Pujie's status as Puyi's heir was widely acknowledged:
• Schmetzer, Uli, "Emperor-in-waiting recalls bygone age", Chicago Tribune, Oct. 25, 1992. "The heir to China`s throne [Pujie] lives in an old house with a courtyard in which the last chrysanthemums of fall sprout amid a heap of coal briquettes collected for the winter."
• "Pu Jie, 87, Dies, Ending Dynasty of the Manchus", New York Times, ngày 2 tháng 3 năm 1994. "If Japan had won the war, Pu Jie could have become Emperor of China."
• Song, Yuwu, Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China, 2014, McFarland and Co., p. 6. "The younger brother of Pu Yi (the Emperor Xuantong) Pu Jie was technically head of the Imperial Qing Dynasty from the death of his brother in 1967 until his own death in 1994."
The Manchoukuo Year Book 1941, "Text of the Law Governing Succession to the Imperial Throne", ngày 1 tháng 3 năm 1937, p. 905, Tōa Keizai Chōsakyoku (Japan).
• "The Imperial Throne of Manchoukuo shall be succeeded to by male descendants in the male line of His Majesty the Emperor for ages to come" (Article 1).
• "In the absence of sons or descendants, the brothers of the reigning emperor, borne of the same mother, and their male-line descendants succeed according to age" (Article 5).
• "Among the Imperial brothers and the remoter Imperial relations, precedence shall be given, in the same degree, to the descendants of full blood over those of half blood" (Article 8).
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Pujie's status as Puyi's heir was widely acknowledged:
• Schmetzer, Uli, "Emperor-in-waiting recalls bygone age", Chicago Tribune, Oct. 25, 1992. "The heir to China`s throne [Pujie] lives in an old house with a courtyard in which the last chrysanthemums of fall sprout amid a heap of coal briquettes collected for the winter."
• "Pu Jie, 87, Dies, Ending Dynasty of the Manchus", New York Times, ngày 2 tháng 3 năm 1994. "If Japan had won the war, Pu Jie could have become Emperor of China."
• Song, Yuwu, Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China, 2014, McFarland and Co., p. 6. "The younger brother of Pu Yi (the Emperor Xuantong) Pu Jie was technically head of the Imperial Qing Dynasty from the death of his brother in 1967 until his own death in 1994."
