Yan Huiqing - Biography

Biography

A graduate of the University of Virginia, he taught the English language at Saint John's University, Shanghai in a short time after coming back from the United States and then went to Beijing to start his political career. It was in the US he became a Freemason.

He served as premier five times and simultaneously as acting president on his last premiership in 1926. Wu Peifu handpicked him for the acting presidency to pave the way for Cao Kun's restoration but he was unable to take office due to Zhang Zuolin's objection. When Yan finally took his post, he immediately resigned and appointed navy minister Du Xigui as his successor.

He was also China's first ambassador to the Soviet Union and he was a delegate in the League of Nations. During World War II, he translated and compiled Stories of Old China in Hong Kong while under Japanese house-arrest in 1942. He took his first plane trip in 1949 to Moscow in hopes of resolving the Chinese Civil War.

Political offices
Preceded by Jin Yunpeng	Premier of China 1921	Succeeded by Liang Shiyi
Preceded by Liang Shiyi	Premier of China 1922	Succeeded by Zhou Ziqi
Preceded by Zhou Ziqi	Premier of China 1922	Succeeded by Wang Chonghui
Preceded by Gu Weijun	Premier of China 1924	Succeeded by Huang Fu
Preceded by Hu Weide	President of the Republic of China 1926	Succeeded by Du Xigui
Preceded by Hu Weide	Premier of China 1926	Succeeded by Du Xigui

Presidents of the Republic of China

Provisional Government	Sun Yat-sen Yuan Shikai

Beiyang Government	Yuan Shikai Li Yuanhong Feng Guozhang Xu Shichang Zhou Ziqi Li Yuanhong Gao Lingwei Cao Kun Huang Fu Hu Weide Yan Huiqing Du Xigui Gu Weijun

Nationalist Government	Chiang Kai-shek Lin Sen Chiang Kai-shek

Constitutional Government	Chiang Kai-shek Li Zongren Chiang Kai-shek Yen Chia-kan Chiang Ching-kuo Lee Teng-hui Chen Shui-bian Ma Ying-jeou

Italics indicates acting President

Heads of government of the Republic of China

Premiers of Cabinet	Tang Shaoyi Lou Tseng-Tsiang Zhao Bingjun Duan Qirui* Xiong Xiling Sun Baoqi*

Secretaries of State	Xu Shichang Lou Tseng-Tsiang*

Premiers of State Council	Duan Qirui Wu Tingfang* Li Jingxi

Prime Minister of Restored Qing Imperial Government	Zhang Xun

Premiers of State Council	Duan Qirui Wang Daxie* Wang Shizhen* Qian Nengxun* Gong Xinzhan* Jin Yunpeng Sa Zhenbing Yan Huiqing* Liang Shiyi Zhou Ziqi* Wang Chonghui* Wang Zhengting* Zhang Shaozeng Gao Lingwei Sun Baoqi Wellington Koo Vi-kyuin* Huang Fu* Xu Shiying Jia Deyao* Hu Weide* Du Xigui* Pan Fu

Presidents of Executive Yuan	Tan Yankai T. V. Soong Tse-ven Chiang Kai-shek Chen Mingshu Sun Fo Wang Jingwei H. H. Kung Hsiang-hsi Chang Ch'ün Weng Wenhao Sun Fo He Yingqin Yan Xishan Chen Cheng Yu Hung-Chun Yen Chia-kan Chiang Ching-kuo Sun Yun-suan Yu Kuo-hwa Lee Huan Hau Pei-tsun Lien Chan Vincent Siew Wan-chang Tang Fei Chang Chun-hsiung Yu Shyi-kun Frank Hsieh Chang-ting Su Tseng-chang Liu Chao-shiuan Wu Den-yih Sean Chen Chun

Warlord era in early Republic of China (1916–1930)

Main events (1916–1920)	Main events (1920–1930)	Northern Factions	Southern Factions

Empire of China (1915–1916) National Protection War (1915–1916) Death of Yuan Shikai (1916) Manchu Restoration (1917) Constitutional Protection Movement (1917–1922) Siberian Intervention (1918–1920) Paris Peace Conference (1919) May Fourth Movement (1919) Occupation of Mongolia (1919–1921)	Zhili–Anhui War (1920) Guangdong–Guangxi War (1920–1921) First Zhili–Fengtian War (1922) Second Zhili–Fengtian War (1924) Beijing coup (1924) Yunnan–Guangxi War (1925) May 30 Movement (1925) Anti–Fengtian War (1925–1926) Northern Expedition (1926–1928) Jinan Incident (1928) Huánggūtun Incident (1928) Flag Replacement of the Northeast (1928) Sino-Soviet conflict (1929) Central Plains War (1930)	Beiyang Army: Yuan Shikai Anhui clique Zhili clique Regional: Fengtian clique Shanxi clique Guominjun Ma clique Xinjiang clique	Yunnan clique Old Guangxi clique New Guangxi clique Guangdong clique Kuomintang (KMT) Communist Party of China (CPC) Sichuan clique

China's Ambassadors to the U.S.

the Qing Empire's Ministers to the U.S. 1875-1912	Chen Lanbin 1875-81 Zheng Zaoru 1881-85 Zhang Yinheng 1885-89 Cui Guoyin 1889-1893 Yang Ru 1893-1896 Wu Tingfang 1896-02 Liang Cheng 1902-07 Wu Tingfang 1907-09 Zhang Yintang 1909-1911 Alfred Sao-ke Sze 1911-12

the ROC's Envoys to the U.S. 1912-1935	Zhang Yintang 1912-13 Xia Xiefu 1913-15 V.K. Wellington Koo 1915-20 Alfred Sao-ke Sze 1920-29 Wu Chaoshu 1929-31 Yan Huiqing 1931-33 Alfred Sao-ke Sze 1933-35

the ROC's Ambassadors to the U.S. 1935-1979	Alfred Sao-ke Sze 1935-36 Wang Zhengting 1936-38 Hu Shih 1938-42 Wei Tao-ming 1942-46 V.K. Wellington Koo 1946-56 Dong Xianguang 1956-58 George Yeh 1958-61 Tsiang Tingfu 1961-65 Zhou Shukai 1965-71 Shen Jianhong 1971-79

Chiefs of the PRC Liaison Office in the U.S. 1973-1979	Huang Zhen 1973-77 Chai Zemin 1978-79

the ROC's Representatives to the U.S. 1979-Present	Xia Gongquan 1979-81 Cai Weiping 1981-82 Fredrick Chien 1982-88 Ding Maoshi 1988-94 Lu Zhaozhong 1994-96 Jason Hu 1996-97 Chen Xifan 1997-2000 Cheng Jianren 2000-04 David Lee 2004-07 Joseph Wu 2007-08 Yuan Jiansheng 2008-Pres.

the PRC's Ambassadors to the U.S. 1979-Present	Chai Zemin 1979-82 Zhang Wenjin 1983-85 Han Xu 1985-89 Zhu Qizhen 1989-93 Li Daoyu 1993-98 Li Zhaoxing 1998-01 Yang Jiechi 2001-05 Zhou Wenzhong 2005-2010 Zhang Yesui 2010-Pres.

Persondata
Name	Yan, Huiqing
Alternative names
Short description	President of China
Date of birth	2 April 1877
Place of birth
Date of death	24 May 1950
Place of death

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