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Li Yüan-hung
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Li Yüan-hung (lē yüän-hng), 1864–1928, president of China (1916–17, 1922–23). A brigade commander under the Ch'ing dynasty, Li was compelled by army rebels to become military governor of Hubei prov. in the republican revolution of 1911. Elected vice president (1912) of the new republican government, Li assumed the presidency (1916) on the death of Yüan Shih-kai Yüan Shih-kai (yüän` shē`-kī`), 1859–1916, president of China (1912–16).
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 but was soon overshadowed by Tuan Ch'i-jui Tuan Ch'i-jui (dwän`chē-j
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, premier and leader of the Anfu warlord warlord, in modern Chinese history, autonomous regional military commander. In the political chaos following the death (1916) of republican China's first president and commander in chief, Yüan Shih-kai , central authority fell to the provincial military
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 clique. He was restored as president (1922) by the rival Chihli military clique in an unsuccessful attempt to conciliate the Kuomintang Kuomintang (gwō`mĭn`däng`, kwō`mĭntăng`) [Chin.
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