<Tr> <Th> Yengi Yeziⱪ </Th> <Td> Junghua Mingo </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Siril Yëziqi </Th> <Td> Җуңхуа Минго </Td> </Tr> <P> The Republic of China was a sovereign state in East Asia, that occupied the territories of modern China and for part of its history Mongolia and Taiwan . It was founded in 1912, after the Qing dynasty, the last imperial dynasty, was overthrown in the Xinhai Revolution . The Republic's first president, Sun Yat - sen, served only briefly before handing over the position to Yuan Shikai, former leader of the Beiyang Army . His party, then led by Song Jiaoren, won the parliamentary election held in December 1912 . Song was assassinated shortly after, and the Beiyang Army led by Yuan Shikai maintained full control of the government in Beijing . Between late 1915 and early 1916, Yuan tried to reinstate the monarchy, before resigning after popular unrest . After Yuan's death in 1916, members of cliques in the former Beiyang Army claimed their autonomy and clashed with each other . During this period, the authority of the republican government was weakened by a restoration of the Qing government . </P> <P> In 1925, Sun Yat - sen's Kuomintang started establishing a rival government in the southern city of Guangzhou together with the fledgling Communist Party of China . The economy of the north, overtaxed to support warlord adventurism, collapsed in 1927--28 . General Chiang Kai - shek, who became KMT leader after Sun's death, started his military Northern Expedition campaign in order to overthrow the central government in Beijing . The government was overthrown in 1928 and Chiang established a new nationalist government in Nanjing . He later cut his ties with the communists and expelled them from the Kuomintang . </P>

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