Talk:List of presidents of the Republic of China

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numbering
numbering is wrong this page too Blueshirts (talk) 06:23, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Source for numbering
Could someone point me to a source for the numbering of the presidents of the ROC? In particular, is there any reason why Chiang is not counted? Also it seems that the count begins at the 1947 Constitution. Is it the generally accepted way to count the presidents of the ROC? Although a new constitution was adopted, the governement was still the same so I don't think it makes sense to "reset" the count (i.e. a "Second Republic of China" was not founded, unlike France for instance where each new republic officially replaced the previous one). Laurent (talk) 21:40, 17 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Chiang was the first constitutional president. The First president of the 3rd and final stage of transition into Democracy of the Republic of China.  Sun on the other hand was only the president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, therefore he was never 'really' the president because the government and constitution was not yet drafted at his time (constitution was not drafted until 1946 and implemented in 1947, first presidential election/inauguration was on the 20th of May 1948), therefore, legally speaking, Chiang is the first president of the Republic of China.
 * As for how they are numbered, it's done by elected terms (acting presidents don't count eg. Li, Yen, and first term of Lee). For example, Ma is labeled as the 12th president, or more specifically speaking, the 12th term president of the ROC.  I've never seen anyone numbering the presidents by the person.  I've only seen it happening on the English Wiki.  On the Chinese Wiki, RoC website, and even whilst speaking Chinese itself, it's all done by terms.  We don't say 'Chiang is the first President of the Republic of China', we say 'Chiang is the first term President of the Republic of China' (蔣中正是中華民國第一任總統).  Numbering by the president doesn't happen in Chinese.  We dun say that Ma's the 6th president, but the 12th term president.  It just doesn't happen.  The numbering by the president is only done by Westerners.
 * If you're talking about how the presidents are not 'numbered' is simply because the constitution hasn't been drafted yet. For the Nationalist government section, if you take a look at the dates, it's from 1928 to 1948.  This time period is the RoC's second stage of evolution, Political Tutelage.  The stage where the Republic is going under 're-education' and becoming 'ready' to go into the last and final stage (constitutional democracy).  This is basically the only time where the RoC is 'technically' an one-party state, because the 3-stage theory itself has the KMT leading the political tutelage of the RoC.  And I lied, there was a constitution.  After the end of the 1st stage (Military Government AKA Dictatorship), the Provisional Constitution was discarded and replaced with the 'Provisional Constitution of the Political Tutelage Period'.  I've never really read that constitution before, so I can't be sure what its terms are and how the Nationalist government 'officially' worked at the time.  What I CAN tell you however is that the government was set up as a Lennist one-party state where the President is the leader of the party, so I guess if you wanna compare, you can compare it to the USSR.  HOWEVER, the second-stage was not 100 years like the USSR was, it was only 20 years, therefore there was little change in leadership during those 20 years.  Chiang began as the first president for like 3 years, but lost support from the party because of his arrest on Hu and was replaced by Lin.  Lin ruled for something like 9 years, then he died and the Central Committee elected Chiang to succeed Lin.  The government operated in a parliamentary fashion, if the parliament doesn't like their Prime Minister, they replace him with someone else.  If someone dies, they just vote another one in.  So in this case, there really weren't any 'terms', you were either the President or you were not...  Plus the fact that the government at the time was in something like a 'transitional stage', a stage that's not meant to last (which it did not), there really isn't anything to number or worth numbering.
 * So, in the end, if you are gonna number something, you can only number what has happened AFTER the system's been in place, which is the third and final stage of the ROC evolution, which begins with the implementation of the Constitution in 1947 and the inauguration of the first Constitutional President in 1948. Liu Tao (talk) 02:51, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarifications. Perhaps we should put the numbering by term more prominently in the article since it seems to be the official way to count. Laurent (talk) 15:23, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Common Name Section
Alright, what what wrong did I do now? All I did was rewriting parts of the section by combining 2 sentences into 1 without using the term 'limiting'. No information was deleted, if you actually read the entire sentence. In fact, I 'added' information with my links. As for the Taiwan link, if you also reread my edits, it is in the sentence, just at a later place. If you're complaining about removing the 'now' part, it's because it's redundant. The verb 'is' is present tense, it describes something that is happen at the moment, thus the term 'now' itself is part of the the 'is' definition. My sentence basically rewrites the 2 sentences as well as adding in information concerning to what had happened to the Mainland and defining the dates more precisely. Plus, the sentence flows much better and less awkward as well as being much more straightforward. Less ramble, more info. Liu Tao (talk) 00:29, 21 February 2010 (UTC)


 * The problem is the set of edits appear to have done in the interest of POV pushing through an attempt to deliberately hide information. The first edit took the "move" in the "1940s" (prior to 1940, ROC had mainland China but not Taiwan - after 1940s ROC had Taiwan but not mainland China; thus it was a "move") out of the sentence and replaced it with a half the story, that the ROC became "limited to" Taiwan.  While technically true, it is also technically true that the last time someone I know "moved" houses there was a short period of time in which he owned both houses.  But I don't ever say his living space became "limited to" the second house without mentioning that it is a new house or that he lost the old house.  We say he "moved" which nicely sums up both the loss of the old house and the gain of the new house.  Neither of the edits you made is incorrect in the facts, but how are the better or more informative than the original wording? Readin (talk) 02:04, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I didn't push any POV nor did I hide any information. Previously your version did not state that Taiwan was under ROC jurisdiction. You just said Taiwan made up the majority of the ROC jurisdiction since the 1940's and that the Mainland was under the ROC possession before the 1940's.  I wrote that that the mainland was lost in 1949 (which means that the mainland was under ROC jurisdiction before 1949, which is more accurate than your 1940's) and that Taiwan made up the majority of the ROC territory since 1949 (Which is more accurate than your 1950's).  My version also links to the Chinese Civil War.  Not only is my version more accurate in terms of down to the year (yours were to the decade), my version also provided an explanation of the territorial change.  Not only that, I was able to rewrite it into one single sentence with a nice flow to it.  If there's any information missing, it would be in your version.  You have a ten year gap in your version.  You stated that Taiwan made up the majority of the ROC administration in 1950's and that the ROC was composed of Mainland before the 1940's, but you made no mention of what was in between these 10 years.  My version leaves no gaps.  It clearly states mainland was under ROC possession until 1949 and since then Taiwan has made of the majority of ROC possession.  I did not mention when Taiwan was under RoC possession, yes, that is true, but neither had you.  I just rewrote your statement in a clearer and concise way as well as adding a bit more.  Everything that was in your version was included in my sentence.  I did not push any POV, I just explained why the ROC is commonly known as 'Taiwan', nothing more.
 * Now, if you want to somehow include when Taiwan came under RoC jurisdiction, go ahead. You just have to somehow mention it in your explanation of why the ROC is commonly called 'Taiwan'.  You can't just stick it in either, because then it would be considered irrelevant to the subject at hand AND considered pushing for a POV.  If you want to include it, you'll have to somehow tie it into the explanation of why the ROC is commonly called 'Taiwan'.  I dunno how to do it though, as I see no link between why the RoC is commonly known as 'Taiwan' and that Taiwan came under ROC jurisdiction since 1945.  Liu Tao (talk) 02:54, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I do, however, have an alternate method, and it is to remove the mention of the mainland altogether. You can just leave it off as:


 * The Republic of China is commonly known as 'Taiwan' due to the Taiwan Island making up almost all of its territory.


 * A bit bland, but it'd work as well. Liu Tao (talk) 02:58, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok for now. I will try to get back to this but I don't have as much time for Wikipedia as I used to. Readin (talk) 03:47, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

On Wang Jingwei
Well, he didn't assume the title legitimately, but I think we should add him, but on a way we indicate illegitimacy, for instance putting his name and info on italics, and stating he became "president" on the "Nanjing regime". Faunas (talk) 16:23, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh, and I forgot Chen Gongbo. Faunas (talk) 16:30, 26 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Seriously? Why would the puppet state be included in this list? They did not even recognize each other!--Lmmnhn (talk) 00:20, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

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