Yunnan Province, Republic of China
| Yunnan Province 雲南省 |
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 Province of the Republic of China (1912–1951) |
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| Capital |
Kunming (1912-1949) Bangkok, Thailand (in exile) (1950-1951) |
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| Historical era | 20th Century | ||||
| • | Established | 1912 | |||
| • | Defection of the Provincial Government | 9 December 1949 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 1951 | |||
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| • | 1947 | 420,465 km2(162,342 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1947 | 9,066,000 | |||
| Density | 21.6 /km2 (55.8 /sq mi) | ||||
| Today part of |
 China Myanmar Sagaing Region, Kachin State
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Yunnan (Chinese: 雲南省; pinyin: Yúnnán shěng) refers to a former province of the Republic of China. It was one of the 22 provinces set up during the Qing Dynasty. As one of the 6 provinces in South China, the territory it administers is slightly larger than the present-day Yunnan Province.
The province inherited the borders of the Qing-Dynasty province, bordering Sikang, Szechwan, Kweichow, Kwanghsi, and the countries Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and India. The claimed boundaries of the province included all of today's Yunnan and parts of Panzhihua, Sichuan and Myanmar. The province had an area of 420,465 km2.
Following the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, Yunnan came under the control of local warlords, who had more than the usual degree of autonomy due to Yunnan's remoteness. They financed their regime through opium harvesting and traffic.
Cai E is regarded as the founder of the Yunnan clique when at the request of Liang Qichao in 1915, he declared Yunnan's opposition to Yuan Shikai's monarchy. Cai died from natural causes shortly after the successful National Protection War. His chief lieutenant, Tang Jiyao, took over Yunnan and demanded that the National Assembly be restored. When this was accomplished, Yunnan officially reunified with the national government but kept its provincial army separate due to the Beiyang Army's grip in Beijing politics. In 1927, Long Yun seized control of the clique; Tang died shortly after. Long then re-aligned Yunnan under the Nationalist government in Nanjing but stringently guarded the province's autonomy.
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