Yuan Shikai made a career in public life at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Yuan Shikai as Chinese military and government official (1859–1916).
Yuan Shikai was born at Xiangcheng City in 1859. His recorded nationality is Qing dynasty.
The nineteenth century professionalised nearly everything: salaried posts, formal training, and audiences large enough to sustain a career.
The record gives his occupations as politician, military personnel and military leader.
Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
His recorded fields of work are politics.
His work was formally recognised with the Order of the Paulownia Flowers.
Working from Qing dynasty shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Yuan Shikai died in 1916 at the age of 57. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Worked as politician, military personnel and military leader
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