Taipingmen (太平门), Nanjing (南京市), 1 September 1913

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OH03-047

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University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: OH03-047. This photograph of the Taiping Gate (pinyin: Taipingmen; Chinese: 太平门) was taken during Yuan Shi-kai's suppression of the 'Second Revolution (pinyin: Er ci geming; Chinese: 二次革命)', which broke out in July 1913. The Second Revolution was instigated by the Guomindang party, who had won China’s first nationwide democratic elections in 1913. Members organised a rebellion against Yuan Shi-kai after he had ordered the assassination of Song Jiaren, the party's prime-minister designate, in March. The violence lasted from July until early September 1913. The Qing loyalist General Zhang Qun (Ch: 张勋; other: Chang Hsün), who threw in his lot with Yuan, finally took Nanjing back from the GMD rebels. Scratched into the coating on the glass negative: T'AIPINGMÊN / NANKING / 1-9-13. For more images of Taipingmen, see OH03-041, OH03-048, OH03-049, OH03-051, OH03-053 and Pe01-013.