Orders, Decorations and Medals

China, International Plague Conference Memorial, Mukden (Ta Ching Empire 1908-12), silver medal, good very fine and very rare £200-300

Hsuan Tung was the last Emperor of the Ta Ching dynasty in China. He was born in February 1906 and succeeded to the throne at the age of three in November 1908. He reigned under a regency for three years but in February 1912 was forced to abdicate the throne. In March 1932 he was installed as President, and from 1934 to 1945 was Emperor of Manchukuo under the assumed name of Kang-te. He was taken prisoner by the Russians in August 1945 and returned to China as a war criminal in 1950. He was pardoned in 1959 and went to live in Peking where he worked in the repair shop of a botanical garden. He died in Peking in 1967.