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The Warlord Era was the period in the history of the Republic of China between 1916 and 1928, ... his wives and his guests. Gen. Zhang, the "Dogmeat General", ate his ...
The Warlord Era was a historical period of the Republic of China that began from 1916 and lasted until the mid-1930s, during which the country was divided and ruled by various military cliques following the death of Yuan Shikai in 1916. Communist revolution broke out in the later part of the warlord period, beginning the Chinese Civil War.
Although the government and the state were nominally under civilian control through the Republic's constitution, Yuan and his generals were effectively in charge of it. After Yuan's death in 1916, the army split into various warlord factions competing for power, leading to a period of civil war called the Warlord Era.
Warlords of the Warlord Era in the mainland Republic of China (1912–49), during the Republican period of Chinese history. Subcategories This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total.
The modern Warlord Era began in 1916 upon his death. The national government existed and handled foreign affairs, but it had little internal control until the late 1920s. [ 39 ] A period of provincial and local rule under military strongmen known as the Warlord Era lasted until the Kuomintang (KMT; Chinese Nationalist Party) consolidated its ...
Zhang Zongchang proved to be one of the more capable warlord generals, making effective use of armored trains. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Aided by his knowledge of the Russian language, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] he recruited thousands of White Russian refugees from the Russian Civil War ; [ 8 ] [ 9 ] he organized the men into specialized units, including a unit of ...
After the second dissolution of the National Assembly, the Manchu Restoration debacle, and the complete domination of the central government by the Beiyang generals, Yunnan joined several other southern provinces in forming a rival government in Guangzhou during the Constitutional Protection Movement. Tang Jiyao was chosen as one of the seven ...
The Republic of China's first president, Sun Yat-sen, chose Zhōnghuá Mínguó (中華民國; 'Chinese People's State') as the country's official Chinese name.The name was derived from the language of the Tongmenghui's 1905 party manifesto, which proclaimed that the four goals of the Chinese revolution were "to expel the Manchu rulers, revive China (), establish a people's state (mínguó ...