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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