Gao Lingwei (acting) Sun Baoqi Ku Wei-chün Huang Fu (acting)
Preceded by
Gao Lingwei (acting)
Succeeded by
Huang Fu (acting)
Personal details
Born
(1862-12-12)12 December 1862 Tientsin, Empire of China
Died
15 May 1938(1938-05-15) (aged 75) Tientsin, Republic of China
Political party
Zhili clique
Awards
Order of Rank and Merit Order of the Precious Brilliant Golden Grain Order of Wen-Hu
Military service
Allegiance
Qing dynasty Republic of China Empire of China Zhili clique
Rank
General
Battles/wars
First Sino-Japanese War Beijing Coup National Protection War Zhili–Anhui War First Zhili–Fengtian War
General Cao Kun (simplified Chinese: 曹锟; traditional Chinese: 曹錕; pinyin: Cáo Kūn; Wade–Giles: Ts'ao K'un; courtesy name: Zhongshan (仲珊)) (December 12, 1862 – May 15, 1938) was a Chinese warlord and politician, who served as the President of the Republic of China from 1923 to 1924, as well as the military leader of the Zhili clique in the Beiyang Army; he also served as a trustee of the Catholic University of Peking.
died not long after, but in mid-1920 the new head of the Zhili clique, CaoKun, led his forces to defeat Duan in the Zhili–Anhui War, in an alliance with...
Constitutional Protection War. After Feng's natural death, leadership passed to CaoKun. Cao was victorious in the Zhili–Anhui War (1920) though the credit belongs...
Feng's ally, CaoKun, the vice presidency but the Communications Clique and the Research Clique opposed it after newspapers reported that Cao lavished enormous...
the October 1924 coup d'état by Feng Yuxiang against Chinese President CaoKun, leader of the Zhili warlord faction. Feng called it the Capital Revolution...
in Beijing for the third term of the President of China. Zhili warlord CaoKun won the election through bribery. The capital was under control of the...
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leadership of the Zhili Clique was secured by CaoKun with the support of Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang. Cao and Wu began to agitate against Duan and the...
greatest diplomatic triumph, the return of Shandong. After the fall of CaoKun in the 1924 Beijing Coup, he joined the Zhili clique and became acting...
Opera, commonly known as "CaoKun" and "Jin Kun," is a Kunqu opera spread in the Jinhua area of Zhejiang. It is called "CaoKun" because of its simplification...
CaoCao and Lady Bian had four sons: Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, Cao Zhi and Cao Xiong. Cao Xiong was succeeded by his son Cao Bing. Cao Bing had no heir. Cao...
evidenced in various Chinese novels at the time. In 1921, the Chinese warlord CaoKun created a branch in his army that specialized in wielding two-handed single...
around 1922. During his time as de facto ruler of the Beiyang Government, CaoKun used Yanqing House as his workplace while living in nearby Huairen Hall...
Acting President while CaoKun "campaigned" for the presidency by bribing the National Assembly. Finally, he served briefly as Cao's first premier. Gao Lingwei...
Lacking any military power of his own, he had to play Duan, Zhili leader CaoKun, and Fengtian leader Zhang Zuolin against each other to stay in power....
the Zhili clique, founded by Feng Guozhang but led after Feng's death by CaoKun and Wu Peifu, were the principal Beiyang cliques. Disunited, the power...
As part of this, he tried to recruit such figures as former warlords CaoKun and Wu Peifu to head the collaborationist regime the Japanese established...
again as president of China between 11 June 1922 and 13 June 1923 after CaoKun forced out President Xu Shichang. Li was chosen because he was respected...
all over the city. They were allegedly started by disobedient troops of CaoKun, a loyal officer of Yuan. Disorder among military ranks spread to Tongzhou...
leading warlord of Beijing. He did this by supporting another warlord, CaoKun, with troops and they successfully ousted Duan. As a reward, Zhang was...
Pressed by the Zhili clique and the Anhui clique, Feng Guozhang ordered CaoKun to make war again on Hunan province in January and defeated the Constitutional...
reinstate Li Yuanhong, and use the abolition of the government to disarm CaoKun and the warlords of the provinces. If the failure was also the victim of...
Beijing-Han Airlines March 29, 1922 March 31, 1922 China Founded by warlord CaoKun with a single Handley Page aircraft, likely a modified HP O/400; fatally...
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Republic of China
Empire of China