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Song Jiaoren (Chinese: 宋敎仁; Chinese: 宋教仁; pinyin: Sòng Jiàorén; Wade–Giles: Sung Chiao-jen, [sʊ̂ŋ tɕjâʊɻə̌n]; Given name at birth: Liàn 鍊; Courtesy name: Dùnchū 鈍初) (5 April 1882 – 22 March 1913) was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the Kuomintang (KMT).
Song Jiaoren (born April 5, 1882, Taoyuan, Hunan province, China—died March 22, 1913, Shanghai) was the founder of the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), whose assassination blighted hopes for democratic government in China in the early 20th century.
Aug 24, 2022 · Song Jiaoren is China's "lost future," remembered as a democrat who opposed authoritarianism — and not for reneging on promises in the naive hope that he could build an electoral coalition. James Carter Published August 24, 2022. Tang Qunying, Song Jiaoren, Shen Peizhen. Read later.
Mar 3, 2013 · As he waited to board the train, Song Jiaoren, a slim 30-year-old with a thin moustache and wearing a western suit, was shot by a black-shirted assassin. He died two days later. With Song’s death ended China’s brief flirtation with electoral democracy, in which he had led the Kuomintang Party to victory in polls held over the ...
Mar 23, 2022 · Following the Xinhai Revolution, Song Jiaoren embodied China's hopes for a democratic future. He was destined to become the nascent republic's first prime minister — before he was murdered in Shanghai.
Song Jiaoren (5 April 1882 - 22 March 1913) was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the KMT. Song Jiaoren led the KMT to electoral victories in China's first democratic election.
Dec 22, 2012 · Song Jiaoren—30 years old, sporting a Western suit and a wisp of a moustache—had just brilliantly led his new political party, the Nationalists, to overwhelming success in parliamentary...
Mar 20, 2013 · Song Jiaoren was heading to Beijing to form a new government. He was to lead the largest electoral block in the new national Assembly. Song never made it.
Aug 26, 2022 · Song Jiaoren is China’s “lost future,” remembered as a democrat who opposed authoritarianism — and not for reneging on promises in the naive hope that he could build an electoral coalition. Click here to read the article by James Carter.
In March 1913 Song Jiaoren, the Guomindang’s parliamentary leader and an outspoken critic of Yuan Shikai, was gunned down in a Shanghai railway station. The murder was almost certainly ordered by Shikai’s supporters, if not the president himself.
