{"aliases":[],"awards":[],"biography_summary":"Gao Lingwei (; Hepburn: K\u014d Ry\u014di); (1870\u20131940) was a Chinese politician during the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China. A Tianjin native, he was appointed to Hubei where he held many offices relating to finance and education including a stint as superintendent of the provincial military academy. There he became a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Zhang Zhidong in China's modernization effort and was appointed governor of Hunan. After the Xinhai Revolution, he returned to Tianjin and subsequently became a minister in many Warlord era cabinets. In 1923, he became the Acting President while Cao Kun \"campaigned\" for the presidency by bribing the National Assembly. Finally, he served briefly as Cao's first premier.","birth_date":"1870-09-12","birth_place":"Tianjin","birth_place_coordinates":{"latitude":39.146667,"longitude":117.205556},"birth_place_wikidata_id":"Q11736","birth_place_wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11736","canonical_name":"Gao Lingwei","canonical_url":"https://zh-cn.instaget.online/people/d1e093f854d5c7e4c99589ae","citizenships":["Republic of China"],"death_date":"1940-03-04","description":"Chinese politician (1870-1940)","external_ids":{"isni":{"id":"0000000063790127","url":"https://isni.org/isni/0000000063790127"},"loc":{"id":"n88298789","url":"https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88298789.html"},"viaf":{"id":"55722548","url":"https://viaf.org/viaf/55722548/"}},"full_name":"Gao Lingwei","height_cm":null,"names":{"aliases":["Canggui","Zeshe"],"birth":[],"native":[],"official":[]},"native_name":null,"notable_works":[],"occupations":["politician"],"official_websites":[],"photo":{"author":"Unknown; scanned by Internet Archive (https://archive.org/)","license":"Public domain","license_url":null,"source":"Wikimedia Commons","source_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E9%AB%98%E5%87%8C%E9%9C%A8.jpg","url":"https://instaget-public-commons.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/public/commons/53a844c426de1074bca33367179c0a596948e9af47953b230f1fc7cdb3d3bb19"},"profile_url":"https://zh-cn.instaget.online/people/d1e093f854d5c7e4c99589ae","provenance":{"catalog":"wikidata_wikipedia","fetched_at":"2026-08-29T06:16:42Z","social_archives_included":false,"source_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q701418"},"public_hash":"d1e093f854d5c7e4c99589ae","schema_version":"1.1","socials":{},"tags":[{"key":"category:politics-and-public-service","label":"Politics and public service","type":"category"},{"key":"occupation:politician","label":"politician","type":"occupation"},{"key":"country:tianjin","label":"Tianjin","type":"country"},{"key":"citizenship:republic of china","label":"Republic of China","type":"citizenship"}],"wikidata_id":"Q701418","wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q701418","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Lingwei"}