Editing Yuan Shikai (section)

== Further reading ==
* Clubb, O. Edmund. ''20th century China'' (1965) [https://archive.org/details/20thcenturychina00oedm online] pp.&nbsp;40–60.
* Koji, Hirata. "Britain's Men on the Spot in China: John Jordan, Yuan Shikai, and the Reorganization Loan, 1912–1914." ''Modern Asian Studies'' 47.3 (2013): 895–934.
* Lowe, Peter. "Great Britain, Japan and the Fall of Yuan Shih-K'ai, 1915–1916" ''Historical Journal'' 13#4 (1970), pp.&nbsp;706–20 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637712 online]
* {{cite book |last=MacKinnon |first= Stephen R. |year = 1992|title = Power and Politics in Late Imperial China: Yuan Shikai in Beijing and Tianjin, 1901–08 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn = 0520040252 }}
* Palmer. Norman D. "Makers of Modern China: II. The Strong Man: Yuan Shih-kai" ''Current History''   (Sep 1948): 15#85 pp.&nbsp;149–55. in Proquest.
* Paulès, Xavier, ''The Republic of China, 1912-1949'', Cambridge: Polity, 2023, chapter one.
* Putnam Weale, B. L. ''The Fight For The Republic In China'' (1917) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4522 online]
* Rankin, Mary Backus. "State and society in early republican politics, 1912–18." ''China Quarterly'' 150 (1997): 260–81. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/655337 online]
* Yim, Kwanha. "Yüan Shih-k'ai and the Japanese." ''Journal of Asian Studies'' 24.1 (1964): 63–73 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2050414 online].
* {{cite book |last = Young |first = Ernest P. |year = 1977 |title = The Presidency of Yuan Shih-K'ai: Liberalism and Dictatorship in Early Republican China |publisher = University of Michigan Press |location = Ann Arbor |isbn = 0472089951 }}
* Zhang, Hong. "Yuan Shikai and the Significance of his Troop Training at Xiaozhan, Tianjin, 1895–1899." ''Chinese Historical Review'' 26.1 (2019): 37–54.