Cao Rulin
Chinese politician (1877–1966)
title: "Cao Rulin" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["republic-of-china-politicians-from-shanghai", "1966-deaths", "1877-births", "progressive-party-(china)-politicians", "place-of-birth-missing", "date-of-death-missing", "place-of-death-missing", "taiwanese-people-from-shanghai", "refugees-of-the-chinese-civil-war", "politicians-from-detroit", "chinese-emigrants-to-the-united-states", "chinese-people-of-world-war-i"] description: "Chinese politician (1877–1966)" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Rulin" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Chinese politician (1877–1966) ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Cao_Rulin.jpg" caption="National Assembly]]'s senate in 1913. He represented [[Outer Mongolia]] because Mongolia boycotted the elections after declaring independence during the [[Xinhai Revolution]]. In 1915, he took [[Yuan Shikai]]'s orders and signed the infamous "[[Twenty-One Demands]]" treaty with Japan. He later became the leader of the [[New Communications Clique]]."] ::
Cao Rulin was part of the Chinese envoy attending the Paris Peace Conference. At the conference many former German concessions in China were handed to Japan instead of back to China. This caused a great deal of unrest in China resulting in a student demonstration on May 4, 1919 outside Tiananmen. This was the beginning of the May Fourth Movement.
The demonstration shifted and Cao Rulin's house, at 3 Front Zhaojialou Lane in the East City District, was burned down. Cao was helped to escape by his friend, Nakae Ushikichi, son of Nakae Chōmin.
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