This palace site was associated with Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing dynasty, after he became head of the Japanese-backed state of Manchukuo and later took the title of emperor. Its buildings did not all begin as an imperial residence: some were adapted for government business and ceremony, while others served as domestic or combined living, office and leisure spaces. Today they form a museum and historical site. Reading the palace room by room makes the political arrangement more legible than treating it as a smaller copy of the Qing imperial courts.
A gray building with yellow-tiled roofs and broad windows, pictured on the provincial government’s page about the Museum of the Imperial Palace of Manchukuo in Changchun. The source does not identify the hall.
Puyi’s former palace arranged authority across a reused salt office, private quarters and halls that combined political work and leisure. The complex’s rooms reveal how a Japanese-backed regime staged its court in Changchun.