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I think the main thing is that it's a joke, and Puyi was still nominally a little emperor even though you are of course correct that he was just a puppet.
Puyi was a nominal figurehead of the puppet state Manchukuo put up by the Japanese during the occupation, which is in the northeast (Manchuria).
The rest of China had been a Republic since 1911. The point being that there was a 40-year gap between the fall of Qing and the communist taking power. By 1949, nobody gave a damn about the Qing empire, as opposed to the Bolshevik revolution when collective memory of living under the Tsarist rule was still fresh in people’s mind.