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Sun Yat-Sen
Sun Yat-Sen becomes the first president of the Republic of China
overtaking Puyi, the last chinese Emperor. He is considered one of the greatest leaders of modern China. -
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The leaders of China from 1911-1949
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Yuan Shikai
The second president took part in the events leading up to the abdication of the last emperor Puyi. -
Li Yuanhong
He stopped china from joining world war 2. He conflicted greatly over Duan's decision to cut ties with Germany. Li forced Duan to resign on May 23,1917 -
Feng Guozhang
He was a key Beiyang Army general and politician in early republican China -
Xu Shichang
He was also the only non-acting president of the Beiyang government to be a civilian. -
Zhou Ziqi
He helped leak information about Twenty-One Demands of the Empire of Japan to the media -
Li Yuanhong
He stopped china from joining world war 2. He conflicted greatly over Duan's decision to cut ties with Germany. Li forced Duan to resign on May 23,1917 -
Gao Lingwei
In March 1922 Gao Lingwei was awarded the First Class Wenfu he becomes president in 1923 -
Cao Kun
Admired by Yuan, he managed to rise very quickly.He was made a general in the Beiyang Army and led the Zhili clique after the death of Feng Guozhang -
Huang Fu
He was part of China's delegation to the Washington Naval Conference which secured the Beiyang government's greatest diplomatic triumph, the return of Shandong.He became president in 1924 -
Duran Qirui
. He was arguably the most powerful man in China from 1916 to 1920. -
Duran Qirui
. He was arguably the most powerful man in China from 1916 to 1920. -
Hu Weide,Yan Huiqing,Du Xigui
-Hu Weide served as ambassador to Russia, Japan, and France and was a rival of Wu Tingfang
-Yan Huiqing was china's first ambassador to the Soviet Union
-Du Xigui graduated from Nanjing's naval college in 1902 -
Gu Weijun
is the first and only Chinese head of state known to use a Western name publicly. -
Zhang Zuolin
During the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, some military commanders wanted to declare independence for Manchuria, but the pro-Manchu governor used Zhang's regiment to set up a "Manchurian People's Peacekeeping Council", -
Chiang Kai-shek
He became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy, and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925. In 1926, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify the country, becoming China's nominal leader -
Lin Sen
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria prevented the civil war from erupting, however it did cause Chiang Kai-shek to resign on December 15. Lin was appointed in his place as acting president and confirmed as president on January 1, 1932 -
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun Yat-sen and some other members of the KMT embraced in favor of a nationalist authoritarian government. -
Mao Zedong
After he won the chinese civil war in 1948 he procceded to lead the People's Republic of China. Nationwide political campaigns led by Mao, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are often considered catastrophic failures; while his rule is believed to have caused the deaths of 40 to 70 million people. He died in Beijing September 9, 1976.
