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Also called: Tsai Ao
Soldier from Hunan who led the 1911 rising in Yunnan and, when Yuan Shikai moved to make himself emperor in 1915, slipped back to Yunnan to raise the National Protection Army
When Yuan Shikai moved to take the throne in December 1915, Cai E and others raised the National Protection Army in Yunnan on the 25th. As southern provinces declared independence one after another, Yuan gave up the monarchy after 83 days, and died of illness on 6 June 1916.
Late-Qing master of the Beiyang Army who meddled in Joseon affairs after the 1882 Imo Incident; in the 1911 Revolution he secured the emperor’s abdication and became president of the Republic, but his bid to make himself emperor failed
Brigade commander of the Hubei New Army who was pushed by the rebels into heading their military government after the Wuchang uprising of 1911, later vice-president and president of the Republic
From the Revive China Society to the death of Yuan Shikai — twenty-two years in which, amid debt and failed reform, revolutionaries and the New Army brought down the Qing and founded Asia’s first republic, which passed through dictatorship and a short-lived monarchy into the age of the warlords