Liu Guanxiong
Liu Guanxiong( 1861, Fuzhou, Fujian – 1927, Tianjin) was a Chinese Admiral from the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China who was Navy Minister of China, from 1912 – 1916 and 1917- 1919.
When he was young he entered the Navy College of Fuzhou and was sent abroad to Britain.
He was named Minister of the Navy and Commander- in- Chief upon the founding of the Republic of China.
He was also Minister of Education( 1913) and Transportation Minister( 1912).
During Yuan Shikai's rule as Emperor in 1915 he was named a Duke.
Liu turned to Duan Qirui soon after Yuan's death, but the Chinese fleet became fractured and split due to Duan's refusal to validate the abolished Constitution.
Cheng Biguang
Cheng Biguang( 程璧光)( 1861－26 February 1918) was a Chinese Admiral from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
He served in the Beiyang Fleet and the Republic of China Navy.
When Duan Qirui refused to validate the Constitution Cheng and fellow Admiral Lin Baoyi sailed their fleets down south to join with the' Constitutional government' of Sun Yat-sen.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Duan Zhigui
Duan Zhigui
( 1869 – March 1925) was a Chinese general.
Born in Hefei, Anhui, he attained the post of Heilongjiang governor in the late Qing dynasty and between 1912- 13 was governor of Chahar and the military governor of Hubei between 1914 – 15, as well as military and civil governor of Fengtian in 1915- 16.
A staunch supporter of Yuan Shikai, he was nicknamed the" Adopted Prince", and when Duan Qirui, a fellow Hefei native, took the Beijing government in 1917, Duan was made a Minister of War; however, with Duan Qirui's defeat by 1920, Duan Zhigui fled to the Japanese embassy.
He was remitted in 1922 and lived in Tianjin until his death there in 1925.
Philippe Cadorette
Philippe Cadorette( born April 7, 1995) is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender.
He is currently playing for the Norfolk Admirals of the ECHL.
Cadorette played major junior hockey with the Baie- Comeau Drakkar of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League( QMJHL).
Cadorette, who has played in the QMJHL since the 2011 – 12 season, was rewarded for his outstanding play when he was named to the 2013 – 14 QMJHL First All- Star Team.
After his junior career in the QMJHL in the 2014 – 15 season, Cadorette initially signed an amateur try- out contract with the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL on April 25, 2015, however only trained with the club.
On August 6, 2015, Cadorette signed his first professional contract in agreeing to a one- year contract with the Norfolk Admirals of the ECHL, a secondary affiliate of the Edmonton Oilers.
Duan Qirui
Duan Qirui( 6 March 1865 – 2 November 1936) was a Chinese warlord and politician, a commander of the Beiyang Army and the acting Chief Executive of the Republic of China( in Beijing) from 1924 to 1926.
He was also the Premier of the Republic of China on four occasions between 1913 and 1918.
He was arguably the most powerful man in China from 1916 to 1920.
Jia Deyao
Jia Deyao( 1880–1940) was a Chinese military commander and politician, member of the Anhui clique during the Beiyang Government.
After graduating the Baoding Military Academy and the Imperial Japanese Army Academy with a government scholarship, he returned to China and joined the army as a minor commander.
He became a brigadier general, head of the Board of Military Academy of the Department of Army in 1916, and a commander at Xia Nan.
In 1918, he became a lieutenant general and principal of the Baoding Military Academy.
In November 1925, he became assistant secretary of the Department of Army, and soon was promoted to Secretary of Army and commander of the national guard.
On February 15, 1926, he was temporarily appointed to Premier of the Republic of China after his predecessor, Xu Shiying, resigned.
On March 4 of the same year, the government underwent reorganization and he was officially given the position.
Two days after the March 18 Massacre's weakening of warlord control over China, Deyao tried to resign, but his request was not accepted.
On April 20, following a successful resignation, he left Beijing with former president Duan Qirui.
The two exiled themselves in Tianjin, Deyao withdrawing himself completely from public life.
He died in 1940 of natural causes.
Lu Yongxiang (warlord)
Lu Yongxiang,( October 22, 1867 – May 15, 1933), Anhui clique warlord, military governor of Zhejiang, Zhili, and Jiangsu.
Lu Yongxiang was born October 22, 1867, in Jiyang, Shandong, China.
Impoverished as a child, he joined the Huai Army in 1890.
In 1895 he joined the new Beiyang Army, rising to brigade commander.
At the time of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution Lu was given command of the Beiyang 3rd Division.
After the Republic of China was established, Lu was appointed commander of the Beiyang Tenth Division, guarding Zhejiang.
For joining Duan Qirui, as part of the Anhui clique Lu was made military governor of Zhejiang from August 14, 1919 to September 7, 1924.
Near the end of his term as Zhejiang governor he fell out with his counterpart, Jiangsu governor Qi Xieyuan, over control of Shanghai and their conflict became the First Jiangsu- Zhejiang War.
Lu was defeated by Qi and his Zhili clique allies, most importantly Sun Chuanfang, when Sun attacked from the south.
His control over Zhejiang collapsed when the local civil administration under Xia Chao defected to the Zhili clique.
On October 13, 1924, Lu retired and sought asylum in Japan.
After the Beijing coup on November 11, Duan Qirui appointed Lu as military governor of Zhili Province.
After a month he was replaced, but he was made military governor of Jiangsu on January 16, 1925, after a joint Anhui- Fengtian expedition under Zhang Zongchang briefly retook Jiangsu and Shanghai in January.
He left office on August 5, 1925, replaced by Yang Yuting as Zhang Zuolin's army entered the province.
When Sun Chuanfang invaded the province and drove Zhang Zongchang out, Lu fled to Tianjin, where he lived in seclusion until he died in 1933.
Wu Guangxin
Wu Guangxin,( 1881–1939)
Army general of the Republic of China.
Military and Civil governor of Hunan in 1920.
Army Minister 1924 – 1925.
Wu Guangxin was born in 1881 in Hefei, Anhui, China.
He graduated from the Japanese Army Military Academy in 1904 and the War College in 1910.
A career officer in the Beiyang Army, he had close professional ties to his brother- in- law Duan Qirui.
After the Republic of China was established, he held command of the 20th Division.
In 1916 he was given the task of re-establishing northern military control over Yuezhou in northern Hunan.
In August 1917 Duan obtained Feng Guozhang's appointment of Wu as Commander- in- Chief of the Upper Yangtze River and concurrently Inspector of Sichuan, with orders to advance into Sichuan to resolve its internal conflicts.
In January 1918, during the 1st Constitutional Protection War, Wu-- who had retreated from Sichuan to the Sichuan- Hubei border -- attacked Shi Xingchuan and Li Tiancai's army from the west along the Yangtze.
Caught between Wu and Wang Zhanyuan in the Wuhan area, Shi and Li were defeated.
Hubei independent forces ceased to be a serious threat to Beiyang power in Hubei.
In 1920 Wu became Military and Civil governor of Hunan.
During the Zhili – Anhui War he was captured and detained as one of the Anhui clique's leaders by Wang Zhanyuan, but in 1921 he was released.
Due to the victory of Zhang Zuolin and Feng Yuxiang in the Second Zhili – Fengtian War, Zhang Zuolin named Duan Qirui as the new Chief Executive of the nation on November 24, 1924.
Wu was appointed as Army Minister and in December 1924 inspector general.
In February 1925 he was appointed Reconstruction Conference Association president.
Due to the March 18 Massacre, Feng Yuxiang again revolted against the Fengtian clique and deposed Duan, who was forced to flee to Zhang's protection, and Wu-- now deposed -- went into seclusion in Shanghai.
He died of illness on November 15, 1939, in Shanghai.
Xu Shuzheng
Hsu Seu- Cheng or Xu Shuzheng( 11 November 1880 – 29 December 1925) was a Chinese warlord in Republican China.
A subordinate and right- hand man of Duan Qirui, he was a prominent member of the Anhui clique.

Question: Were Philippe Cadorette and Duan Qirui of the same nationality?
Answer: no