This Chinese leader emerged as the strongest following the fall of the Qing dynasty. Chiang Kai-shek Sun Yat-sen Kim Jong Mao Zedong

This Chinese leader emerged as the strongest following the fall of the Qing dynasty was Sun Yat-sen. He became the first president after the Wuchang Uprising succeded bloodlessly in 1911. During his reign, the capital of the new government was in Nanjing.