Yuzhan

Yuzhan
Prince Gong of the First Rank (恭親王)
Prince Gong of the First Rank of the Qing Dynasty
	1936 - 1945
Predecessor	Puwei
Successor	(None. Title abolished.)
Full name
Aisin-Gioro Yuzhan (愛新覺羅·毓嶦)
House	House of Aisin-Gioro
Father	Puwei
Born	1923 (age 88–89) Dalian, Liaoning, China

Yuzhan
Traditional Chinese	毓嶦
Simplified Chinese	毓嶦
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Yùzhān

Yuzhan (born 1923), style name Jungu (君固), is a calligrapher and member of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan, the ruling house of the Qing Dynasty. He was the seventh son of Puwei (溥偉) and a great-grandson of Yixin, Prince Gong.

Yuzhan was born in Dalian, Liaoning in 1923. He had a keen interest in calligraphy and learned the style of the Qing imperial clan. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Yuzhan and his father Puwei served in the puppet state of Manchukuo, where China's last emperor Puyi was installed by the Japanese as a nominal ruler. Puyi later referred to Yuzhan as "Xiaogu" (小固) in his autobiography. Yuzhan inherited his father's title of "Prince Gong of the First Rank" (恭親王) after the latter's death in 1936. At the end of the war in 1945, Yuzhan was captured by Soviet forces and extradited to the War Criminals Management Centre in Fushun, Liaoning. Yuzhan was released four years later in 1949.

Yuzhan was sent to do forced labour during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) under the Communist regime. He is currently a member of many calligraphy societies in China and has produced many works. He specialises in the semi-cursive and cursive scripts.

See also

• Qing Dynasty nobility
• Ranks of Imperial Consorts in China#Qing

References

Yuzhan Qing Dynasty Born: 1923
Chinese nobility
Preceded by Puwei	Prince Gong 1936-1945	Title abolished