Abstract
In April 1912, Yuan Shikai took the post of the great provisional president in Beijing and established “Beijing Zheng Fu” (Beijing Government). Although the form of a republic was maintained by the Beijing Government, it was successively ruled by different warlords. As a result, it was only a republic in name. Although Sun Yat-sen had twice launched the movement of “Hu Fa Yun Dong” (Constitution Protection Movements), both of them ended in failure.
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Zhang, J. (2020). The Developments and Setbacks of the Chinese Modern Legal Civilization During the Period of the Beijing Government (1912–1928). In: The History of Chinese Legal Civilization. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1032-3_13
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