the youngest sibling of the final Qing monarch Puyi, a child-ruler portrayed in the Bernardo Bertolucci film “The Last Emperor”.

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