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The Chinese Nationalist Party or guomindang was officially founded by Sun Yat-sen, a highly educated doctor who formed revolutionary groups within Chinese diasporas throughout the world, utilising what Marie Claire-Bergere (1998:6) termed ‘extreme geographic mobility’. After the Xinhai revolution, which successfully overthrew the Qing Empire, Sun was inaugurated in Nanjing as the first president of the Republic of China on January 1st, 1912 (Source 1). Strand (2011) comments: ‘A capital in Nanjing would break with the Qing use of Beijing as imperial centre.’ The Republic of China also adopted the western calendar as a sign of modernisation, breaking with thousands of years of tradition. Subsequently, the Qing emperor Puyi abdicated on February 12th, 1912 just over a month after Sun became president. However, in an attempt to avoid civil war, Sun quickly passed over the presidency to Yuan Shikai, an army general who played an instrumental role in the Qing’s overthrow and the emperor’s p

The Nationalist Party (国民党) Overview · The Nationalist Party (国民党） · Chinese History for Teachers Skip to main content The Nationalist Party (国民党) Overview The Chinese Nationalist Party or guomindang was officially founded by Sun Yat-sen, a highly educated doctor who formed revolutionary groups within Chinese diasporas throughout the world, utilising what Marie Claire-Bergere (1998:6) termed ‘extreme geographic mobility’. After the Xinhai revolution , which successfully overthrew the Qing Empire, Sun was inaugurated in Nanjing as the first president of the Republic of China on Ja

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