The General Who Betrayed China's Revolution

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]The general who destroyed China's oldest dynasty was destroyed trying to create his own. It's 1912, Beijing, China.

[00:00:07]After 2,000 years of emperors, the last dynasty falls and a republic rises from the ashes. Yuan Shikai commands the most powerful army in the nation. Republicans trust him to protect their new democracy. He crushes rebellions and stabilizes the country, but absolute power calls to him and a secret plan forms in his mind. He declares himself emperor, betraying every republican who believed in him. The nation erupts in revolt. His own generals abandon him and within months he dies in disgrace. The strongman who ended imperial China was Yuan Shikai.