Yuan Shikai and Modern Celebrities

Author: Zhang Huateng
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This work demonstrates that Yuan Shikai was not without options, but blinded by profit, he ultimately fell into the of being abandoned by friends and relatives and condemned by history. This was not an accident. His highly skilled manipulation of political tactics and repeated major political gambles clearly showed that he was an unscrupulous senior politician. In the end, he not only failed to become a hero of the era but was not even considered a rogue or a cunning villain. Instead, he only became a petty clown in the political arena, wearing the mask of a leader but lacking substance.