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Hu Hanmin
Early Revolutionary Alliance editor and Sun Yat-sen's close aide who governed Guangdong, headed the Legislative Yuan and was detained by Chiang Kai-shek in 1931
A walled hilltop city with a tall brick gate tower stands above a pine-covered cliff, its wall running along the ridge, while a long wooden bridge crosses a wide river below and plains, islets and layered mountains stretch into the distance, with no person in view.
Also known as Hu Yanhong · Zi Zhantang
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Hu Hanmin, originally named Yanhong, courtesy name Zhantang, came from Panyu in Guangdong; born in 1879, he passed the provincial examination in 1902 and then studied in Japan. Joining the Revolutionary Alliance in 1905, he became a leading writer for its paper Minbao, debating Liang Qichao's reformist journal. After the 1911 revolution he was military governor of Guangdong, and in 1912 secretary-general to the provisional president at Nanjing. He was elected to the Kuomintang's central executive when the party was reorganised in 1924, but after Liao Zhongkai's assassination in 1925 he was forced to go abroad. When the Nanjing government adopted its five-branch structure in 1928 he became the first president of the Legislative Yuan, and in 1931 a dispute with Chiang Kai-shek over a provisional constitution led to his detention at Tangshan near Nanjing. He died of a stroke in Canton in May 1936.
Life and times
Dates 1879 CE–1936 CE