Cultural China Season 2 Episode 8 Emperors in Chinese Histroy 8
- June 1, 2007
- 40 min
The Emperor of China (Chinese: 皇帝; pinyin: About this sound Huángdì) was the sovereign of Imperial China reigning between the founding of the Qin dynasty that unified China in 221 BC, until the abdication of Puyi in 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution and the establishment of the Republic of China. The emperor was also referred to as the "Son of Heaven" (Chinese: 天子; pinyin: tiānzǐ),