Who was the last Chinese emperor to reside in the Forbidden City?

The Forbidden City is a palace complex in central Beijing, China that served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government for almost 500 years. The former Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty, the years 1420 to 1912, it now houses the Palace Museum. In 1987 the Forbidden City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

After being the home of 24 emperors, the Forbidden City ceased being the political center of China in 1912 with the abdication of Puyi, the last Emperor of China. Puyi succeeded to the Manchu throne at the age of three, when his uncle, the Guangxu emperor, died on November 14, 1908. He reigned under a regency for three years, and then on February 12, 1912, in response to the Republican Revolution of the previous year, he was forced to abdicate, ending the 267-year Qing rule of China and the 2,000-year-old imperial system.

In 1945 Puyi was taken prisoner by the Russians and returned to China for trial as a war criminal in 1950. He was pardoned in 1959 and went again to live in Beijing, where he first worked in the mechanical repair shop of a botanical garden and later became a researcher in the institute of literature and history under the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. His autobiography, "From Emperor to Citizen", was published in English in 1964–65, and he was the subject of the 1987 biopic "The Last Emperor".