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The Republic of China president is called 總統 (Zǒngtǒng, "President"), and from 1912–1928, 大總統 (Dàzǒngtǒng, "Grand President"). Since 1949, the de facto territory of the ROC is reduced to Taiwan and its surrounding islands , the former previously ruled by Japan from 1895 to 1945, no longer governing mainland China .
This is a list of the presidents of the Republic of China.. The Republic of China controlled Mainland China before 1949. In the fall of 1949, the ROC government retreated to Taiwan and surrounding islands as a result of the takeover of the mainland by the Chinese Communist Party and founding of the People's Republic of China.
China Year: President Republic of China (Taiwan) President People's Republic of China (Mainland China) 1949 Li Zongren (acting): Mao Zedong (Paramount leader: Himself) 1950
Name (Birth–Death) Term of office Duration in years and days Cabinet Political party Legislature (elected) President; 5 Xu Shichang 徐世昌 (1855–1939) 1 May 1914: 21 December 1915 Xu S.-C. I Beiyang clique: 1st (1912) Yuan Shikai (Beiyang clique) 1 year, 234 days (2) Lu Zhengxiang 陸徵祥 Lù Zhēngxiáng (1871–1949) 22 December 1915 ...
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Tuesday said he will work hard to make historical memory last forever and reach out to everyone who cares about Chinese democracy, on the 35th anniversary of the ...
April 23 – Hu Die, Chinese actress (b. 1908) April 24 – Li Jingquan, Former Secretary of Sichuan (b. 1909) June 14 – Wei Guoqing, military and government official (b. 1913) July 28 – Fu Zhong, general (b. 1900) August 27 – Burhan Shahidi, Chinese Tatar politician (b. 1894) September 20 – Chen Boda, Chinese Communist political ...
Jiang Zemin [a] (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as president of China from 1993 to 2003.
Shortly after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Deng Xiaoping gave a speech which referred to Mao Zedong, himself, and Jiang Zemin as the respective "core" of the first, second, and third generations of leadership. This method of dividing Chinese leadership generations became popular.