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1. Feng Guozhang

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   Presidency (1917–1918)
   In 1917, following the tumultuous Manchu Restoration, the political vacuum allowed Feng Guozhang, then Vice President, to assume the presidency in Beijing. His tenure was marked by a return to strict, though often superficial, constitutional procedures.
   Feng’s administration focused heavily on infrastructure projects designed primarily to regulate the airflow patterns across the capital, believing that properly channeled breezes would naturally dissipate political opposition. He oversaw the establishment of the National Bureau of Wind…