After the death of the last emperor Puyi, his wife Li Shuxian fought a lawsuit for 10 years to monopolize Puyi's inheritance
"When a person is unlucky to a certain extent, what else in the world can hit him?"
Before I didn't know Puyi, I'm afraid many people didn't expect that a person could actually cross from feudal society to modern society, from emperor status to war criminal status, and then become an ordinary citizen, he is Ai Xin Jueluo Puyi, the last emperor of China's feudal dynasty.
Puyi can be said to be a lucky person, in the late Qing Dynasty, born in the court, absolutely can be regarded as the happiest group of people in the world, because in the late Qing Dynasty, all ordinary Chinese people were almost suffering greatly, while feeling the fear of war, but also facing the exploitation of the imperial court, if an ordinary person can farm at home until he dies, then his life is already very happy.
What makes people sad is that this living situation is the real appearance of most people in the late Qing Dynasty.
It was not until 1945, after the surrender of Japan, that Puyi's pseudo-Manchuria, which had been proclaimed emperor for the second time, collapsed in an instant, and Puyi became a war criminal in 1950, and then he stayed in the war criminals camp for nine years, until he was pardoned in 1959, and at that moment he became an ordinary citizen - Ai Xin Jue luo Puyi.
Then, Puyi also met the last wife in his life, Li Shuxian, but what makes people hard to say is that after Puyi's death, Li Shuxian fought a lawsuit with Puyi's family for 10 years in order to get Puyi's inheritance.
Li Shuxian is Puyi's fifth wife, and when she met Puyi, Li Shuxian was already a 37-year-old middle-aged woman with two failed marriages before.
And Puyi knew Li Shuxian is also purely accidental, when Puyi's living conditions were very lonely, of course, there are many people who want to introduce a wife to Puyi, Puyi did not object to this, but Puyi heard that the woman was the descendant of the nobles of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi's interaction with them suddenly stopped.
Everyone also saw it at that time, Puyi at this time, very resistant to people related to the Qing, so someone introduced Li Shuxian to Puyi, when Puyi heard that Li Shuxian was a nurse, he immediately became interested, and finally the two were married, but the two only got along for about five years, and Puyi died in 1967.
What Li Shuxian and Puyi did not expect was that the memoir "The First Half of My Life" written by Puyi in the management of war criminals, just after Puyi's death, triggered a lot of people's robbery, and once became the best-selling book in the bookstore, after all, Puyi's "China's last emperor" gimmick is too eye-catching.
However, at this time, there was a difficult thing to reconcile, that is, the royalties of "The First Half of My Life", and there was a situation that the owner was difficult to recognize.
Some people will feel that Li Shuxian is Puyi's widow, this royalty should be inherited by her, and some people feel that the main writer of "The First Half of My Life" is not Puyi, but a person named Li Wenda, so strictly speaking, Li Shuxian is not the heir to this royalty.
There is also a saying that "The First Half of My Life" is publicized in the name of Puyi, why can't Puyi's family inherit the royalties?
In the end, this matter ended with Li Shuxian and Li Wenda's royalties one and a half.
But the issue of Puyi's legacy is not over, until 1984, Li Wenda sold the film rights of "The First Half of My Life", followed by the "Last Emperor" that won the Oscar award, Li Shuxian heard about this matter, immediately sued Li Wenda in court, this lawsuit was fought for more than ten years, and finally in 1996, Li Shuxian got the final compensation, but Li Shuxian died in 1997 not long after getting this compensation.
It is not difficult to find that Li Shuxian is largely in order to get back Puyi's justice, but what makes people difficult to say is that the copyright ownership of "The First Half of My Life" is still inconclusive, the biggest reason is that Puyi has no immediate family, and his relatives have hardly appeared in the book "My First Half of Life".
However, there is only one thing that this understanding of Puyi needs to be based on respect, rather than holding a curious mentality.