Tan Yankai

Chinese politician Tan Yankai ([tʰǎn jɛ̌n kʰàɪ]; Chinese: 譚延闓; pinyin: Tán Yánkǎi; Wade–Giles: T'an Yen-k'ai; 25 January 1880 – 22 September 1930) was a Chinese politician of the Republic of China who briefly served as its head of state and premier. Biography Former residence of Tan Yankai in Nanjing, current address is 112 Chengxian Road（成贤街112号）, near the famous Southeast University. Tan Yankai was born on 25 January 1880 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang during the waning decades of the Qing dynasty. He was the son of the Qing minister Tan Zhonglin. A member of Liang Qichao's Constitutionalist Party, he campaigned for a parliament and restrained monarchy. As the party renamed itself the Progressive Party after the Xinhai Revolution, he was a major leader. He left the Progressive Party and joined the Kuomintang and became military governor of Hunan. He remained neutral during Sun Yat-sen's attempt to overthrow President Yuan Shikai in the 1913 Second Revolution, but Yuan removed him anyway. He returned to power after Yuan's death and led his province into resisting the Beiyang Army in the 1917 Constitutional Protection Movement, which effectively saved Sun's