Gao Zongwu

Gao Zongwu
President of the Republic of China Incumbent
Potential Leader of the North China Political Council
Personal details
Native name	Gao Zongwu
Date of birth	1905
Age at start	56-57 years old
Nationality	Chinese
Role	Leader of China
Political party	Guomindang - Gaopai
Ideology	Civilian Dictatorship

In-Game Description

There exists a point in every man's life where everything thereafter is decided by the single wheel-turn of destiny, whereupon which paths at a crossroads they choose to embark upon would induce a change so irreconcilable that of the multiple possibilities, none are identical. For Gao Zongwu, his turn came in Guangzhou, on one rainy evening as he mulled over Wang Jingwei's Sino-Japanese Treaty. The specificities of the agreement stirred something within him. A dark admixture of emotions ran wild in the reaches of his mind. Loyalty, to mentor and leader; anger, at the humiliation of the Chinese people; the currents of his ideals bore him up and downstream, washing him in colours of various temperaments. A question bubbled in his psyche, rising like the scum of dirty conviction heated to a boiling point: who was he? He coughed. With all the possibilities that lay before him, his chronic tuberculosis rose up to buttress the feeling of being a human being in the world of nations. How simple would it have been to remain a professor, he thought, forever ignorant of current politics. Educated in Kyushu Imperial University, however, it would seem that from the start his fate was tied to rising and ebbing waves of Sino-Japanese relations. Despite his chronic disease, he took up Wang's offer to serve in the diplomatic corps. Gao was very fit for the job: after all, he could speak fluent Japanese: one of the Peers he met would describe his talent with the language as greater than even most Japanese. Flattering praise, but Gao's charm was undeniable. Yet, though he stood often on the periphery that marks the boundary between the two peoples, in his heart Gao loved his country. He admired Sun Yat-sen, and believed that Wang carried the founder's vision in all of its radiating, hopeful brilliance. Though Wang had failed to carry it to the future, Gao is now President, after the downfalls of both Zhou Fohai and Chen Gongbo. He thinks back to that evening in Guangzhou often: how different the world would have been!\n\nNo one can change the past, he realizes. There is nothing to do but to atone for the present.