Post Xinhai Revolution
In 1912, Yu Youren is nominated to and accepts the post of Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communication, but less than three months later is forced to resign along with Dr. Sun Yatsen's government. After Yuan Shikai took control of the government and the Min Li Bao is shut down, Yu was placed on the wanted list by Yuan Shikai's government. In 1918, Yu returns to his native Shaanxi Province, where he becomes commander of forces responsible for revolutionary activities in the northwest. In 1922, his post as commander is disbanded and he returns to Shanhai where he established Shanghai University along with Ye Chucang and assumes the post as president of the school. In 1925, he is ordered to organize along with Wu Zhihui, Wang Jingwei, and others the political affairs committee to handle party affairs. In 1927, Yu becomes a standing member of the Nationalist government committee. In the following year, he is also appointed as the Director of Audit. In 1932, Yu assumed the post of Director of the Control Yuan.
In 1936, Yu collects examples of Chinese characters and compiles them into the "Thousand character essay in Standard Cursive Script" as the book Standard Cursive Script, the first edition of which is published. Yu also donated his entire collection of more than three hundred rubbings from Stele to the Xi'an Forest of Stele Museum.
In 1941, along with other members of the art and cultural world, Yu takes the initiative to name the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year as Poets' Day. Yu also meets the modern painting master Zhang Daqian at Dunhuang in Northwest China and comes to realize the amount of destruction that has occurred to the art and cultural heritage at Dunhuang. After returning to the government headquarters in Chongqing, he immediately proposes that a Dunhuang Art Academy be established.
Following the loss of Mainland China to Communist forces, Yu follows the Chinese Nationalist government to Taiwan in 1949 at the age of 71.
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