Empire Chinois – 1837

From Dictionnaire universel Geographie moderne, description physique, politique et historique de tous les lieux de la terre“ by A. M. Perrot and M. Alex. Aragon. Paris. 1837.

The Empire of China was a short-lived attempt by statesman and general Yuan Shikai from late 1915 to early 1916 to reinstate monarchy in China, with himself as the Hongxian Emperor. The attempt was ultimately a failure; it set back the Chinese republican cause by many years and fractured China into a period of conflict between various local warlords.