{"id":73683,"date":"2025-08-16T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73683\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:40:06","slug":"today-in-history-august-17-emperor-who-made-certain-thoughts-a-crime-flees-for-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73683\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History &#8211; August 17: Emperor who made certain thoughts a crime flees for his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last emperor of China left his throne for the third and final time on August 17, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Puyi had been installed as the Emperor of Manchukuo, a puppet state of Japan located in China&#8217;s north, in 1934.<\/p>\n<p>Though ostensibly the ruler of the region, Puyi had little control or influence.<\/p>\n<p>He did however introduce a law criminalising certain thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>The population was told if they thought about Chinese nationalism or dissent from the Manchukuo regime, they could be punished severely.<\/p>\n<p>But after Japan surrendered to the Allies the day before, Puyi renounced his throne and attempted to flee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last emperor of China left his throne for the third and final time on August 17, 1945.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-73683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}