Yuan Shi Kai

British

/ ˈjuːˈæn ˈʃiː ˈkaɪ /

noun

1859–1916, Chinese general and statesman: first president (1912–16) of the Chinese republic

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He is an official of the Yuan Shi Kai school and has become a rich rubber merchant in Malay, and anyway they do not want a mere rubber merchant as President of the University, and they think they may so explain that to the new Chancellor that he will not look upon the office as so attractive as he thought it was.

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When Yuan Shi Kai was planning to be Emperor his son broke his leg, and he heard the hot springs would be good for him.

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Certainly there was no excuse for the following in a Chicago paper: President Yuan Shi Kai declared he was willing to permit Professor Frank Johnson Goodnow of Brooklyn, legal adviser to the Chinese government, to in August accept the presidency of Johns Hopkins University.

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The visitor in China gets used to casual references to the second revolution, that which frustrated Yuan Shi Kai’s aspirations to be emperor, and the third, the defeat in 1917 of the abortive attempt to put the Manchu boy emperor back into power.

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The war came to an unexpected and untimely end, but by this time the offspring of the marriage of the militarism of Yuan Shi Kai and Japanese money and influence was a lusty youth.

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