Word: shih
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explosion was the signal for revolutionaries who toppled the Manchu dynasty in ruins, and built unsteadily out of the debris the north-central republic under Yuan Shih-kai and the rival southern republic under Sun Yatsen. Both these "presidents" died,-the former at the height of power, allegedly by poison; the latter a weary exile in cold Peking. China became the spoil of numerous Tuchuns or provincial governors. One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence...
During the week one General Wang Shih Chien, not previously mentioned in despatches, took it upon himself to keep order at Peking with a handful of mercenaries, and generally mediated between the contending factions. Tuan Chi-jui and Tsao Kun, respectively "Chief Executive of China" and "Last President of China," each pretended during the week that he exercised the executive power. Both prudently announced these claims from unstated hiding places at Peking, since neither retained a shred of authority, though Tuan claimed to possess the Government seals...
...Added the non-partisan Yi Shih Pao: "The tariff autonomy proposal is a mere formula. . . .The result of the conference is easy to predict...
Justice: Chang Shih-chao...
...first President of the Chinese Republic was Yuan Shih-Kai, 1913-16; second, Li Yuan-Hung, when he retired on account of a restoration of the Monarchy; third, Peng Kwo-Chang, 1917-18 ; fourth, Hsu Shih-Chang, 1918-22 ; Li Yuan-Hung resumed the Presidency at the request of old Parliamentarians on June 11, 1922 and remained in office until last June...