Yunnan Province, Republic of China
| Yunnan Province 雲南省 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Province of the Republic of China (1912–1951) | |||||||||
| 1912–1951 | |||||||||
 Yunnan Province (red) in the de jure territory of the Republic of China | |||||||||
| Capital | Kunming (1912–1949, de jure) Bangkok, Thailand (in exile) (1950–1951) | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1947 | 420,465 km2 (162,342 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1947 | 9,066,000 | ||||||||
| Historical era | 20th century | ||||||||
• Established | 1912 | ||||||||
• Defection of the Provincial Government | 9 December 1949 | ||||||||
• PRC establishes full control of Yunnan | 1951 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  China Myanmar | ||||||||
Yunnan is a de jure province in the
ROC government formally claims to be the legitimate government of the whole 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 was slightly larger than the present-day Yunnan
.
As the ROC does not recognize changes in administrative divisions made by the PRC, including this province, official maps of the ROC government shows Yunnan in its pre-1949 boundaries.
Administration
The province inherited the borders of the Qing-Dynasty province, bordering
Wa states
). The province had an area of 420,465 km2.
History
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.
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.[1]
In
Nobel laureates in physics studied at Lianda.[citation needed
]
After the end of the
retreated to Taiwan
.
Demographics
| Year | Households | Population | Male | Female | Average people per household | Gender ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 1,904,000 | 9,468,000 | 4,976,000 | 4,492,000 | 4.97 | 110.70 |
| 1928 | None | 13,821,000 | None | None | None | None |
| 1936 to 1937 | 2,390,000 | 12,042,000 | 6,226,000 | 5,816,000 | 5.04 | 107.04 |
| 1947 | 1,715,000 | 9,066,000 | 4,552,000 | 4,513,000 | 5.27 | 100.82 |
List of governors
Kuomintang (Nationalist)
Chairperson of the Provincial Government
| № | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
Long Yun 龍雲 Lóng Yún (1884–1962) |
17 January 1928 | 2 October 1945 | Kuomintang Yunnan clique |
| Of Yi descent. Removed from office. | |||||
| — | 
|
Li Zonghuang 李宗黄 Lǐ Zōnghuáng (1888–1978) |
2 October 1945 | 1 December 1945 | Kuomintang |
| 2 | 
|
Lu Han 盧漢 Lú Hàn (1896–1974) |
1 December 1945 | 9 December 1949 | Kuomintang |
| Of Yi descent. Defected to the Communists. | |||||
| 3 | 
|
Li Mi 李彌 Lǐ Mí (1902–1973) |
21 December 1945[4] | 1954 | Kuomintang |
| Post abolished. | |||||
References
- ^ 中共雲南地方組織創始人李鑫：被捕後寧死不屈，雲南日報2011年6月10日。
- ^ 《抗戰勝利後的「驅龍」事件》,《文史春秋》2013年03期.
- ^ 民国人口：研究史の整理と展望
- ^ 總統府第五局, ed. (31 December 1949). "《總統府公報》第貳肆伍號".
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