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TIL After Imperial China was overthrown in 1911, the Qing court sent an envoy, Tang Shaoyi, to negotiate peace with the Republic of China. Tang visited Sun Yat-sen in the Presidential Palace and was so moved that he switched sides and became the first Premier of the National Republic

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