The Democratic Party () was a short-lived political party in the early of the Republican period of China from 1912 to 1913.

History

It was formed by several groups of politicians of the late Qing Constitutional Movement on 27 September 1912 in Beijing after seeing the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and

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emerged in the Provisional Senate of the Provisional Republican Government. Tang Hualong became the first Chairman of the party while

Liang Qichao Liang Qichao (Chinese: 梁啓超 ; Wade-Giles: ''Liang2 Chʻi3-chʻao1''; Yale: ''Lèuhng Kái-chīu'') (February 23, 1873 – January 19, 1929) was a Chinese politician, social and political activist, journalist, and intellectual. His thou ...

was the actual head. The radical faction split from the party after the party stood with the government's stance on the Russo-Mongolian Agreement on 3 November 1912. Under Liang Qichao, the Democratic Party, Unity Party, and Republican Party merged into the

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on 29 May 1913. The Progressive Party became the flagship pro-Yuan party in the National Assembly.

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History

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