biography
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Yuan Shikai
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also spelled Yuan Shih-k'ai
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pronunciation:
[yüan sheekiy]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1859–1916)
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| biography:
| Chinese soldier, statesman, and president (1912–16), born in Xiancheng, Henan, NC China. He served in the army and became imperial adviser, minister in Korea (1885–94), and Governor of Shantung (1900). Banished after the death of his patron, the Empress Dowager Ci-Xi (1908), he was recalled after the successful Wuhan nationalist rising in 1911, and became the first President of China in 1912. He lost support by procuring the murder of the parliamentary leader of the Nationalists, accepting Japan's Twenty-One Demands of 1915, and proclaiming himself emperor (1915), and was overthrown in a Japanese-backed rebellion. |
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