THE EARLY REPUBLIC AND THE WARLORD PERIOD
...h – end of the monarchist movement Li Yuanhong became President The warlords revived opium cultivation Cai returned to China 1916-28 There were more than 7 heads of state in China 1917-23 The intellectual revolution 1917-18 Large loans were sent to the Beijing warlord government in return for extension of Japanese economic privileges in China 1917 The Russian Revolution The northern group, the Beiyang Clique was divied into Anhui Clique and Hebei Clique 1918 Secret pacts between Beijing and Tokyo 1918-1919 Czar announced the intention of giving up privileges 1918-20 Moscow tried to ally with some Chinese warlords 1919 The May Fourth Movement Arms Embargo Agreement Paris Peace Conference Versailles Conference A rise of a politically conscious merchant class and labour force 1919-21 John Dewey and his wife visited China 1920 Zhang Zuolin entered the struggle Sun allied with a warlord in Guangdong 1921 American educator Paul Monroe visited China Maring met Sun and tried to persuade cooperation 1921-22 Washington Conference 1922 Russia sent Adolf Joffe to Beijing to discuss the renegotiation of previous Russian rights in China Sun-Joffe Agreement Sun negotiated with the Manchurian warlord, Zhang Zuolin-an alliance against other warlords in central China 1923 Powers agreed to close all foreign post offices in China except those in the leased territories Sun sent a Jiang Jieshi to Soviet Russia to study the military system 1923-27 The First United Front 1924 Soviet adviser Borodin came to Guangzhou to reform the Nationalist Party’s organization Huangpu Military Acadamy was founded A pe...