Leaders of China

[Tsao]

Should be pretty self-evident from the title. List the emperors/presidents/premiers/head of states of China, starting with a list from the founding of the Republic in 1912.

Rules:

1. Be plausible
2. List only one president at a time.
3. Do not make up fake Chinese names (it will be fairly easy to tell)

I will begin.

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.

[Francisco Cojuanco]

Should be pretty self-evident from the title. List the emperors/presidents/premiers/head of states of China, starting with a list from the founding of the Republic in 1912.

Rules:

1. Be plausible
2. List only one president at a time.
3. Do not make up fake Chinese names (it will be fairly easy to tell)

I will begin.

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]

(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.

[Tony]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.

[Tsao]

1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]


[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by _______ _______, and was forced to flee to Japan.

[Tony]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.

[Francisco Cojuanco]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940)[4]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election). His administration, while providing a measure of political and economic stability not known for years, was hopelessly corrupt, with a disproportionate amount of the new money in the economy flowing into the hands of the President's inner circle, Shanghai crime gangs, and Japanese industralists.

[Baconheimer]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940)[4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).

[Makemakean]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.

[Francisco Cojuanco]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]
(1963-1972)--Chen Gongbo--(Social Democrat) [6]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.
[6] Vice-President under Zhang Gongsun, and succeeded him upon the latter's death in 1963. Originally from the left-wing of the KMT, he founded the Social Democratic Party along with several ex-KMT leftists and former Communists. Winning reelection in 1964, his most notable and controversial policy was the so-called "two-child tax", a population-control measure imposing a tax on families with more than two children. He also reversed much of his predecessor's economic policies, instituting a protectionist regime and nationalizing the nation's mining and banking assets. This has led many people to suspect in a popular conspiracy theory that much of his Administration's officials were closet Communists attempting to look more respectable.

[EternalCynic]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]
(1963-1972)--Chen Gongbo--(Social Democrat) [6]
(1972)--Wang Rongde (Social Democrat) [7]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.
[6] Vice-President under Zhang Gongsun, and succeeded him upon the latter's death in 1963. Originally from the left-wing of the KMT, he founded the Social Democratic Party along with several ex-KMT leftists and former Communists. Winning reelection in 1964, his most notable and controversial policy was the so-called "two-child tax", a population-control measure imposing a tax on families with more than two children. He also reversed much of his predecessor's economic policies, instituting a protectionist regime and nationalizing the nation's mining and banking assets. This has led many people to suspect in a popular conspiracy theory that much of his Administration's officials were closet Communists attempting to look more respectable.
[7] Wang was Chen's VP and succeeded him when he died in rather mysterious circumstances while on a visit to Korea. Officially, he died of a heart attack, but to this day there are rumours Chen was taken out by disgruntled business tycoons or by a foreign intelligence agency in cahoots with them. Wang was never more than a placeholder President and served only until a special election was held.

[Francisco Cojuanco]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]
(1963-1972)--Chen Gongbo--(Social Democrat) [6]
(1972)--Wang Rongde (Social Democrat) [7]
(1972-1975)--Jiang Jieshi--(Kuomintang) [8]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.
[6] Vice-President under Zhang Gongsun, and succeeded him upon the latter's death in 1963. Originally from the left-wing of the KMT, he founded the Social Democratic Party along with several ex-KMT leftists and former Communists. Winning reelection in 1964, his most notable and controversial policy was the so-called "two-child tax", a population-control measure imposing a tax on families with more than two children. He also reversed much of his predecessor's economic policies, instituting a protectionist regime and nationalizing the nation's mining and banking assets. This has led many people to suspect in a popular conspiracy theory that much of his Administration's officials were closet Communists attempting to look more respectable.
[7] Wang was Chen's VP and succeeded him when he died in rather mysterious circumstances while on a visit to Korea. Officially, he died of a heart attack, but to this day there are rumours Chen was taken out by disgruntled business tycoons or by a foreign intelligence agency in cahoots with them. Wang was never more than a placeholder President and served only until a special election was held.
[8] Also known as Chiang Kai-Shek. Won the special election, and became China's first Kuomintang president since 1916. His tenure was marred by partisan deadlock against the National Assembly, controlled by the Social Democrats. Declared martial law in January 1975 in response to student protests across China, and suspended the National Assembly. However, he died of heart attack three months later.

[Tsao]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]
(1963-1972)--Chen Gongbo--(Social Democrat) [6]
(1972)--Wang Rongde (Social Democrat) [7]
(1972-1975)--Jiang Jieshi--(Kuomintang) [8]
(1975-1983)--Qiao Shi (Tuanjie Coalition) [7]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.
[6] Vice-President under Zhang Gongsun, and succeeded him upon the latter's death in 1963. Originally from the left-wing of the KMT, he founded the Social Democratic Party along with several ex-KMT leftists and former Communists. Winning reelection in 1964, his most notable and controversial policy was the so-called "two-child tax", a population-control measure imposing a tax on families with more than two children. He also reversed much of his predecessor's economic policies, instituting a protectionist regime and nationalizing the nation's mining and banking assets. This has led many people to suspect in a popular conspiracy theory that much of his Administration's officials were closet Communists attempting to look more respectable.
[7] Wang was Chen's VP and succeeded him when he died in rather mysterious circumstances while on a visit to Korea. Officially, he died of a heart attack, but to this day there are rumours Chen was taken out by disgruntled business tycoons or by a foreign intelligence agency in cahoots with them. Wang was never more than a placeholder President and served only until a special election was held.
[8] Also known as Chiang Kai-Shek. Jiang won the special election, and became China's first Kuomintang president since 1916. He declared martial law in January 1975 in response to student protests across China, and suspended the National Assembly. However, he died of heart attack three months later.
[9] With the Kuomingtang permanently removed from the national stage after Chiang's brief rule and abortive assumption of direct rule, a new era on the Chinese political scene began. During this period, under the guidance of the President Qiao Shi and his Unity Coalition, the republic formed closer relations with the United States and Germany, and also pursued a policy of reconciliation with the People's Republic of Japan.

[Francisco Cojuanco]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]
(1963-1972)--Chen Gongbo--(Social Democrat) [6]
(1972)--Wang Rongde (Social Democrat) [7]
(1972-1975)--Jiang Jieshi--(Kuomintang) [8]
(1975-1983)--Qiao Shi (Tuanjie Coalition) [9]
(1983-1995)--Li Denghui--(Democratic Party) [10]
[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.
[6] Vice-President under Zhang Gongsun, and succeeded him upon the latter's death in 1963. Originally from the left-wing of the KMT, he founded the Social Democratic Party along with several ex-KMT leftists and former Communists. Winning reelection in 1964, his most notable and controversial policy was the so-called "two-child tax", a population-control measure imposing a tax on families with more than two children. He also reversed much of his predecessor's economic policies, instituting a protectionist regime and nationalizing the nation's mining and banking assets. This has led many people to suspect in a popular conspiracy theory that much of his Administration's officials were closet Communists attempting to look more respectable.
[7] Wang was Chen's VP and succeeded him when he died in rather mysterious circumstances while on a visit to Korea. Officially, he died of a heart attack, but to this day there are rumours Chen was taken out by disgruntled business tycoons or by a foreign intelligence agency in cahoots with them. Wang was never more than a placeholder President and served only until a special election was held.
[8] Also known as Chiang Kai-Shek. Jiang won the special election, and became China's first Kuomintang president since 1916. He declared martial law in January 1975 in response to student protests across China, and suspended the National Assembly. However, he died of heart attack three months later.
[9] With the Kuomingtang permanently removed from the national stage after Chiang's brief rule and abortive assumption of direct rule, a new era on the Chinese political scene began. During this period, under the guidance of the President Qiao Shi and his Unity Coalition, the republic formed closer relations with the United States and Germany, and also pursued a policy of reconciliation with the People's Republic of Japan.
[10] Won election by appealing to ex-KMT voters and others who were horrified at the recession that had accompanied Qiao's tenure. Was President during the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Japan (whose monarchy was restored after exile). Was reelected in 1987 and 1991, before retiring. Second President of the Second Republic.

[Tsao]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]
(1963-1972)--Chen Gongbo--(Social Democrat) [6]
(1972)--Wang Rongde (Social Democrat) [7]
(1972-1975)--Jiang Jieshi--(Kuomintang) [8]
(1975-1983)--Qiao Shi (Tuanjie Coalition) [9]
(1983-1995)--Li Denghui--(Democratic Party) [10]
(1995-1997)--Chen Mingtao--(Democratic Party) [11]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.
[6] Vice-President under Zhang Gongsun, and succeeded him upon the latter's death in 1963. Originally from the left-wing of the KMT, he founded the Social Democratic Party along with several ex-KMT leftists and former Communists. Winning reelection in 1964, his most notable and controversial policy was the so-called "two-child tax", a population-control measure imposing a tax on families with more than two children. He also reversed much of his predecessor's economic policies, instituting a protectionist regime and nationalizing the nation's mining and banking assets. This has led many people to suspect in a popular conspiracy theory that much of his Administration's officials were closet Communists attempting to look more respectable.
[7] Wang was Chen's VP and succeeded him when he died in rather mysterious circumstances while on a visit to Korea. Officially, he died of a heart attack, but to this day there are rumours Chen was taken out by disgruntled business tycoons or by a foreign intelligence agency in cahoots with them. Wang was never more than a placeholder President and served only until a special election was held.
[8] Also known as Chiang Kai-Shek. Jiang won the special election, and became China's first Kuomintang president since 1916. He declared martial law in January 1975 in response to student protests across China, and suspended the National Assembly. However, he died of heart attack three months later.
[9] With the Kuomingtang permanently removed from the national stage after Chiang's brief rule and abortive assumption of direct rule, a new era on the Chinese political scene began. During this period, under the guidance of the President Qiao Shi and his Unity Coalition, the republic formed closer relations with the United States and Germany, and also pursued a policy of reconciliation with the People's Republic of Japan.
[10] Li Denghui won the election by appealing to ex-KMT voters and others who were horrified at the recession that had accompanied Qiao's tenure. Li as President during the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Japan (whose monarchy was restored after exile). He was reelected in 1987 and 1991, before retiring. Second President of the Second Republic.
[11] Chen, a former member of the Kuomingtang and a venerable Old Guard politician, was Li's vice president. He died after two years from lung cancer, and was most notable for his attempted economic reforms, as well as his friendship towards the new government in Japan.

[Tony]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]
(1963-1972)--Chen Gongbo--(Social Democrat) [6]
(1972)--Wang Rongde (Social Democrat) [7]
(1972-1975)--Jiang Jieshi--(Kuomintang) [8]
(1975-1983)--Qiao Shi (Tuanjie Coalition) [9]
(1983-1995)--Li Denghui--(Democratic Party) [10]
(1995-1997)--Chen Mingtao--(Democratic Party) [11]
(1997-1999)--Guo Luoji--(Democratic Party) [12]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.
[6] Vice-President under Zhang Gongsun, and succeeded him upon the latter's death in 1963. Originally from the left-wing of the KMT, he founded the Social Democratic Party along with several ex-KMT leftists and former Communists. Winning reelection in 1964, his most notable and controversial policy was the so-called "two-child tax", a population-control measure imposing a tax on families with more than two children. He also reversed much of his predecessor's economic policies, instituting a protectionist regime and nationalizing the nation's mining and banking assets. This has led many people to suspect in a popular conspiracy theory that much of his Administration's officials were closet Communists attempting to look more respectable.
[7] Wang was Chen's VP and succeeded him when he died in rather mysterious circumstances while on a visit to Korea. Officially, he died of a heart attack, but to this day there are rumours Chen was taken out by disgruntled business tycoons or by a foreign intelligence agency in cahoots with them. Wang was never more than a placeholder President and served only until a special election was held.
[8] Also known as Chiang Kai-Shek. Jiang won the special election, and became China's first Kuomintang president since 1916. He declared martial law in January 1975 in response to student protests across China, and suspended the National Assembly. However, he died of heart attack three months later.
[9] With the Kuomingtang permanently removed from the national stage after Chiang's brief rule and abortive assumption of direct rule, a new era on the Chinese political scene began. During this period, under the guidance of the President Qiao Shi and his Unity Coalition, the republic formed closer relations with the United States and Germany, and also pursued a policy of reconciliation with the People's Republic of Japan.
[10] Li Denghui won the election by appealing to ex-KMT voters and others who were horrified at the recession that had accompanied Qiao's tenure. Li as President during the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Japan (whose monarchy was restored after exile). He was reelected in 1987 and 1991, before retiring. Second President of the Second Republic.
[11] Chen, a former member of the Kuomingtang and a venerable Old Guard politician, was Li's vice president. He died after two years from lung cancer, and was most notable for his attempted economic reforms, as well as his friendship towards the new government in Japan.
[12] Defeated for reelection by ____________ of the right wing __________________.

[Tsao]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]
(1963-1972)--Chen Gongbo--(Social Democrat) [6]
(1972)--Wang Rongde (Social Democrat) [7]
(1972-1975)--Jiang Jieshi--(Kuomintang) [8]
(1975-1983)--Qiao Shi (Tuanjie Coalition) [9]
(1983-1995)--Li Denghui--(Democratic Party) [10]
(1995-1997)--Chen Mingtao--(Democratic Party) [11]
(1997-1999)--Guo Luoji--(Democratic Party) [12]
(1999-2006)--Song Chuyu--(Chinese Popular Front) [13]

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.
[6] Vice-President under Zhang Gongsun, and succeeded him upon the latter's death in 1963. Originally from the left-wing of the KMT, he founded the Social Democratic Party along with several ex-KMT leftists and former Communists. Winning reelection in 1964, his most notable and controversial policy was the so-called "two-child tax", a population-control measure imposing a tax on families with more than two children. He also reversed much of his predecessor's economic policies, instituting a protectionist regime and nationalizing the nation's mining and banking assets. This has led many people to suspect in a popular conspiracy theory that much of his Administration's officials were closet Communists attempting to look more respectable.
[7] Wang was Chen's VP and succeeded him when he died in rather mysterious circumstances while on a visit to Korea. Officially, he died of a heart attack, but to this day there are rumours Chen was taken out by disgruntled business tycoons or by a foreign intelligence agency in cahoots with them. Wang was never more than a placeholder President and served only until a special election was held.
[8] Also known as Chiang Kai-Shek. Jiang won the special election, and became China's first Kuomintang president since 1916. He declared martial law in January 1975 in response to student protests across China, and suspended the National Assembly. However, he died of heart attack three months later.
[9] With the Kuomingtang permanently removed from the national stage after Chiang's brief rule and abortive assumption of direct rule, a new era on the Chinese political scene began. During this period, under the guidance of the President Qiao Shi and his Unity Coalition, the republic formed closer relations with the United States and Germany, and also pursued a policy of reconciliation with the People's Republic of Japan.
[10] Li Denghui won the election by appealing to ex-KMT voters and others who were horrified at the recession that had accompanied Qiao's tenure. Li as President during the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Japan (whose monarchy was restored after exile). He was reelected in 1987 and 1991, before retiring. Second President of the Second Republic.
[11] Chen, a former member of the Kuomingtang and a venerable Old Guard politician, was Li's vice president. He died after two years from lung cancer, and was most notable for his attempted economic reforms, as well as his friendship towards the new government in Japan.
[12] Defeated for reelection by Song Chuyu of the right wing Chinese Popular Front, aldo known as the "Party of Prosperity".

[Tony]

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Tsing Quchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]
(1963-1972)--Chen Gongbo--(Social Democrat) [6]
(1972)--Wang Rongde (Social Democrat) [7]
(1972-1975)--Jiang Jieshi--(Kuomintang) [8]
(1975-1983)--Qiao Shi (Tuanjie Coalition) [9]
(1983-1995)--Li Denghui--(Democratic Party) [10]
(1995-1997)--Chen Mingtao--(Democratic Party) [11]
(1997-1999)--Guo Luoji--(Democratic Party) [12]
(1999-2006)--Song Chuyu--(Chinese Popular Front) [13]
(2006-2011)--Sha Zukang--(Chinese Popular Front)
[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.
[6] Vice-President under Zhang Gongsun, and succeeded him upon the latter's death in 1963. Originally from the left-wing of the KMT, he founded the Social Democratic Party along with several ex-KMT leftists and former Communists. Winning reelection in 1964, his most notable and controversial policy was the so-called "two-child tax", a population-control measure imposing a tax on families with more than two children. He also reversed much of his predecessor's economic policies, instituting a protectionist regime and nationalizing the nation's mining and banking assets. This has led many people to suspect in a popular conspiracy theory that much of his Administration's officials were closet Communists attempting to look more respectable.
[7] Wang was Chen's VP and succeeded him when he died in rather mysterious circumstances while on a visit to Korea. Officially, he died of a heart attack, but to this day there are rumours Chen was taken out by disgruntled business tycoons or by a foreign intelligence agency in cahoots with them. Wang was never more than a placeholder President and served only until a special election was held.
[8] Also known as Chiang Kai-Shek. Jiang won the special election, and became China's first Kuomintang president since 1916. He declared martial law in January 1975 in response to student protests across China, and suspended the National Assembly. However, he died of heart attack three months later.
[9] With the Kuomingtang permanently removed from the national stage after Chiang's brief rule and abortive assumption of direct rule, a new era on the Chinese political scene began. During this period, under the guidance of the President Qiao Shi and his Unity Coalition, the republic formed closer relations with the United States and Germany, and also pursued a policy of reconciliation with the People's Republic of Japan.
[10] Li Denghui won the election by appealing to ex-KMT voters and others who were horrified at the recession that had accompanied Qiao's tenure. Li as President during the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Japan (whose monarchy was restored after exile). He was reelected in 1987 and 1991, before retiring. Second President of the Second Republic.
[11] Chen, a former member of the Kuomingtang and a venerable Old Guard politician, was Li's vice president. He died after two years from lung cancer, and was most notable for his attempted economic reforms, as well as his friendship towards the new government in Japan.
[12] Defeated for reelection by Song Chuyu of the right wing Chinese Popular Front, aldo known as the "Party of Prosperity".
[13] Assassinated in Hetian by a East Turkestani independent activist, and is succeeded by Sha Zukang, a interventionist neoconservative. Winning reelection in 2006, he is however defeated by ___________ of the center-left ________________ in 2010.

OOC: We better use Wade-Giles translation for Taiwanese politicians for convenience:p I don't think many here would be able to connect Li Denghui with Lee Teng-hui, or Song Churyu with James Soong:p

[Tsao]

Presidents of the Republic of China (1912-Present)

(1912)--Sun Yat-sen--(Kuomingtang) [1]
(1912-1916)--Chen Qimei--(Kuomintang)
(1916-1929)--Liang Qichao--(Progressive)
(1929)--Zhang Zuolin--(Qing Restorationist) [2]
(1929-1935)--Cai E--(Progressive) [3]
(1935-1944)--Zhang Jinghui--(Independent, United China Party after 1940) [4]
(1944-1956)--Xing Tuchao (National Republicans)
(1956-1963)--Zhang Dongsun (Liberal Democratic League) [5]
(1963-1972)--Chen Gongbo--(Social Democrat) [6]
(1972)--Wang Rongde (Social Democrat) [7]
(1972-1975)--Jiang Jieshi--(Kuomintang) [8]
(1975-1983)--Qiao Shi (Tuanjie Coalition) [9]
(1983-1995)--Li Denghui--(Democratic Party) [10]
(1995-1997)--Chen Mingtao--(Democratic Party) [11]
(1997-1999)--Guo Luoji--(Democratic Party) [12]
(1999-2006)--Song Chuyu--(Chinese Popular Front) [13]
(2006-2010)--Sha Zukang--(Chinese Popular Front)
(2010-Present)--Zeng Qinghong--(New China Democratic Party)

[1] Sun was assasinated in January of 1912 by a Qing Loyalist, throwing the young government of the Republic of China into chaos as rival factions attempted to seize control of the Parliament.
[2] After Liang's death, there was a power vacuum, which was immediately filled by the northern general Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Army Group, who seized Peking and restored the Qing claimant Emperor Puyi to the throne. He was overthrown after four months in a counter-coup led by General Cai E, and was forced to flee to Japan.
[3] General Cai E of the Southern Army, a proud student of former leader Liang Qichao, overthrows Zhang Zuolin, and is proclaimed President of the Republic of China, pushing forward sweeping social, economic and military reforms. Despite becoming the first-ever popularly-elected president in 1935, he dies of a sudden heart attack before he could begin serving his term.
[4] Served out Cai E's term (having been Vice-President), then won a blatantly rigged reelection financed, it is rumored, by the Japanese. Was assassinated by a Kuomintang supporter the day before the 1944 election).
[5] Public intellectual and founder of the Liberal Democratic League, Zhang Dongsun declares his intention to run for President in 1956 election. With the reactionary Koumintang and the increasingly militant Communists as the only other major options, with the Progressive Party having dissolved during the 40s, Zhang Dongsun is quick to win international support, with both the socialist Bertrand Russell and the classical liberal Friedrich von Hayek declaring their support in Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt declaring hers from the United States. When faced with the Koumintang in the second round, the LDL scores a remarkable victory. Zhang Dongsun declares it his intention to bring foreign capital and investment into China and begins to deconstruct the massive trade walls that have existed since Qing days. In 1961, he is able to introduce education for all until age 14.
[6] Vice-President under Zhang Gongsun, and succeeded him upon the latter's death in 1963. Originally from the left-wing of the KMT, he founded the Social Democratic Party along with several ex-KMT leftists and former Communists. Winning reelection in 1964, his most notable and controversial policy was the so-called "two-child tax", a population-control measure imposing a tax on families with more than two children. He also reversed much of his predecessor's economic policies, instituting a protectionist regime and nationalizing the nation's mining and banking assets. This has led many people to suspect in a popular conspiracy theory that much of his Administration's officials were closet Communists attempting to look more respectable.
[7] Wang was Chen's VP and succeeded him when he died in rather mysterious circumstances while on a visit to Korea. Officially, he died of a heart attack, but to this day there are rumours Chen was taken out by disgruntled business tycoons or by a foreign intelligence agency in cahoots with them. Wang was never more than a placeholder President and served only until a special election was held.
[8] Also known as Chiang Kai-Shek. Jiang won the special election, and became China's first Kuomintang president since 1916. He declared martial law in January 1975 in response to student protests across China, and suspended the National Assembly. However, he died of heart attack three months later.
[9] With the Kuomingtang permanently removed from the national stage after Chiang's brief rule and abortive assumption of direct rule, a new era on the Chinese political scene began. During this period, under the guidance of the President Qiao Shi and his Unity Coalition, the republic formed closer relations with the United States and Germany, and also pursued a policy of reconciliation with the People's Republic of Japan.
[10] Li Denghui won the election by appealing to ex-KMT voters and others who were horrified at the recession that had accompanied Qiao's tenure. Li as President during the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Japan (whose monarchy was restored after exile). He was reelected in 1987 and 1991, before retiring. Second President of the Second Republic.
[11] Chen, a former member of the Kuomingtang and a venerable Old Guard politician, was Li's vice president. He died after two years from lung cancer, and was most notable for his attempted economic reforms, as well as his friendship towards the new government in Japan.
[12] Defeated for reelection by Song Chuyu of the right wing Chinese Popular Front, also known as the "Party of Prosperity".
[13] Assassinated in Hetian by a East Turkestani independent activist, and is succeeded by Sha Zukang, a interventionist neo-conservative. Winning reelection in 2006, he is however defeated by Zeng Qinghong of the center-left New China Democratic Party, an off-shoot of the old Social Democrats, in 2010.

OOC: We better use Wade-Giles translation for Taiwanese politicians for convenience:p I don't think many here would be able to connect Li Denghui with Lee Teng-hui, or Song Churyu with James Soong:p

OOC: You're probably right. Anyways, time for a new list!

[rcduggan]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913
Presidents of the Republic of China
(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]



[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swings against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favors Song's party, he eventually defeats Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution," and manages to serve for a full term.

[Tsao]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomingdang [2]
(1922-?) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-?) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique


[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by _____ ________, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.

[Francisco Cojuanco]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomingdang [2]
(1922-1924) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-1924) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique
(1924-1937) Feng Yuxiang - Guomindang[3]


[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by Feng Yuxiang, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.
[3] In a lightning campaign, involving some of Asia's first use of aerial bombardment, Feng overthrew Xu and the Peking-based government, renaming the city Peiping. His authoritarian rule saw a crackdown on the opium trade and the "moral depravity" of Shanghai, as well as increased opening up to Western investment. He amended the Constitution to increase the Presidential term to six years, and won reelection in 1930. In 1936, he lost an internal power struggle in the GMD, and was for the remainder of his term a puppet of others. Western observers called him the "Chinese Cromwell", though critics have also likened him to a much more moral version of Porfirio Diaz.

[Tsao]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomingdang [2]
(1922-1924) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-1924) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique
(1924-1937) Feng Yuxiang - Guomindang [3]
(1937-1940) Hu Hanmin - Guomingdang [4]

[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by the Nationalist general Feng Yuxiang, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.
[3] In a lightning campaign, involving some of Asia's first use of aerial bombardment, Feng overthrew Xu and the Peking-based government, renaming the city Peiping. His authoritarian rule saw a crackdown on the opium trade and the "moral depravity" of Shanghai, as well as increased opening up to Western investment. He amended the Constitution to increase the Presidential term to six years, and won reelection in 1930. In 1936, he lost an internal power struggle in the GMD, and was for the remainder of his term a puppet of others. Western observers called him the "Chinese Cromwell", though critics have also likened him to a much more moral version of Porfirio Diaz.
[4] A prominent right-wing member of the GMD with links to the German military, Hu dominated Feng Yuxiang's government from 1933, and was elected after Feng's resignation in 1937. On April 7th, 1940, while walking in the gardens of Jingshan Park in Peiping, he was approached by two men in black suits, who called out to him. When he turned, the assassins brought out the revolvers hidden under their coats and yelled "Death to traitors!" and fired. Hu was shot twice in the chest and once in the leg, and died from blood loss soon after in a Peiping hospital. His assassins fled the scene, and despite a massive effort on the part of the police force, they were never apprehended. There has been some speculation on the matter of Hu's assassination, but it is generally accepted by modern scholars that it was either carried out by independant Qing loyalists or Traditionalists (of which quite a few existed in Peiping), or was ordered by a political rival of Hu's. Nevertheless, after Hu's death, rival factions within the Guomindang began to quarrel, splintering the party into many different factions, one of which (the left-wing _________) managed to pull off a political coup in Peiping in August 1940, placing one of their own, ______ _______, in office.

[Francisco Cojuanco]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomingdang [2]
(1922-1924) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-1924) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique
(1924-1937) Feng Yuxiang - Guomindang [3]
(1937-1940) Hu Hanmin - Guomingdang [4]
(1940-1941) Yan Xishan - Guomindang [5]

[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by the Nationalist general Feng Yuxiang, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.
[3] In a lightning campaign, involving some of Asia's first use of aerial bombardment, Feng overthrew Xu and the Peking-based government, renaming the city Peiping. His authoritarian rule saw a crackdown on the opium trade and the "moral depravity" of Shanghai, as well as increased opening up to Western investment. He amended the Constitution to increase the Presidential term to six years, and won reelection in 1930. In 1936, he lost an internal power struggle in the GMD, and was for the remainder of his term a puppet of others. Western observers called him the "Chinese Cromwell", though critics have also likened him to a much more moral version of Porfirio Diaz.
[4] A prominent right-wing member of the GMD with links to the German military, Hu dominated Feng Yuxiang's government from 1933, and was elected after Feng's resignation in 1937. On April 7th, 1940, while walking in the gardens of Jingshan Park in Peiping, he was approached by two men in black suits, who called out to him. When he turned, the assassins brought out the revolvers hidden under their coats and yelled "Death to traitors!" and fired. Hu was shot twice in the chest and once in the leg, and died from blood loss soon after in a Peiping hospital. His assassins fled the scene, and despite a massive effort on the part of the police force, they were never apprehended. There has been some speculation on the matter of Hu's assassination, but it is generally accepted by modern scholars that it was either carried out by independant Qing loyalists or Traditionalists (of which quite a few existed in Peiping), or was ordered by a political rival of Hu's. Nevertheless, after Hu's death, rival factions within the Guomindang began to quarrel, splintering the party into many different factions, one of which (the left-wing Militant Clique) managed to pull off a political coup in Peiping in August 1940, placing one of their own, Yan Xishan, in office.
[5] Oversaw the permanent move of the capital to Nanjing. However, he was soon faced with a war with Japan, after he refused to accede to the Osaka Declaration allowing Japanese troops to use southern China as a lanuching point to attack Indochina, and died in 1941 defending Nanjing from Japanese attack.

[Tony]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomingdang [2]
(1922-1924) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-1924) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique
(1924-1937) Feng Yuxiang - Guomindang [3]
(1937-1940) Hu Hanmin - Guomingdang [4]
(1940-1941) Yan Xishan - Guomindang [5]
(1941-1956) Yang Hucheng - People's Rally [6]

[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by the Nationalist general Feng Yuxiang, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.
[3] In a lightning campaign, involving some of Asia's first use of aerial bombardment, Feng overthrew Xu and the Peking-based government, renaming the city Peiping. His authoritarian rule saw a crackdown on the opium trade and the "moral depravity" of Shanghai, as well as increased opening up to Western investment. He amended the Constitution to increase the Presidential term to six years, and won reelection in 1930. In 1936, he lost an internal power struggle in the GMD, and was for the remainder of his term a puppet of others. Western observers called him the "Chinese Cromwell", though critics have also likened him to a much more moral version of Porfirio Diaz.
[4] A prominent right-wing member of the GMD with links to the German military, Hu dominated Feng Yuxiang's government from 1933, and was elected after Feng's resignation in 1937. On April 7th, 1940, while walking in the gardens of Jingshan Park in Peiping, he was approached by two men in black suits, who called out to him. When he turned, the assassins brought out the revolvers hidden under their coats and yelled "Death to traitors!" and fired. Hu was shot twice in the chest and once in the leg, and died from blood loss soon after in a Peiping hospital. His assassins fled the scene, and despite a massive effort on the part of the police force, they were never apprehended. There has been some speculation on the matter of Hu's assassination, but it is generally accepted by modern scholars that it was either carried out by independant Qing loyalists or Traditionalists (of which quite a few existed in Peiping), or was ordered by a political rival of Hu's. Nevertheless, after Hu's death, rival factions within the Guomindang began to quarrel, splintering the party into many different factions, one of which (the left-wing Militant Cligue) managed to pull off a political coup in Peiping in August 1940, placing one of their own, Yan Xishan, in office.
[5] Oversaw the permanent move of the capital to Nanjing. However, he was soon faced with a war with Japan, after he refused to accede to the Osaka Declaration allowing Japanese troops to use southern China as a lanuching point to attack Indochina, and died in 1941 defending Nanjing from Japanese attack.
[6] Endorsed by leftist elements of the KMT such as He Xiangning , Wang Jingwei, Li Jishen and Zhu De, left-leaning General Yang Hucheng becomes the new leader of China succeeding Yan Xishan, and would form his own centre-left People's Rally. After the war, Yang would restore democracy, pushes forward sweeping land and social reforms, and oversee the drafting of the 1947 Constitution (OOC: similar to the one we have now in Taiwan instead of the one in OTL 1947). Yang defeats KMT nominee He Yingqin by a 55-38 margin in the election of 1948, and would again win reelection over Wellington Koo by a 51-40 margin.

[Tsao]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomingdang [2]
(1922-1924) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-1924) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique
(1924-1937) Feng Yuxiang - Guomindang [3]
(1937-1940) Hu Hanmin - Guomingdang [4]
(1940-1941) Yan Xishan - Guomindang [5]
(1941-1956) Yang Hucheng - People's Rally [6]
(1956-1971) Zhu De - People's Rally [7]

[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by the Nationalist general Feng Yuxiang, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.
[3] In a lightning campaign, involving some of Asia's first use of aerial bombardment, Feng overthrew Xu and the Peking-based government, renaming the city Peiping. His authoritarian rule saw a crackdown on the opium trade and the "moral depravity" of Shanghai, as well as increased opening up to Western investment. He amended the Constitution to increase the Presidential term to six years, and won reelection in 1930. In 1936, he lost an internal power struggle in the GMD, and was for the remainder of his term a puppet of others. Western observers called him the "Chinese Cromwell", though critics have also likened him to a much more moral version of Porfirio Diaz.
[4] A prominent right-wing member of the GMD with links to the German military, Hu dominated Feng Yuxiang's government from 1933, and was elected after Feng's resignation in 1937. On April 7th, 1940, while walking in the gardens of Jingshan Park in Peiping, he was approached by two men in black suits, who called out to him. When he turned, the assassins brought out the revolvers hidden under their coats and yelled "Death to traitors!" and fired. Hu was shot twice in the chest and once in the leg, and died from blood loss soon after in a Peiping hospital. His assassins fled the scene, and despite a massive effort on the part of the police force, they were never apprehended. There has been some speculation on the matter of Hu's assassination, but it is generally accepted by modern scholars that it was either carried out by independant Qing loyalists or Traditionalists (of which quite a few existed in Peiping), or was ordered by a political rival of Hu's. Nevertheless, after Hu's death, rival factions within the Guomindang began to quarrel, splintering the party into many different factions, one of which (the left-wing Militant Cligue) managed to pull off a political coup in Peiping in August 1940, placing one of their own, Yan Xishan, in office.
[5] Oversaw the permanent move of the capital to Nanjing. However, he was soon faced with a war with Japan, after he refused to accede to the Osaka Declaration allowing Japanese troops to use southern China as a launching point to attack Indochina, and died in 1941 defending Nanjing from Japanese attack.
[6] Endorsed by leftist elements of the KMT such as He Xiangning, Li Jishen, and Zhu De, left-leaning General Yang Hucheng became the new leader of China succeeding Yan Xishan, and would form his own centre-left People's Rally. After the war, Yang would restore democracy, push forward sweeping land and social reforms, and oversee the drafting of the 1947 Constitution (OOC: similar to the one we have now in Taiwan instead of the one in OTL 1947). Yang defeated KMT nominee He Yingqin by a 55-38 margin in the election of 1948, and would again win reelection over Wellington Koo by a 51-40 margin in 1950.
[7] A gifted leftist general of the Sino-Japanese War and one who had been a young man during the "Revolutionary Period" (1911-1917), as well as a colleague of the gifted diplomat Zhou Enlai among others, Zhu De broadly continued the policies of Yang, and also instituted a series of economic reforms known as "The Caidi Initiatives". During this period, the Chinese economy, once kept poor by war and famine, boomed as both foreign and Chinese investors flocked to the newly modernized Chinese industrial sector. Also developed during this period was Chinese animation, as the famous Wan brothers developed such films as The Little Princess, General Big Horse,and the famed Battle in Nanking, which was based off of the real battle of Nanking in 1941. All of these films became instant hits, and were the beginning of a new golden age in Chinese film & animation.

OOC: Wang Jingwei was killed during Wu Peifu's invasion of Peking in 1922.

[Tony]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomingdang [2]
(1922-1924) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-1924) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique
(1924-1937) Feng Yuxiang - Guomindang [3]
(1937-1940) Hu Hanmin - Guomingdang [4]
(1940-1941) Yan Xishan - Guomindang [5]
(1941-1956) Yang Hucheng - People's Rally [6]
(1956-1972) Zhu De - People's Rally [7]
(1972-1984) Li Guoding - Guomindang [8]

[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by the Nationalist general Feng Yuxiang, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.
[3] In a lightning campaign, involving some of Asia's first use of aerial bombardment, Feng overthrew Xu and the Peking-based government, renaming the city Peiping. His authoritarian rule saw a crackdown on the opium trade and the "moral depravity" of Shanghai, as well as increased opening up to Western investment. He amended the Constitution to increase the Presidential term to six years, and won reelection in 1930. In 1936, he lost an internal power struggle in the GMD, and was for the remainder of his term a puppet of others. Western observers called him the "Chinese Cromwell", though critics have also likened him to a much more moral version of Porfirio Diaz.
[4] A prominent right-wing member of the GMD with links to the German military, Hu dominated Feng Yuxiang's government from 1933, and was elected after Feng's resignation in 1937. On April 7th, 1940, while walking in the gardens of Jingshan Park in Peiping, he was approached by two men in black suits, who called out to him. When he turned, the assassins brought out the revolvers hidden under their coats and yelled "Death to traitors!" and fired. Hu was shot twice in the chest and once in the leg, and died from blood loss soon after in a Peiping hospital. His assassins fled the scene, and despite a massive effort on the part of the police force, they were never apprehended. There has been some speculation on the matter of Hu's assassination, but it is generally accepted by modern scholars that it was either carried out by independant Qing loyalists or Traditionalists (of which quite a few existed in Peiping), or was ordered by a political rival of Hu's. Nevertheless, after Hu's death, rival factions within the Guomindang began to quarrel, splintering the party into many different factions, one of which (the left-wing Militant Cligue) managed to pull off a political coup in Peiping in August 1940, placing one of their own, Yan Xishan, in office.
[5] Oversaw the permanent move of the capital to Nanjing. However, he was soon faced with a war with Japan, after he refused to accede to the Osaka Declaration allowing Japanese troops to use southern China as a launching point to attack Indochina, and died in 1941 defending Nanjing from Japanese attack.
[6] Endorsed by leftist elements of the KMT such as He Xiangning, Li Jishen, and Zhu De, left-leaning General Yang Hucheng became the new leader of China succeeding Yan Xishan, and would form his own centre-left People's Rally. After the war, Yang would restore democracy, push forward sweeping land and social reforms, and oversee the drafting of the 1947 Constitution (OOC: similar to the one we have now in Taiwan instead of the one in OTL 1947). Yang defeated KMT nominee He Yingqin by a 55-38 margin in the election of 1948, and would again win reelection over Wellington Koo by a 51-40 margin in 1950.
[7] A gifted leftist general of the Sino-Japanese War and one who had been a young man during the "Revolutionary Period" (1911-1917), as well as a colleague of the gifted diplomat Zhou Enlai among others, Zhu De broadly continued the policies of Yang, and also instituted a series of economic reforms known as "The Caidi Initiatives". During this period, the Chinese economy, once kept poor by war and famine, boomed as both foreign and Chinese investors flocked to the newly modernized Chinese industrial sector. Also developed during this period was Chinese animation, as the famous Wan brothers developed such films as The Little Princess, General Big Horse,and the famed Battle in Nanking, which was based off of the real battle of Nanking in 1941. All of these films became instant hits, and were the beginning of a new golden age in Chinese film & animation.
[8] More popularly known as Kwoh-ting Li or KT Li in the West, he defeats PR nominee Deng Xiaoping the the election of 1972 by a narrow 39-38 margin. He would win reelections over Liu Binyan (PR) by a 65-17 margin in 1976, and Hu Yaobang (PR) by a 49-38 margin in 1980. Under his presidency, Li transforms China's agrarian-based economy into one of the world's leading industrial powers. His "Incoming Doubling Plan" in 1977 leads to a consumer revolution in China. By the time President Li retires, China has surpassed Germany and Japan, becoming the third largest economy in the world only after the United Sates and the newly-democratizised Imperial States of Russia.

[rcduggan]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomingdang [2]
(1922-1924) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-1924) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique
(1924-1937) Feng Yuxiang - Guomindang [3]
(1937-1940) Hu Hanmin - Guomingdang [4]
(1940-1941) Yan Xishan - Guomindang [5]
(1941-1956) Yang Hucheng - People's Rally [6]
(1956-1972) Zhu De - People's Rally [7]
(1972-1984) Li Guoding - Guomindang [8]
(1984-1992) Liao Chengzhi - People's Rally [9]

[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by the Nationalist general Feng Yuxiang, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.
[3] In a lightning campaign, involving some of Asia's first use of aerial bombardment, Feng overthrew Xu and the Peking-based government, renaming the city Peiping. His authoritarian rule saw a crackdown on the opium trade and the "moral depravity" of Shanghai, as well as increased opening up to Western investment. He amended the Constitution to increase the Presidential term to six years, and won reelection in 1930. In 1936, he lost an internal power struggle in the GMD, and was for the remainder of his term a puppet of others. Western observers called him the "Chinese Cromwell", though critics have also likened him to a much more moral version of Porfirio Diaz.
[4] A prominent right-wing member of the GMD with links to the German military, Hu dominated Feng Yuxiang's government from 1933, and was elected after Feng's resignation in 1937. On April 7th, 1940, while walking in the gardens of Jingshan Park in Peiping, he was approached by two men in black suits, who called out to him. When he turned, the assassins brought out the revolvers hidden under their coats and yelled "Death to traitors!" and fired. Hu was shot twice in the chest and once in the leg, and died from blood loss soon after in a Peiping hospital. His assassins fled the scene, and despite a massive effort on the part of the police force, they were never apprehended. There has been some speculation on the matter of Hu's assassination, but it is generally accepted by modern scholars that it was either carried out by independant Qing loyalists or Traditionalists (of which quite a few existed in Peiping), or was ordered by a political rival of Hu's. Nevertheless, after Hu's death, rival factions within the Guomindang began to quarrel, splintering the party into many different factions, one of which (the left-wing Militant Cligue) managed to pull off a political coup in Peiping in August 1940, placing one of their own, Yan Xishan, in office.
[5] Oversaw the permanent move of the capital to Nanjing. However, he was soon faced with a war with Japan, after he refused to accede to the Osaka Declaration allowing Japanese troops to use southern China as a launching point to attack Indochina, and died in 1941 defending Nanjing from Japanese attack.
[6] Endorsed by leftist elements of the KMT such as He Xiangning, Li Jishen, and Zhu De, left-leaning General Yang Hucheng became the new leader of China succeeding Yan Xishan, and would form his own centre-left People's Rally. After the war, Yang would restore democracy, push forward sweeping land and social reforms, and oversee the drafting of the 1947 Constitution (OOC: similar to the one we have now in Taiwan instead of the one in OTL 1947). Yang defeated KMT nominee He Yingqin by a 55-38 margin in the election of 1948, and would again win reelection over Wellington Koo by a 51-40 margin in 1950.
[7] A gifted leftist general of the Sino-Japanese War and one who had been a young man during the "Revolutionary Period" (1911-1917), as well as a colleague of the gifted diplomat Zhou Enlai among others, Zhu De broadly continued the policies of Yang, and also instituted a series of economic reforms known as "The Caidi Initiatives". During this period, the Chinese economy, once kept poor by war and famine, boomed as both foreign and Chinese investors flocked to the newly modernized Chinese industrial sector. Also developed during this period was Chinese animation, as the famous Wan brothers developed such films as The Little Princess, General Big Horse,and the famed Battle in Nanking, which was based off of the real battle of Nanking in 1941. All of these films became instant hits, and were the beginning of a new golden age in Chinese film & animation.
[8] More popularly known as Kwoh-ting Li or KT Li in the West, he defeats PR nominee Deng Xiaoping the the election of 1972 by a narrow 39-38 margin. He would win reelections over Liu Binyan (PR) by a 65-17 margin in 1976, and Hu Yaobang (PR) by a 49-38 margin in 1980. Under his presidency, Li transforms China's agrarian-based economy into one of the world's leading industrial powers. His "Incoming Doubling Plan" in 1977 leads to a consumer revolution in China. By the time President Li retires, China has surpassed Germany and Japan, becoming the third largest economy in the world only after the United Sates and the newly-democratizised Imperial States of Russia.
[9] The only son of former President of the ROC Liao Zhongkai, also known as Ch’eng-chih Liao or CC Liao in the west. His part surged on the backs of rural / agrarian voters and workers concerned that China’s embrace of economic progress was sacrificing Sun Yat-sen’s founding principles to boost exports and the technology sector. Though Liao Chengzhi would do little to roll back the policies of his predecessor Li Guoding, as the left wing of the People’s Rally called for, he would implement a social safety net and punitive welfare measures to help the rural and urban poor. Backed by popular approval, he won re-election to a second term, vowing to continue his populist crusade to help the lower classes. [EDIT - he doesn't die in 1983 ITTL, of course.]

[Tsao]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomindang [2]
(1922-1924) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-1924) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique
(1924-1937) Feng Yuxiang - Guomindang [3]
(1937-1940) Hu Hanmin - Guomindang [4]
(1940-1941) Yan Xishan - Guomindang [5]
(1941-1956) Yang Hucheng - People's Rally [6]
(1956-1972) Zhu De - People's Rally [7]
(1972-1984) Li Guoding - Guomindang [8]
(1984-1992) Liao Chengzhi - People's Rally [9] (1992-2000) Rong Yiren - People's Rally

[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by the Nationalist general Feng Yuxiang, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.
[3] In a lightning campaign, involving some of Asia's first use of aerial bombardment, Feng overthrew Xu and the Peking-based government, renaming the city Peiping. His authoritarian rule saw a crackdown on the opium trade and the "moral depravity" of Shanghai, as well as increased opening up to Western investment. He amended the Constitution to increase the Presidential term to six years, and won reelection in 1930. In 1936, he lost an internal power struggle in the GMD, and was for the remainder of his term a puppet of others. Western observers called him the "Chinese Cromwell", though critics have also likened him to a much more moral version of Porfirio Diaz.
[4] A prominent right-wing member of the GMD with links to the German military, Hu dominated Feng Yuxiang's government from 1933, and was elected after Feng's resignation in 1937. On April 7th, 1940, while walking in the gardens of Jingshan Park in Peiping, he was approached by two men in black suits, who called out to him. When he turned, the assassins brought out the revolvers hidden under their coats and yelled "Death to traitors!" and fired. Hu was shot twice in the chest and once in the leg, and died from blood loss soon after in a Peiping hospital. His assassins fled the scene, and despite a massive effort on the part of the police force, they were never apprehended. There has been some speculation on the matter of Hu's assassination, but it is generally accepted by modern scholars that it was either carried out by independent Qing loyalists or Traditionalists (of which quite a few existed in Peiping), or was ordered by a political rival of Hu's. Nevertheless, after Hu's death, rival factions within the Guomindang began to quarrel, splintering the party into many different factions, one of which (the left-wing Militant Clique) managed to pull off a political coup in Peiping in August 1940, placing one of their own, Yan Xishan, in office.
[5] Oversaw the permanent move of the capital to Nanjing. However, he was soon faced with a war with Japan, after he refused to accede to the Osaka Declaration allowing Japanese troops to use southern China as a launching point to attack Indochina, and died in 1941 defending Nanjing from Japanese attack.
[6] Endorsed by leftist elements of the KMT such as He Xiongning, Li Jishen, and Zhu De, left-leaning General Yang Hucheng became the new leader of China succeeding Yan Xishan, and would form his own centre-left People's Rally. After the war, Yang would restore democracy, push forward sweeping land and social reforms, and oversee the drafting of the 1947 Constitution (OOC: similar to the one we have now in Taiwan instead of the one in OTL 1947). Yang defeated KMT nominee He Yingqin by a 55-38 margin in the election of 1948, and would again win reelection over Wellington Koo by a 51-40 margin in 1950.
[7] A gifted leftist general of the Sino-Japanese War and one who had been a young man during the "Revolutionary Period" (1911-1917), as well as a colleague of the gifted diplomat Zhou Enlai among others, Zhu De broadly continued the policies of Yang, and also instituted a series of economic reforms known as "The Caidi Initiatives". During this period, the Chinese economy, once kept poor by war and famine, boomed as both foreign and Chinese investors flocked to the newly modernized Chinese industrial sector. Also developed during this period was Chinese animation, as the famous Wan brothers developed such films as The Little Princess, General Big Horse, and the famed Battle in Nanking, which was based off of the real battle of Nanking in 1941. All of these films became instant hits, and were the beginning of a new golden age in Chinese film & animation.
[8] More popularly known as Kwoh-ting Li or KT Li in the West, he defeats PR nominee Deng Xiaoping the election of 1972 by a narrow 39-38 margin. He would win reelections over Liu Binyan (PR) by a 65-17 margin in 1976, and Hu Yaobang (PR) by a 49-38 margin in 1980. Under his presidency, Li transforms China's agrarian-based economy into one of the world's leading industrial powers. His "Incoming Doubling Plan" in 1977 leads to a consumer revolution in China. By the time President Li retires, China has surpassed Germany and Japan, becoming the third largest economy in the world only after the United States and the newly-democratized Imperial States of Russia.
[9] The only son of former President of the ROC Liao Zhongkai, also known as Ch’eng-chih Liao or CC Liao in the west. His part surged on the backs of rural / agrarian voters and workers concerned that China’s embrace of economic progress was sacrificing Sun Yat-sen’s founding principles to boost exports and the technology sector. Though Liao Chengzhi would do little to roll back the policies of his predecessor Li Guoding, as the left wing of the People’s Rally called for, he would implement a social safety net and punitive welfare measures to help the rural and urban poor. Backed by popular approval, he won re-election to a second term, vowing to continue his populist crusade to help the lower classes.

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New one ;)
POD: Mao resigns his paramount authority in 1956 as planned, handing power off to his subordinate, Liu Shaoqi.

Paramounts Leader of the People's Republic of China

(1949-1956) Mao Zedong (CPC)
(1956-????) Liu Shaoqi (CPC)

[Tony]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomindang [2]
(1922-1924) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-1924) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique
(1924-1937) Feng Yuxiang - Guomindang [3]
(1937-1940) Hu Hanmin - Guomindang [4]
(1940-1941) Yan Xishan - Guomindang [5]
(1941-1956) Yang Hucheng - People's Rally [6]
(1956-1972) Zhu De - People's Rally [7]
(1972-1984) Li Guoding - Guomindang [8]
(1984-1992) Liao Chengzhi - People's Rally [9]
(1992-2000) Rong Yiren - People's Rally
(2000-2008) Zhu Rongji - Guomindang [10]

[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by the Nationalist general Feng Yuxiang, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.
[3] In a lightning campaign, involving some of Asia's first use of aerial bombardment, Feng overthrew Xu and the Peking-based government, renaming the city Peiping. His authoritarian rule saw a crackdown on the opium trade and the "moral depravity" of Shanghai, as well as increased opening up to Western investment. He amended the Constitution to increase the Presidential term to six years, and won reelection in 1930. In 1936, he lost an internal power struggle in the GMD, and was for the remainder of his term a puppet of others. Western observers called him the "Chinese Cromwell", though critics have also likened him to a much more moral version of Porfirio Diaz.
[4] A prominent right-wing member of the GMD with links to the German military, Hu dominated Feng Yuxiang's government from 1933, and was elected after Feng's resignation in 1937. On April 7th, 1940, while walking in the gardens of Jingshan Park in Peiping, he was approached by two men in black suits, who called out to him. When he turned, the assassins brought out the revolvers hidden under their coats and yelled "Death to traitors!" and fired. Hu was shot twice in the chest and once in the leg, and died from blood loss soon after in a Peiping hospital. His assassins fled the scene, and despite a massive effort on the part of the police force, they were never apprehended. There has been some speculation on the matter of Hu's assassination, but it is generally accepted by modern scholars that it was either carried out by independent Qing loyalists or Traditionalists (of which quite a few existed in Peiping), or was ordered by a political rival of Hu's. Nevertheless, after Hu's death, rival factions within the Guomindang began to quarrel, splintering the party into many different factions, one of which (the left-wing Militant Clique) managed to pull off a political coup in Peiping in August 1940, placing one of their own, Yan Xishan, in office.
[5] Oversaw the permanent move of the capital to Nanjing. However, he was soon faced with a war with Japan, after he refused to accede to the Osaka Declaration allowing Japanese troops to use southern China as a launching point to attack Indochina, and died in 1941 defending Nanjing from Japanese attack.
[6] Endorsed by leftist elements of the KMT such as He Xiongning, Li Jishen, and Zhu De, left-leaning General Yang Hucheng became the new leader of China succeeding Yan Xishan, and would form his own centre-left People's Rally. After the war, Yang would restore democracy, push forward sweeping land and social reforms, and oversee the drafting of the 1947 Constitution (OOC: similar to the one we have now in Taiwan instead of the one in OTL 1947). Yang defeated KMT nominee He Yingqin by a 55-38 margin in the election of 1948, and would again win reelection over Wellington Koo by a 51-40 margin in 1950.
[7] A gifted leftist general of the Sino-Japanese War and one who had been a young man during the "Revolutionary Period" (1911-1917), as well as a colleague of the gifted diplomat Zhou Enlai among others, Zhu De broadly continued the policies of Yang, and also instituted a series of economic reforms known as "The Caidi Initiatives". During this period, the Chinese economy, once kept poor by war and famine, boomed as both foreign and Chinese investors flocked to the newly modernized Chinese industrial sector. Also developed during this period was Chinese animation, as the famous Wan brothers developed such films as The Little Princess, General Big Horse, and the famed Battle in Nanking, which was based off of the real battle of Nanking in 1941. All of these films became instant hits, and were the beginning of a new golden age in Chinese film & animation.
[8] More popularly known as Kwoh-ting Li or KT Li in the West, he defeats PR nominee Deng Xiaoping the election of 1972 by a narrow 39-38 margin. He would win reelections over Liu Binyan (PR) by a 65-17 margin in 1976, and Hu Yaobang (PR) by a 49-38 margin in 1980. Under his presidency, Li transforms China's agrarian-based economy into one of the world's leading industrial powers. His "Incoming Doubling Plan" in 1977 leads to a consumer revolution in China. By the time President Li retires, China has surpassed Germany and Japan, becoming the third largest economy in the world only after the United States and the newly-democratized Imperial States of Russia.
[9] The only son of former President of the ROC Liao Zhongkai, also known as Ch’eng-chih Liao or CC Liao in the west. His part surged on the backs of rural / agrarian voters and workers concerned that China’s embrace of economic progress was sacrificing Sun Yat-sen’s founding principles to boost exports and the technology sector. Though Liao Chengzhi would do little to roll back the policies of his predecessor Li Guoding, as the left wing of the People’s Rally called for, he would implement a social safety net and punitive welfare measures to help the rural and urban poor. Backed by popular approval, he won re-election to a second term, vowing to continue his populist crusade to help the lower classes.
[10] A foreign policy hawk but an economic moderate, Governor Zhu Rongji of Hunan defeats far-right nationalist and racist lawmaker Sha Zukang and Governor Chen Luan (Chen Li-an) of Zhejiang in the GMD primaries. Sha departs from the GMD and forms his own Great Chinese Party (GCP). Meanwhile, liberals in the People's Rally, led by Legislative Yuan President Liu Binyan of Jilin and Beiping Mayor Zhao Zhenkai, outraged by the domination of conservative populists, form their own Democratic Party. Zhu Rongji goes on to defeat Zhao Zhenkai (Democrat), Wang Hui (People's Rally) and Sha Zukang (GCP) in the de facto 4-way race by a narrow 26-23-22-20 margin. 4 years later, Zhu wins reelection by slightly wider margin thanks to a strong economy, beating Liao Yiwu (DP), Bo Xilai (PR) and Zhu Chenghu (GCP) by a 34-25-23-9 margin.

POD: Mao resigns his paramount authority in 1956 as planned, handing power off to his subordinate, Liu Shaoqi.

Paramounts Leader of the People's Republic of China
(1949-1956) Mao Zedong (CPC)
(1956-1964) Liu Shaoqi (CPC)
(1964-????) Lin Biao (CPC) [1]
[1] Outraged by Liu Shaoqi's support towards "Soviet revisionism", Lin Biao stages a coup against Liu Shaoqi and installs himself leader of China. Mao has died in 1959 of a sudden heart attack in TTL.

[Tsao]

POD: Yuan Shikai's attempt on Song Jiaoren's life fails in 1913

Presidents of the Republic of China

(1912-1917) Song Jiaoren - Guomindang [1]
(1917-1923) Liao Zhongkai - Guomindang [2]
(1922-1924) Beiyang-Guomindang War
(1922-1924) Xu Shichang - Beiyang Clique
(1924-1937) Feng Yuxiang - Guomindang [3]
(1937-1940) Hu Hanmin - Guomindang [4]
(1940-1941) Yan Xishan - Guomindang [5]
(1941-1956) Yang Hucheng - People's Rally [6]
(1956-1972) Zhu De - People's Rally [7]
(1972-1984) Li Guoding - Guomindang [8]
(1984-1992) Liao Chengzhi - People's Rally [9]
(1992-2000) Rong Yiren - People's Rally
(2000-2008) Zhu Rongji - Guomindang [10]
(2008-Present) Wu Bangguo - Guomingdang

[1] Song won the Republic of China's first election in 1912. He survived an assassination attempt in 1913, which was subsequently linked to northern military strongman Yuan Shikai and his supporters. Public opinion swung against Yuan, who marches on the Chinese National Assembly and attempts to disband the Guomindang (GMD). However, as popular support favored Song's party, he eventually defeated Yuan Shikai in the "Second Revolution" of 1915, and managed to serve for a full term.
[2] A prominent politician from Guangdong, he managed to win a narrow victory over Liang Qichao and his "Reformist Party", cementing his hold in office. During his tenure, various Northern generals, armed and financed by the Japanese and led by the brilliant Northern general Wu Peifu, launched a campaign against Liao and the Guomindang in 1922, capturing Peking on July 24th and executing key Nationalist officials such as Huang Xing, Wang Jingwei, and several others. Liao was wounded by a lone gunman during the fracas, and although he managed to flee the capital, he soon died of his wounds and was succeeded by the Nationalist general Feng Yuxiang, who continued the war against the Beiyang Clique from Nanjing. With Peking and much of the North and Northwest in his hands, Wu and his allies moved to consolidate their power, and named the late Yuan Shikai's friend and confidante Xu Shichang as President of China.
[3] In a lightning campaign, involving some of Asia's first use of aerial bombardment, Feng overthrew Xu and the Peking-based government, renaming the city Peiping. His authoritarian rule saw a crackdown on the opium trade and the "moral depravity" of Shanghai, as well as increased opening up to Western investment. He amended the Constitution to increase the Presidential term to six years, and won reelection in 1930. In 1936, he lost an internal power struggle in the GMD, and was for the remainder of his term a puppet of others. Western observers called him the "Chinese Cromwell", though critics have also likened him to a much more moral version of Porfirio Diaz.
[4] A prominent right-wing member of the GMD with links to the German military, Hu dominated Feng Yuxiang's government from 1933, and was elected after Feng's resignation in 1937. On April 7th, 1940, while walking in the gardens of Jingshan Park in Peiping, he was approached by two men in black suits, who called out to him. When he turned, the assassins brought out the revolvers hidden under their coats and yelled "Death to traitors!" and fired. Hu was shot twice in the chest and once in the leg, and died from blood loss soon after in a Peiping hospital. His assassins fled the scene, and despite a massive effort on the part of the police force, they were never apprehended. There has been some speculation on the matter of Hu's assassination, but it is generally accepted by modern scholars that it was either carried out by independent Qing loyalists or Traditionalists (of which quite a few existed in Peiping), or was ordered by a political rival of Hu's. Nevertheless, after Hu's death, rival factions within the Guomindang began to quarrel, splintering the party into many different factions, one of which (the left-wing Militant Clique) managed to pull off a political coup in Peiping in August 1940, placing one of their own, Yan Xishan, in office.
[5] Oversaw the permanent move of the capital to Nanjing. However, he was soon faced with a war with Japan, after he refused to accede to the Osaka Declaration allowing Japanese troops to use southern China as a launching point to attack Indochina, and died in 1941 defending Nanjing from Japanese attack.
[6] Endorsed by leftist elements of the KMT such as He Xiongning, Li Jishen, and Zhu De, left-leaning General Yang Hucheng became the new leader of China succeeding Yan Xishan, and would form his own centre-left People's Rally. After the war, Yang would restore democracy, push forward sweeping land and social reforms, and oversee the drafting of the 1947 Constitution (OOC: similar to the one we have now in Taiwan instead of the one in OTL 1947). Yang defeated KMT nominee He Yingqin by a 55-38 margin in the election of 1948, and would again win reelection over Wellington Koo by a 51-40 margin in 1950.
[7] A gifted leftist general of the Sino-Japanese War and one who had been a young man during the "Revolutionary Period" (1911-1917), as well as a colleague of the gifted diplomat Zhou Enlai among others, Zhu De broadly continued the policies of Yang, and also instituted a series of economic reforms known as "The Caidi Initiatives". During this period, the Chinese economy, once kept poor by war and famine, boomed as both foreign and Chinese investors flocked to the newly modernized Chinese industrial sector. Also developed during this period was Chinese animation, as the famous Wan brothers developed such films as The Little Princess, General Big Horse, and the famed Battle in Nanking, which was based off of the real battle of Nanking in 1941. All of these films became instant hits, and were the beginning of a new golden age in Chinese film & animation.
[8] More popularly known as Kwoh-ting Li or KT Li in the West, he defeats PR nominee Deng Xiaoping the election of 1972 by a narrow 39-38 margin. He would win reelections over Liu Binyan (PR) by a 65-17 margin in 1976, and Hu Yaobang (PR) by a 49-38 margin in 1980. Under his presidency, Li transforms China's agrarian-based economy into one of the world's leading industrial powers. His "Incoming Doubling Plan" in 1977 leads to a consumer revolution in China. By the time President Li retires, China has surpassed Germany and Japan, becoming the third largest economy in the world only after the United States and the newly-democratized Imperial States of Russia.
[9] The only son of former President of the ROC Liao Zhongkai, also known as Ch’eng-chih Liao or CC Liao in the west. His part surged on the backs of rural / agrarian voters and workers concerned that China’s embrace of economic progress was sacrificing Sun Yat-sen’s founding principles to boost exports and the technology sector. Though Liao Chengzhi would do little to roll back the policies of his predecessor Li Guoding, as the left wing of the People’s Rally called for, he would implement a social safety net and punitive welfare measures to help the rural and urban poor. Backed by popular approval, he won re-election to a second term, vowing to continue his populist crusade to help the lower classes.
[10] A foreign policy hawk but an economic moderate, Governor Zhu Rongji of Hunan defeats far-right nationalist and racist lawmaker Sha Zukang and Governor Chen Luan (Chen Li-an) of Zhejiang in the GMD primaries. Sha departs from the GMD and forms his own Great Chinese Party (GCP). Meanwhile, liberals in the People's Rally, led by Legislative Yuan President Liu Binyan of Jilin and Beiping Mayor Zhao Zhenkai, outraged by the domination of conservative populists, form their own Democratic Party. Zhu Rongji goes on to defeat Zhao Zhenkai (Democrat), Wang Hui (People's Rally) and Sha Zukang (GCP) in the de facto 4-way race by a narrow 26-23-22-20 margin. 4 years later, Zhu wins reelection by slightly wider margin thanks to a strong economy, beating Liao Yiwu (DP), Bo Xilai (PR) and Zhu Chenghu (GCP) by a 34-25-23-9 margin.

POD: Mao resigns his paramount authority in 1956 as planned, handing power off to his subordinate, Liu Shaoqi.

Paramounts Leader of the People's Republic of China
(1949-1956) Mao Zedong (CPC)
(1956-1964) Liu Shaoqi (CPC)
(1964-1975) Lin Biao (CPC) [1]
(1975) Hua Guofeng (CPC) [2]
(1975-????) Wei Guoqing (CPC) [2]

[1] Outraged by Liu Shaoqi's support towards "Soviet revisionism", Lin Biao stages a coup against Liu Shaoqi and installs himself leader of China. Mao has died in 1959 of a sudden heart attack in TTL.
[2] After Lin Biao's sudden death in 1975, there was a massive reshuffle and reorganization of the military and bureaucratic system under Lin's successor Hua Guofeng; in the resulting chaos, Wei Guoqing managed a political coup and ousted Hua Guofeng from power.

[Rediv]

POD: Mao resigns his paramount authority in 1956 as planned, handing power off to his subordinate, Liu Shaoqi.

Paramounts Leader of the People's Republic of China
(1949-1956) Mao Zedong (CPC)
(1956-1964) Liu Shaoqi (CPC)
(1964-1975) Lin Biao (CPC) [1]
(1975) Hua Guofeng (CPC) [2]
(1975-1976) Wei Guoqing (CPC) [2]
(1976-????) Huang Yongsheng (CPC) [3]

[1] Outraged by Liu Shaoqi's support towards "Soviet revisionism", Lin Biao stages a coup against Liu Shaoqi and installs himself leader of China. Mao has died in 1959 of a sudden heart attack in TTL.
[2] After Lin Biao's sudden death in 1975, there was a massive reshuffle and reorganization of the military and bureaucratic system under Lin's successor Hua Guofeng; in the resulting chaos, Wei Guoqing managed a political coup and ousted Hua Guofeng from power.
[3] Lin Biao’s former right hand man, purged during the 1973 “Three-Smashes, Three-Builds” campaign, forms a coalition of PLA generals to oust Wei Guoqing and his “Guangxi Clique,” restoring military dominance of China

[Tony]

POD: Mao resigns his paramount authority in 1956 as planned, handing power off to his subordinate, Liu Shaoqi.

Paramounts Leader of the People's Republic of China
(1949-1956) Mao Zedong (CPC)
(1956-1964) Liu Shaoqi (CPC)
(1964-1975) Lin Biao (CPC) [1]
(1975) Hua Guofeng (CPC) [2]
(1975-1976) Wei Guoqing (CPC) [2]
(1976-1982) Huang Yongsheng (CPC) [3]
(1982-????) Wu Faxian (CPC) [4]
[1] Outraged by Liu Shaoqi's support towards "Soviet revisionism", Lin Biao stages a coup against Liu Shaoqi and installs himself leader of China. Mao has died in 1959 of a sudden heart attack in TTL.
[2] After Lin Biao's sudden death in 1975, there was a massive reshuffle and reorganization of the military and bureaucratic system under Lin's successor Hua Guofeng; in the resulting chaos, Wei Guoqing managed a political coup and ousted Hua Guofeng from power.
[3] Lin Biao’s former right hand man, purged during the 1973 “Three-Smashes, Three-Builds” campaign, forms a coalition of PLA generals to oust Wei Guoqing and his “Guangxi Clique,” restoring military dominance of China.
[4] Another influential general in the Lin Biao era, Wu becomes leader of China after Huang's death in 1982. Once closely associated with deposed late Premier Zhou Enlai, Wu turns out to be far more moderate than his predecessors, pushing forward normalization of relationship with the Soviet Union and limited reforms. In 1987, leading intellectuals and writers such as Liu Binyan, Sha Yexin, Wang Ruowang, Guo Luoji, Hu Ping, Kong Jiesheng and Liao Yiwu co-sign Charter 87, openly demanding human rights, civil liberties and human dignity. The Wu Faxian government describes the manifesto as "an anti-state, anti-socialist, and demagogic, abusive piece of writing,", putting all Charter 87 signatories into prison or under house arrest.

[Tsao]

POD: Mao resigns his paramount authority in 1956 as planned, handing power off to his subordinate, Liu Shaoqi.

Paramounts Leader of the People's Republic of China

(1949-1956) Mao Zedong (CPC)
(1956-1964) Liu Shaoqi (CPC)
(1964-1975) Lin Biao (CPC) [1]
(1975) Hua Guofeng (CPC) [2]
(1975-1976) Wei Guoqing (CPC) [2]
(1976-1982) Huang Yongsheng (CPC) [3]
(1982-1985) Wu Faxian (CPC) [4]
(1985-1992) Hu Yaobang (CPC) [5]

[1] Outraged by Liu Shaoqi's support towards "Soviet revisionism", Lin Biao stages a coup against Liu Shaoqi and installs himself leader of China. Mao has died in 1959 of a sudden heart attack in TTL.
[2] After Lin Biao's sudden death in 1975, there was a massive reshuffle and reorganization of the military and bureaucratic system under Lin's successor Hua Guofeng; in the resulting chaos, Wei Guoqing managed a political coup and ousted Hua Guofeng from power.
[3] Lin Biao’s former right hand man, purged during the 1973 “Three-Smashes, Three-Builds” campaign, forms a coalition of PLA generals to oust Wei Guoqing and his “Guangxi Clique,” restoring military dominance of China.
[4] Another influential general in the Lin Biao era, Wu becomes leader of China after Huang's death in 1982. Once closely associated with deposed late Premier Zhou Enlai, Wu turns out to be far more moderate than his predecessors, pushing forward normalization of relationship with the Soviet Union and limited reforms. In 1987, leading intellectuals and writers such as Liu Binyan, Sha Yexin, Wang Ruowang, Guo Luoji, Hu Ping, Kong Jiesheng and Liao Yiwu co-sign Charter 87, openly demanding human rights, civil liberties and human dignity. The Wu Faxian government describes the manifesto as "an anti-state, anti-socialist, and demagogic, abusive piece of writing,", putting all Charter 87 signatories into prison or under house arrest.
[5] Deeply unpopular after the so-called "Eleven Eleven Incident" in the Sea of Japan in 1984, Wu died under suspicious circumstances the next year, and his death resulted in a wave of reforms (both economic and political) under his successor Hu Yaobang, a member of Wei Guoqing's clique of power. Limited economic reforms were allowed, and released many of the intellectuals who had been jailed by Wu Faixian.

[Zajir]

(1949-1956) Mao Zedong (CPC)
(1956-1964) Liu Shaoqi (CPC)
(1964-1975) Lin Biao (CPC) [1]
(1975) Hua Guofeng (CPC) [2]
(1975-1976) Wei Guoqing (CPC) [2]
(1976-1982) Huang Yongsheng (CPC) [3]
(1982-1985) Wu Faxian (CPC) [4]
(1985-1992) Hu Yaobang (CPC) [5]
(1992-1993) Lin Ziling (CPC-SDPC-GLPA-CA-DF-Coallition) [6]


[1] Outraged by Liu Shaoqi's support towards "Soviet revisionism", Lin Biao stages a coup against Liu Shaoqi and installs himself leader of China. Mao has died in 1959 of a sudden heart attack in TTL.
[2] After Lin Biao's sudden death in 1975, there was a massive reshuffle and reorganization of the military and bureaucratic system under Lin's successor Hua Guofeng; in the resulting chaos, Wei Guoqing managed a political coup and ousted Hua Guofeng from power.
[3] Lin Biao’s former right hand man, purged during the 1973 “Three-Smashes, Three-Builds” campaign, forms a coalition of PLA generals to oust Wei Guoqing and his “Guangxi Clique,” restoring military dominance of China.
[4] Another influential general in the Lin Biao era, Wu becomes leader of China after Huang's death in 1982. Once closely associated with deposed late Premier Zhou Enlai, Wu turns out to be far more moderate than his predecessors, pushing forward normalization of relationship with the Soviet Union and limited reforms. In 1987, leading intellectuals and writers such as Liu Binyan, Sha Yexin, Wang Ruowang, Guo Luoji, Hu Ping, Kong Jiesheng and Liao Yiwu co-sign Charter 87, openly demanding human rights, civil liberties and human dignity. The Wu Faxian government describes the manifesto as "an anti-state, anti-socialist, and demagogic, abusive piece of writing,", putting all Charter 87 signatories into prison or under house arrest.
[5] Deeply unpopular after the so-called "Eleven Eleven Incident" in the Sea of Japan in 1984, Wu died under suspicious circumstances the next year, and his death resulted in a wave of reforms (both economic and political) under his successor Hu Yaobang, a member of Wei Guoqing's clique of power. Limited economic reforms were allowed, and released many of the intellectuals who had been jailed by Wu Faixian.
[6] After the economic liberalisation plans of Hu Yaobang resulted in the collapse of many state onwed industries, massive demonstrations forced the CPC, to enter a coallition government with the newly constituited democratic parties (Democratic Forum,Civic Association and the General League of Peoples Associations) and with the CPC splinter party the Social Democratic Party of China.

[Tony]

(1949-1956) Mao Zedong (CPC)
(1956-1964) Liu Shaoqi (CPC)
(1964-1975) Lin Biao (CPC) [1]
(1975) Hua Guofeng (CPC) [2]
(1975-1976) Wei Guoqing (CPC) [2]
(1976-1982) Huang Yongsheng (CPC) [3]
(1982-1985) Wu Faxian (CPC) [4]
(1985-1992) Hu Yaobang (CPC) [5]
(1992-1993) Lin Ziling (CPC-SDPC-GLPA-CA-DF-Coallition) [6]
(1993-2001) Liu Binyan (GLPA) [7]

[1] Outraged by Liu Shaoqi's support towards "Soviet revisionism", Lin Biao stages a coup against Liu Shaoqi and installs himself leader of China. Mao has died in 1959 of a sudden heart attack in TTL.
[2] After Lin Biao's sudden death in 1975, there was a massive reshuffle and reorganization of the military and bureaucratic system under Lin's successor Hua Guofeng; in the resulting chaos, Wei Guoqing managed a political coup and ousted Hua Guofeng from power.
[3] Lin Biao’s former right hand man, purged during the 1973 “Three-Smashes, Three-Builds” campaign, forms a coalition of PLA generals to oust Wei Guoqing and his “Guangxi Clique,” restoring military dominance of China.
[4] Another influential general in the Lin Biao era, Wu becomes leader of China after Huang's death in 1982. Once closely associated with deposed late Premier Zhou Enlai, Wu turns out to be far more moderate than his predecessors, pushing forward normalization of relationship with the Soviet Union and limited reforms. In 1987, leading intellectuals and writers such as Liu Binyan, Sha Yexin, Wang Ruowang, Guo Luoji, Hu Ping, Kong Jiesheng and Liao Yiwu co-sign Charter 87, openly demanding human rights, civil liberties and human dignity. The Wu Faxian government describes the manifesto as "an anti-state, anti-socialist, and demagogic, abusive piece of writing,", putting all Charter 87 signatories into prison or under house arrest.
[5] Deeply unpopular after the so-called "Eleven Eleven Incident" in the Sea of Japan in 1984, Wu died under suspicious circumstances the next year, and his death resulted in a wave of reforms (both economic and political) under his successor Hu Yaobang, a member of Wei Guoqing's clique of power. Limited economic reforms were allowed, and released many of the intellectuals who had been jailed by Wu Faixian.
[6] After the economic liberalisation plans of Hu Yaobang resulted in the collapse of many state onwed industries, massive demonstrations forced the CPC, to enter a coallition government with the newly constituited democratic parties (Democratic Forum,Civic Association and the General League of Peoples Associations) and with the CPC splinter party the Social Democratic Party of China.
[7] The first-ever presidential election is held in China in March 1993. The CPC nominates Lin Liguo, a deeply unpopular figure. Reformists in the CPC as well as all opposition parties endorse Liu Binyan, nominee of the General League of Peoples Associations in the second round, who defeats Lin Liguo by a narrow margin of 3.2%. Liu pushes forward heavy cultural, social and political reforms and national reconciliation, and the economy begins to rebound from the chaos in the early 1990s. He wins his second term by 54% of votes in the first round in 1997, transforming China into a fully-functioned democracy by the end of his term.

[Tsao]

(1949-1956) Mao Zedong (CPC)
(1956-1964) Liu Shaoqi (CPC)
(1964-1975) Lin Biao (CPC) [1]
(1975) Hua Guofeng (CPC) [2]
(1975-1976) Wei Guoqing (CPC) [2]
(1976-1982) Huang Yongsheng (CPC) [3]
(1982-1985) Wu Faxian (CPC) [4]
(1985-1992) Hu Yaobang (CPC) [5]
(1992-1993) Lin Ziling (CPC-SDPC-GLPA-CA-DF-Coalition) [6]
(1993-2001) Liu Binyan (GLPA) [7]
(2001-Present) Chen Changzhi (GLPA)


[1] Outraged by Liu Shaoqi's support towards "Soviet revisionism", Lin Biao stages a coup against Liu Shaoqi and installs himself leader of China. Mao has died in 1959 of a sudden heart attack in TTL.
[2] After Lin Biao's sudden death in 1975, there was a massive reshuffle and reorganization of the military and bureaucratic system under Lin's successor Hua Guofeng; in the resulting chaos, Wei Guoqing managed a political coup and ousted Hua Guofeng from power.
[3] Lin Biao’s former right hand man, purged during the 1973 “Three-Smashes, Three-Builds” campaign, forms a coalition of PLA generals to oust Wei Guoqing and his “Guangxi Clique,” restoring military dominance of China.
[4] Another influential general in the Lin Biao era, Wu becomes leader of China after Huang's death in 1982. Once closely associated with deposed late Premier Zhou Enlai, Wu turns out to be far more moderate than his predecessors, pushing forward normalization of relationship with the Soviet Union and limited reforms. In 1987, leading intellectuals and writers such as Liu Binyan, Sha Yexin, Wang Ruowang, Guo Luoji, Hu Ping, Kong Jiesheng and Liao Yiwu co-sign Charter 87, openly demanding human rights, civil liberties and human dignity. The Wu Faxian government describes the manifesto as "an anti-state, anti-socialist, and demagogic, abusive piece of writing,", putting all Charter 87 signatories into prison or under house arrest.
[5] Deeply unpopular after the so-called "Eleven Eleven Incident" in the Sea of Japan in 1984, Wu died under suspicious circumstances the next year, and his death resulted in a wave of reforms (both economic and political) under his successor Hu Yaobang, a member of Wei Guoqing's clique of power. Limited economic reforms were allowed, and released many of the intellectuals who had been jailed by Wu Faixian.
[6] After the economic liberalisation plans of Hu Yaobang resulted in the collapse of many state onwed industries, massive demonstrations forced the CPC, to enter a coallition government with the newly constituited democratic parties (Democratic Forum,Civic Association and the General League of Peoples Associations) and with the CPC splinter party the Social Democratic Party of China.
[7] The first-ever presidential election is held in China in March 1993. The CPC nominates Lin Liguo, a deeply unpopular figure. Reformists in the CPC as well as all opposition parties endorse Liu Binyan, nominee of the General League of Peoples Associations in the second round, who defeats Lin Liguo by a narrow margin of 3.2%. Liu pushes forward heavy cultural, social and political reforms and national reconciliation, and the economy begins to rebound from the chaos in the early 1990s. He wins his second term by 54% of votes in the first round in 1997, transforming China into a fully-functioned democracy by the end of his term.

New list!

POD:

[Tony]

1915-1918: Yuan Shikai (Progressive) [1]
[1] Song Jiaoren escapes death, and become Prime Minister of China, leading to a power struggle between the presidential palace and the state council (府院之爭). Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, Liang Qichao, the pro-Yuan Progressive Party leader convinces Yuan to make a gamble - by introducing direct election to the presidency in the new constitution. Capitalizing on public mood against political infighting and Song, Yuan wins a landslide victory in the election of 1915. Nevertheless, Yuan dies 3 years later and is succeeded by Vice President _________.

[Tsao]

POD: Song Jiaoren escapes Death, Take 2

1915-1918: Yuan Shikai (Progressive) [1]
1918-1921: Zhao Bingjun (Progressive) [2]

[1] Song Jiaoren escapes death, and become Prime Minister of China, leading to a power struggle between the presidential palace and the state council (府院之爭). Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, Liang Qichao, the pro-Yuan Progressive Party leader convinces Yuan to make a gamble - by introducing direct election to the presidency in the new constitution. Capitalizing on public mood against political infighting and Song, Yuan wins a landslide victory in the election of 1915. Nevertheless, Yuan dies three years later and is succeeded by Vice President Zhao Bingjun.
[2] Zhao, a former security official and policeman of the Qing dynasty, succeeded Yuan after his death in 1918. Zhao was by no means a smooth political operator, and was quickly sidelined by his cabinet and the Premier Liang Shiyi, a powerful businessman and the leader of the so-called Communications Clique with Peking. Zhao was killed during a hunting accident in Shandong in June; many believed that he was actually assassinated on the orders of Liang.

[Tony]

POD: Song Jiaoren escapes Death, Take 2

1915-1918: Yuan Shikai (Progressive) [1]
1918-1921: Zhao Bingjun (Progressive) [2]
1921-1927: Li Yuanhong (Progressive)

[1] Song Jiaoren escapes death, and become Prime Minister of China, leading to a power struggle between the presidential palace and the state council (府院之爭). Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, Liang Qichao, the pro-Yuan Progressive Party leader convinces Yuan to make a gamble - by introducing direct election to the presidency in the new constitution. Capitalizing on public mood against political infighting and Song, Yuan wins a landslide victory in the election of 1915. Nevertheless, Yuan dies three years later and is succeeded by Vice President Zhao Bingjun.
[2] Zhao, a former security official and policeman of the Qing dynasty, succeeded Yuan after his death in 1918. Zhao was by no means a smooth political operator, and was quickly sidelined by his cabinet and the Premier Liang Shiyi, a powerful businessman and the leader of the so-called Communications Clique with Peking. Zhao was killed during a hunting accident in Shandong in June; many believed that he was actually assassinated on the orders of Liang
[3] Once succeeding President Zhao, President Li tries to restore presidential authority and civil liberties in the Yuan era. Attempting to carry out social reforms, President Li sacks Liang Shiyi, but Liang refuses to resign, instead convinced General Zhang Xueliang to stage a coup. Getting the key support of General Wu Peifu, the coup was defeated after Wu mobilized troops into Peking. Wu Peifu refuses to become prime minister, instead convincing President Li to appoint Liang Qichao. With the aid of Adolph Joffe, Wu founds the Beiyang Military Academy, becoming its founding director. Li refuses to run for reelection in 1927, and is succeeded by ______________. While the Progressive Party moves closer to the Soviet Union, KMT leaders like Song Jiaoren and Wang Jingwei begin to get closer with the Takashi Hara government in Tokyo.

[Tsao]

POD: Song Jiaoren escapes Death, Take 2

1915-1918: Yuan Shikai (Progressive) [1]
1918-1921: Zhao Bingjun (Progressive) [2]
1921-1927: Li Yuanhong (Progressive) [3]
1927-1929: Xu Shichang (Progressive)
1929: The Coup of the Three Zhangs (Conservative) [4]

[1] Song Jiaoren escapes death, and become Prime Minister of China, leading to a power struggle between the presidential palace and the state council (府院之爭). Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, Liang Qichao, the pro-Yuan Progressive Party leader convinces Yuan to make a gamble - by introducing direct election to the presidency in the new constitution. Capitalizing on public mood against political infighting and Song, Yuan wins a landslide victory in the election of 1915. Nevertheless, Yuan dies three years later and is succeeded by Vice President Zhao Bingjun.
[2] Zhao, a former security official and policeman of the Qing dynasty, succeeded Yuan after his death in 1918. Zhao was by no means a smooth political operator, and was quickly sidelined by his cabinet and the Premier Liang Shiyi, a powerful businessman and the leader of the so-called Communications Clique with Peking. Zhao was killed during a hunting accident in Shandong in June; many believed that he was actually assassinated on the orders of Liang
[3] Once succeeding President Zhao, President Li tries to restore presidential authority and civil liberties in the Yuan era. Attempting to carry out social reforms, President Li sacks Liang Shiyi, but Liang refuses to resign, instead convinced General Zhang Xueliang to stage a coup. Getting the key support of General Wu Peifu, the coup was defeated after Wu mobilized troops into Peking. Wu Peifu refuses to become prime minister, instead convincing President Li to appoint Liang Qichao. With the aid of Adolph Joffe, Wu founds the Beiyang Military Academy, becoming its founding director. Li refuses to run for reelection in 1927, and is succeeded by Xu Shicang, a member of the Old Guard clique in Peiping. While the Progressive Party moves closer to the Soviet Union, KMT leaders like Song Jiaoren and Wang Jingwei begin to get closer with the Takashi Hara government in Tokyo.
[4] After Xu's death,The Conservative Party of Zhang Jinghui stages a coup, and the capital is occupied by Zhang Zuolin's Northern Army and placed under military rule. However, they are quickly ousted by the pro-KMT general Li Zongren, who arrests Zhang Jinghui and dislodges the Fengtian Army. Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang flee to Japan, and the KMT leader Sun Zhongshan is made Prime Minister, with ____________ as president.

[Tony]

POD: Song Jiaoren escapes Death, Take 2

1915-1918: Yuan Shikai (Progressive) [1]
1918-1921: Zhao Bingjun (Progressive) [2]
1921-1927: Li Yuanhong (Progressive) [3]
1927-1929: Xu Shichang (Progressive)
1929: The Coup of the Three Zhangs (Conservative) [4]
1929-1948: Song Jiaoren [5]
[1] Song Jiaoren escapes death, and become Prime Minister of China, leading to a power struggle between the presidential palace and the state council (府院之爭). Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, Liang Qichao, the pro-Yuan Progressive Party leader convinces Yuan to make a gamble - by introducing direct election to the presidency in the new constitution. Capitalizing on public mood against political infighting and Song, Yuan wins a landslide victory in the election of 1915. Nevertheless, Yuan dies three years later and is succeeded by Vice President Zhao Bingjun.
[2] Zhao, a former security official and policeman of the Qing dynasty, succeeded Yuan after his death in 1918. Zhao was by no means a smooth political operator, and was quickly sidelined by his cabinet and the Premier Liang Shiyi, a powerful businessman and the leader of the so-called Communications Clique with Peking. Zhao was killed during a hunting accident in Shandong in June; many believed that he was actually assassinated on the orders of Liang
[3] Once succeeding President Zhao, President Li tries to restore presidential authority and civil liberties in the Yuan era. Attempting to carry out social reforms, President Li sacks Liang Shiyi, but Liang refuses to resign, instead convinced General Zhang Xueliang to stage a coup. Getting the key support of General Wu Peifu, the coup was defeated after Wu mobilized troops into Peking. Wu Peifu refuses to become prime minister, instead convincing President Li to appoint Liang Qichao. With the aid of Adolph Joffe, Wu founds the Beiyang Military Academy, becoming its founding director. Li refuses to run for reelection in 1927, and is succeeded by Xu Shicang, a member of the Old Guard clique in Peiping. While the Progressive Party moves closer to the Soviet Union, KMT leaders like Song Jiaoren and Wang Jingwei begin to get closer with the Takashi Hara government in Tokyo.
[4] After Xu's death,The Conservative Party of Zhang Jinghui stages a coup, and the capital is occupied by Zhang Zuolin's Northern Army and placed under military rule. However, they are quickly ousted by the pro-KMT general Li Zongren, who arrests Zhang Jinghui and dislodges the Fengtian Army. Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang flee to Japan, and the KMT leader Sun Zhongshan is made Prime Minister, with Song Jiaoren as president.
[5] Song Jiaoren, heavily inspired by Ikki Kita, his best friend (in OTL as well), and having lost confidence in democracy; begins to move towards "right-wing socialism" and at the same time becomes increasingly authoritarian. After the death of Sun in 1930, Song dissolves the national assembly, and begins getting rid of his rivals. In 1933, Ikki Kita becomes prime minister of Japan, a Sino-Japanese Alliance is formed, with the aim to liberate Asia from imperialists. Later, China and Japan would form the Anti-Communist Axis with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

In WW2, China manages to sweep most of South Asia but gets stuck in India. The Chinese bombard of Pearl Harbor in 1942 was proven incredibly stupid. Also, the Operation Barbarossa is proven a disaster, neither Germany, China or Japan is able to fight a two-front war. The European War ends in 1946, while the Pacific and Indian War ends in 1948 when President Truman orders the nuclear destruction of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Chongqing, Nanjing, Wuchang, Harbin and Guangzhou. President Song commits suicide. Korea, Taiwan, Outer Mongolia, Tibet, and East Turkey gains independence. Colonial masters regain their territories before the wave of decolonization, and China and Japan would be divided into occupation zones between Thailand(:D), the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France.

[Tsao]

POD: Song Jiaoren escapes Death, Take 2

1915-1918: Yuan Shikai (Progressive) [1]
1918-1921: Zhao Bingjun (Progressive) [2]
1921-1927: Li Yuanhong (Progressive) [3]
1927-1929: Xu Shichang (Progressive)
1929: The Coup of the Three Zhangs (Conservative) [4]
1929-1948: Song Jiaoren (Kuomingtang) [5]
1948-1954: The Allied Occupation [6]

[1] Song Jiaoren escapes death, and become Prime Minister of China, leading to a power struggle between the presidential palace and the state council (府院之爭). Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, Liang Qichao, the pro-Yuan Progressive Party leader convinces Yuan to make a gamble - by introducing direct election to the presidency in the new constitution. Capitalizing on public mood against political infighting and Song, Yuan wins a landslide victory in the election of 1915. Nevertheless, Yuan dies three years later and is succeeded by Vice President Zhao Bingjun.
[2] Zhao, a former security official and policeman of the Qing dynasty, succeeded Yuan after his death in 1918. Zhao was by no means a smooth political operator, and was quickly sidelined by his cabinet and the Premier Liang Shiyi, a powerful businessman and the leader of the so-called Communications Clique with Peking. Zhao was killed during a hunting accident in Shandong in June; many believed that he was actually assassinated on the orders of Liang
[3] Once succeeding President Zhao, President Li tries to restore presidential authority and civil liberties in the Yuan era. Attempting to carry out social reforms, President Li sacks Liang Shiyi, but Liang refuses to resign, instead convinced General Zhang Xueliang to stage a coup. Getting the key support of General Wu Peifu, the coup was defeated after Wu mobilized troops into Peking. Wu Peifu refuses to become prime minister, instead convincing President Li to appoint Liang Qichao. With the aid of Adolph Joffe, Wu founds the Beiyang Military Academy, becoming its founding director. Li refuses to run for reelection in 1927, and is succeeded by Xu Shicang, a member of the Old Guard clique in Peiping. While the Progressive Party moves closer to the Soviet Union, KMT leaders like Song Jiaoren and Wang Jingwei begin to get closer with the Takashi Hara government in Tokyo.
[4] After Xu's death,The Conservative Party of Zhang Jinghui stages a coup, and the capital is occupied by Zhang Zuolin's Northern Army and placed under military rule. However, they are quickly ousted by the pro-KMT general Li Zongren, who arrests Zhang Jinghui and dislodges the Fengtian Army. Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang flee to Japan, and the KMT leader Sun Zhongshan is made Prime Minister, with Song Jiaoren as president.
[5] Song Jiaoren, heavily inspired by Ikki Kita, his best friend (in OTL as well), and having lost confidence in democracy; begins to move towards "right-wing socialism" and at the same time becomes increasingly authoritarian. After the death of Sun in 1930, Song dissolves the national assembly, and begins getting rid of his rivals. In 1933, Ikki Kita becomes prime minister of Japan, a Sino-Japanese Alliance is formed, with the aim to liberate Asia from imperialists. Later, China and Japan would form the Anti-Communist Axis with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

In WW2, China manages to sweep most of South Asia but gets stuck in India. The Chinese bombard of Pearl Harbor in 1942 was proven incredibly stupid. Also, the Operation Barbarossa is proven a disaster, neither Germany, China or Japan is able to fight a two-front war. The European War ends in 1946, while the Pacific and Indian War ends in 1948 when President Truman orders the nuclear destruction of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Chongqing, Nanjing, Wuchang, Harbin and Guangzhou. President Song commits suicide. Korea, Taiwan, Outer Mongolia, Tibet, and East Turkey gains independence. Colonial masters regain their territories before the wave of decolonization, and China and Japan would be divided into occupation zones between Thailand(:D), the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France.
[6] After the Shandong Protests of 1952, the Allies decided to end their occupation; China becomes independent on May 15th, 1954 after the occupying troops withdrew. In both China and Japan, Allied-friendly rulers are placed in power, and are strictly forbidden from making any moves to rebuild their shattered military forces.

[Tony]

POD: Song Jiaoren escapes Death, Take 2

1915-1918: Yuan Shikai (Progressive) [1]
1918-1921: Zhao Bingjun (Progressive) [2]
1921-1927: Li Yuanhong (Progressive) [3]
1927-1929: Xu Shichang (Progressive)
1929: The Coup of the Three Zhangs (Conservative) [4]
1929-1948: Song Jiaoren (Kuomingtang) [5]
1948-1954: The Allied Occupation [6]
1954-1966: Liang Sicheng (Social Democratic) [7]

[1] Song Jiaoren escapes death, and become Prime Minister of China, leading to a power struggle between the presidential palace and the state council (府院之爭). Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, Liang Qichao, the pro-Yuan Progressive Party leader convinces Yuan to make a gamble - by introducing direct election to the presidency in the new constitution. Capitalizing on public mood against political infighting and Song, Yuan wins a landslide victory in the election of 1915. Nevertheless, Yuan dies three years later and is succeeded by Vice President Zhao Bingjun.
[2] Zhao, a former security official and policeman of the Qing dynasty, succeeded Yuan after his death in 1918. Zhao was by no means a smooth political operator, and was quickly sidelined by his cabinet and the Premier Liang Shiyi, a powerful businessman and the leader of the so-called Communications Clique with Peking. Zhao was killed during a hunting accident in Shandong in June; many believed that he was actually assassinated on the orders of Liang
[3] Once succeeding President Zhao, President Li tries to restore presidential authority and civil liberties in the Yuan era. Attempting to carry out social reforms, President Li sacks Liang Shiyi, but Liang refuses to resign, instead convinced General Zhang Xueliang to stage a coup. Getting the key support of General Wu Peifu, the coup was defeated after Wu mobilized troops into Peking. Wu Peifu refuses to become prime minister, instead convincing President Li to appoint Liang Qichao. With the aid of Adolph Joffe, Wu founds the Beiyang Military Academy, becoming its founding director. Li refuses to run for reelection in 1927, and is succeeded by Xu Shicang, a member of the Old Guard clique in Peiping. While the Progressive Party moves closer to the Soviet Union, KMT leaders like Song Jiaoren and Wang Jingwei begin to get closer with the Takashi Hara government in Tokyo.
[4] After Xu's death,The Conservative Party of Zhang Jinghui stages a coup, and the capital is occupied by Zhang Zuolin's Northern Army and placed under military rule. However, they are quickly ousted by the pro-KMT general Li Zongren, who arrests Zhang Jinghui and dislodges the Fengtian Army. Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang flee to Japan, and the KMT leader Sun Zhongshan is made Prime Minister, with Song Jiaoren as president.
[5] Song Jiaoren, heavily inspired by Ikki Kita, his best friend (in OTL as well), and having lost confidence in democracy; begins to move towards "right-wing socialism" and at the same time becomes increasingly authoritarian. After the death of Sun in 1930, Song dissolves the national assembly, and begins getting rid of his rivals. In 1933, Ikki Kita becomes prime minister of Japan, a Sino-Japanese Alliance is formed, with the aim to liberate Asia from imperialists. Later, China and Japan would form the Anti-Communist Axis with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

In WW2, China manages to sweep most of South Asia but gets stuck in India. The Chinese bombard of Pearl Harbor in 1942 was proven incredibly stupid. Also, the Operation Barbarossa is proven a disaster, neither Germany, China or Japan is able to fight a two-front war. The European War ends in 1946, while the Pacific and Indian War ends in 1948 when President Truman orders the nuclear destruction of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Chongqing, Nanjing, Wuchang, Harbin and Guangzhou. President Song commits suicide. Korea, Taiwan, Outer Mongolia, Tibet, and East Turkey gains independence. Colonial masters regain their territories before the wave of decolonization, and China and Japan would be divided into occupation zones between Thailand(:D), the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France.
[6] After the Shandong Protests of 1952, the Allies decided to end their occupation; China becomes independent on May 15th, 1954 after the occupying troops withdrew. In both China and Japan, Allied-friendly rulers are placed in power, and are strictly forbidden from making any moves to rebuild their shattered military forces
[7] Liang Sicheng, son of former Progressive prime minister Liang Qichao, is elected President of China with heavy blessings from the Allies, over Zhu Ziqing of the Chinese Independence Party. President Liang appoints Kwoh-ting Li, CEO of the Chinese Shipbuilding Corporation prime minister, who is widely remembered as the father of the Chinese economic miracle. President Liang is however best remembered for his strong push for cultural preservation, environmental activities and massive restoration of ancient buildings in nuked cities. The Japanese War between Communist North and Capitalist South pushes China towards the capitalist camp, and China is allowed to maintain an indeed powerful Self-defense Force. Japan is divided between the Democratic Republic of Japan (Hokkaido and South Karafuto), and the Imperial Prefectures of Japan. Korea under Kim Gu becomes a permanent neutral state. Liang refuses to run for a fourth term and is succeeded by ____________.

[rcduggan]

POD: Song Jiaoren escapes Death, Take 2

1915-1918: Yuan Shikai (Progressive) [1]
1918-1921: Zhao Bingjun (Progressive) [2]
1921-1927: Li Yuanhong (Progressive) [3]
1927-1929: Xu Shichang (Progressive)
1929: The Coup of the Three Zhangs (Conservative) [4]
1929-1948: Song Jiaoren (Kuomingtang) [5]
1948-1954: The Allied Occupation [6]
1954-1966: Liang Sicheng (Social Democratic) [7]
1966-1970: Chen Qitian (Young China Party)

[1] Song Jiaoren escapes death, and become Prime Minister of China, leading to a power struggle between the presidential palace and the state council (府院之爭). Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, Liang Qichao, the pro-Yuan Progressive Party leader convinces Yuan to make a gamble - by introducing direct election to the presidency in the new constitution. Capitalizing on public mood against political infighting and Song, Yuan wins a landslide victory in the election of 1915. Nevertheless, Yuan dies three years later and is succeeded by Vice President Zhao Bingjun.
[2] Zhao, a former security official and policeman of the Qing dynasty, succeeded Yuan after his death in 1918. Zhao was by no means a smooth political operator, and was quickly sidelined by his cabinet and the Premier Liang Shiyi, a powerful businessman and the leader of the so-called Communications Clique with Peking. Zhao was killed during a hunting accident in Shandong in June; many believed that he was actually assassinated on the orders of Liang
[3] Once succeeding President Zhao, President Li tries to restore presidential authority and civil liberties in the Yuan era. Attempting to carry out social reforms, President Li sacks Liang Shiyi, but Liang refuses to resign, instead convinced General Zhang Xueliang to stage a coup. Getting the key support of General Wu Peifu, the coup was defeated after Wu mobilized troops into Peking. Wu Peifu refuses to become prime minister, instead convincing President Li to appoint Liang Qichao. With the aid of Adolph Joffe, Wu founds the Beiyang Military Academy, becoming its founding director. Li refuses to run for reelection in 1927, and is succeeded by Xu Shicang, a member of the Old Guard clique in Peiping. While the Progressive Party moves closer to the Soviet Union, KMT leaders like Song Jiaoren and Wang Jingwei begin to get closer with the Takashi Hara government in Tokyo.
[4] After Xu's death,The Conservative Party of Zhang Jinghui stages a coup, and the capital is occupied by Zhang Zuolin's Northern Army and placed under military rule. However, they are quickly ousted by the pro-KMT general Li Zongren, who arrests Zhang Jinghui and dislodges the Fengtian Army. Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang flee to Japan, and the KMT leader Sun Zhongshan is made Prime Minister, with Song Jiaoren as president.
[5] Song Jiaoren, heavily inspired by Ikki Kita, his best friend (in OTL as well), and having lost confidence in democracy; begins to move towards "right-wing socialism" and at the same time becomes increasingly authoritarian. After the death of Sun in 1930, Song dissolves the national assembly, and begins getting rid of his rivals. In 1933, Ikki Kita becomes prime minister of Japan, a Sino-Japanese Alliance is formed, with the aim to liberate Asia from imperialists. Later, China and Japan would form the Anti-Communist Axis with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

In WW2, China manages to sweep most of South Asia but gets stuck in India. The Chinese bombard of Pearl Harbor in 1942 was proven incredibly stupid. Also, the Operation Barbarossa is proven a disaster, neither Germany, China or Japan is able to fight a two-front war. The European War ends in 1946, while the Pacific and Indian War ends in 1948 when President Truman orders the nuclear destruction of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Chongqing, Nanjing, Wuchang, Harbin and Guangzhou. President Song commits suicide. Korea, Taiwan, Outer Mongolia, Tibet, and East Turkey gains independence. Colonial masters regain their territories before the wave of decolonization, and China and Japan would be divided into occupation zones between Thailand(:D), the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France.
[6] After the Shandong Protests of 1952, the Allies decided to end their occupation; China becomes independent on May 15th, 1954 after the occupying troops withdrew. In both China and Japan, Allied-friendly rulers are placed in power, and are strictly forbidden from making any moves to rebuild their shattered military forces
[7] Liang Sicheng, son of former Progressive prime minister Liang Qichao, is elected President of China with heavy blessings from the Allies, over Zhu Ziqing of the Chinese Independence Party. President Liang appoints Kwoh-ting Li, CEO of the Chinese Shipbuilding Corporation prime minister, who is widely remembered as the father of the Chinese economic miracle. President Liang is however best remembered for his strong push for cultural preservation, environmental activities and massive restoration of ancient buildings in nuked cities. The Japanese War between Communist North and Capitalist South pushes China towards the capitalist camp, and China is allowed to maintain an indeed powerful Self-defense Force. Japan is divided between the Democratic Republic of Japan (Hokkaido and South Karafuto), and the Imperial Prefectures of Japan. Korea under Kim Gu becomes a permanent neutral state. Liang refuses to run for a fourth term and is succeeded by Chen Qitian of the Young China Party.

[Tony]

POD: Song Jiaoren escapes Death, Take 2

1915-1918: Yuan Shikai (Progressive) [1]
1918-1921: Zhao Bingjun (Progressive) [2]
1921-1927: Li Yuanhong (Progressive) [3]
1927-1929: Xu Shichang (Progressive)
1929: The Coup of the Three Zhangs (Conservative) [4]
1929-1948: Song Jiaoren (Kuomingtang) [5]
1948-1954: The Allied Occupation [6]
1954-1966: Liang Sicheng (Social Democratic) [7]
1966-1970: Chen Qitian (Young China Party)
1970-79: Deng Xiaoping (Social Democratic) [8]

[1] Song Jiaoren escapes death, and become Prime Minister of China, leading to a power struggle between the presidential palace and the state council (府院之爭). Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, Liang Qichao, the pro-Yuan Progressive Party leader convinces Yuan to make a gamble - by introducing direct election to the presidency in the new constitution. Capitalizing on public mood against political infighting and Song, Yuan wins a landslide victory in the election of 1915. Nevertheless, Yuan dies three years later and is succeeded by Vice President Zhao Bingjun.
[2] Zhao, a former security official and policeman of the Qing dynasty, succeeded Yuan after his death in 1918. Zhao was by no means a smooth political operator, and was quickly sidelined by his cabinet and the Premier Liang Shiyi, a powerful businessman and the leader of the so-called Communications Clique with Peking. Zhao was killed during a hunting accident in Shandong in June; many believed that he was actually assassinated on the orders of Liang
[3] Once succeeding President Zhao, President Li tries to restore presidential authority and civil liberties in the Yuan era. Attempting to carry out social reforms, President Li sacks Liang Shiyi, but Liang refuses to resign, instead convinced General Zhang Xueliang to stage a coup. Getting the key support of General Wu Peifu, the coup was defeated after Wu mobilized troops into Peking. Wu Peifu refuses to become prime minister, instead convincing President Li to appoint Liang Qichao. With the aid of Adolph Joffe, Wu founds the Beiyang Military Academy, becoming its founding director. Li refuses to run for reelection in 1927, and is succeeded by Xu Shicang, a member of the Old Guard clique in Peiping. While the Progressive Party moves closer to the Soviet Union, KMT leaders like Song Jiaoren and Wang Jingwei begin to get closer with the Takashi Hara government in Tokyo.
[4] After Xu's death,The Conservative Party of Zhang Jinghui stages a coup, and the capital is occupied by Zhang Zuolin's Northern Army and placed under military rule. However, they are quickly ousted by the pro-KMT general Li Zongren, who arrests Zhang Jinghui and dislodges the Fengtian Army. Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang flee to Japan, and the KMT leader Sun Zhongshan is made Prime Minister, with Song Jiaoren as president.
[5] Song Jiaoren, heavily inspired by Ikki Kita, his best friend (in OTL as well), and having lost confidence in democracy; begins to move towards "right-wing socialism" and at the same time becomes increasingly authoritarian. After the death of Sun in 1930, Song dissolves the national assembly, and begins getting rid of his rivals. In 1933, Ikki Kita becomes prime minister of Japan, a Sino-Japanese Alliance is formed, with the aim to liberate Asia from imperialists. Later, China and Japan would form the Anti-Communist Axis with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

In WW2, China manages to sweep most of South Asia but gets stuck in India. The Chinese bombard of Pearl Harbor in 1942 was proven incredibly stupid. Also, the Operation Barbarossa is proven a disaster, neither Germany, China or Japan is able to fight a two-front war. The European War ends in 1946, while the Pacific and Indian War ends in 1948 when President Truman orders the nuclear destruction of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Chongqing, Nanjing, Wuchang, Harbin and Guangzhou. President Song commits suicide. Korea, Taiwan, Outer Mongolia, Tibet, and East Turkey gains independence. Colonial masters regain their territories before the wave of decolonization, and China and Japan would be divided into occupation zones between Thailand(:D), the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France.
[6] After the Shandong Protests of 1952, the Allies decided to end their occupation; China becomes independent on May 15th, 1954 after the occupying troops withdrew. In both China and Japan, Allied-friendly rulers are placed in power, and are strictly forbidden from making any moves to rebuild their shattered military forces
[7] Liang Sicheng, son of former Progressive prime minister Liang Qichao, is elected President of China with heavy blessings from the Allies, over Zhu Ziqing of the Chinese Independence Party. President Liang appoints Kwoh-ting Li, CEO of the Chinese Shipbuilding Corporation prime minister, who is widely remembered as the father of the Chinese economic miracle. President Liang is however best remembered for his strong push for cultural preservation, environmental activities and massive restoration of ancient buildings in nuked cities. The Japanese War between Communist North and Capitalist South pushes China towards the capitalist camp, and China is allowed to maintain an indeed powerful Self-defense Force. Japan is divided between the Democratic Republic of Japan (Hokkaido and South Karafuto), and the Imperial Prefectures of Japan. Korea under Kim Gu becomes a permanent neutral state. Liang refuses to run for a fourth term and is succeeded by Chen Qitian of the Young China Party.
[8] Popular Governor Deng Xiaoping of Sichuan defeats President Chen by a landslide during the worst economic recession since the post-war era, and would be regarded as the father of the Chinese economic miracle. He is reelected in 1974 and 1978 by wide margins, but is assassinated by Zhu Chenghu, a young extreme nationalist. He is succeeded by Vice President ___________.

[rcduggan]

thought I would try a new one, based on a TL I am writing (:p) .. want to see where, if anywhere, this goes.

POD: Liao Zhongkai cheats death, 1925.

1925-???? Liao Zhongkai (Guomindang - Leftist faction)

[Tsao]

Giving this a good bump...

POD: Liao Zhongkai cheats death, 1925.

(1925 - 1929) Liao Zhongkai (Guomindang - Leftist Faction)
(1929 - 1936) Wang Jingwei (Guomingdang - Leftist Faction) [1]

[1]Seizing power after Liao's sudden death (the circumstances of which were quite mysterious) in May of 1929, Wang continued his policies of cordial relations with the Soviet Union and cooperation with the CCP (China's relationship with the SU would have interesting consequences during WWII), despite widespread opposition from the rightist faction within the GMD. Wang subdued the Central Chinese warlords with the aid of Feng Yuxiang's Guominjun and the Shanxi warlord Yan Xishan, who also helped draft a new Chinese constitution. Beijing fell to joint GMD-GMC forces in early 1932, and the National government was moved there. Wang was assassinated in Shenyang (Mukden) in 1936 while negotiating with the Japanese sponsored Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin, either by the Manchurians, the Japanese, or rightist elements within the GMD itself (this is the commonly accepted theory today). His assassination soured relations between Zhang and the National government, and caused the United Front to splinter and allowed Zhang to further assert his independence; in 1937, supported by the Japanese, Zhang crowned himself Emperor and denounced the Republican government as invalid. Manchuria was now firmly in the Japanese sphere, setting the stage for the Second Sino-Japanese War, which China was woefully unprepared for...