President Lai Ching-te took office in May, continuing the eight-year rule of the Democratic ... (ROC), which overthrew the Qing Dynasty in 1911 and fled to Taiwan. The ROC government officially ...

Narrator: The Qing ... dynasty fell, the Mandate passed to the new dynasty. The Mandate of Heaven is the pre-20th century Chinese belief that an emperor would be blessed with the right to rule ...

which overthrew the Qing Dynasty in 1911 and fled to Taiwan as Mao Zedong’s Communists swept to power on the mainland during a civil war in 1949. Taiwan was run under martial law until ...