<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Shikai" id="mwTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Yuan Shikai">Yuan Shikai</a> declares the establishment of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_China_(1915–1916)" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Empire of China (1915–1916)">Empire of China</a> and proclaims himself <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_China" id="mwTw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Emperor of China">Emperor</a>.<sup about="#mwt48" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_12#cite_note-8" id="mwUA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUQ">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><a class="mw-redirect" href="./Jonathan_Spence" id="mwBgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jonathan Spence">Spence, Jonathan D.</a> (1999) <i id="mwBgE"><a href="./The_Search_for_Modern_China" id="mwBgI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Search for Modern China">The Search for Modern China</a></i>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="./W.W._Norton_and_Company" id="mwBgM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="W.W. Norton and Company">W.W. Norton and Company</a>. p.<span id="mwBgQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>274. <a about="#mwt45" class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBgY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span about="#mwt45" id="mwBgc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a about="#mwt45" href="./Special:BookSources/0-393-97351-4" id="mwBgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-97351-4">0-393-97351-4</a>.</span>