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Li Yuanhong
Military official chosen to head the Hubei government after the Wuchang Uprising
Mural of the event “Xinhai Revolution”, which this person took part in.
The Qing's late new policies and constitutional reform's hypocritical sluggishness had wholly lost the people's faith, and revolutionary parties through multiple uprisings made broad ideological mobilization for overthrowing the Qing. Revolutionary party members in the Wuchang New Army were waiting for the final outbreak moment.
Also known as Li Huangpi
- Roles
- Statesman / Official
Li Yuanhong, born in 1864, was from Huangpi in Hubei; by another account his family came from Susong in Anhui. He graduated from the Beiyang naval academy, served in the Beiyang navy and then moved to the Hubei New Army, where he commanded a brigade from 1906. After the Wuchang Uprising of 1911 the revolutionaries made him military governor of Hubei. He became vice president in 1912 and was president twice, in 1916 to 1917 and in 1922 to 1923. He died in Tianjin in 1928.
Life and times
Dates c. 1864 CE–1928 CE
- 1911Xinhai RevolutionTook part