Sunday Feature: The Shadow of the Emperor

One hundred years after the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the abdication of the last emperor in China, Isabel Hilton asks how China coped with the collapse and whether there was any lingering legacy. After living under the comparative stability of an Imperial system for so long she explains what happened when the young Emperor, Puyi, was forced to stand down. Isabel reports from Beijing on how China set about finding a new system to govern, whether the country has fully recovered from the trauma of this rupture from such an ancient past and if it has it finally settled on its replacement