Cen Chunxuan

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Cen Chunxuan (b. 1861, Xilin, Guangxi, China - d. April 27, 1933, Shanghai, China), was governor-general of Sichuan (1902-1903, 1907-1908), Liangguang (1903-1906), and Yungui (1906-1907) and chairman of the Governing Committee of the Military Government of China (1918-1920). He was under the protection of Gen. Lu Rongting after the revolution of 1916; he founded the Military Bureau in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, together with Liang Qichao, who opposed Pres. Yuan Shikai. In 1917, he took part in the Constitutional Movement launched by Sun Yat-sen against Premier Duan Qirui. In 1918 he became one of seven members, and then the chairman, of the Governing Committee of the southern government. He helped to push Sun Yat-sen out of the government, but he himself was expelled by the Guangdong army in 1920 and then left politics.