Yuan Shikai Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Yuan Shikai? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Yuan Shikai from Historical Figures 1900s and what is the personality traits.
ESTJ (3w2)
Yuan Shikai personality type is ESTP, in my opinion. With that in mind, it’s not surprising that he was a similar character to the young, impulsive Empress Dowager Cixi. She is also called the “Empress Mother”.
Here is an anecdote about Yuan Shikai. When the Sino-Japanese War was approaching its climax, Yuan proposed that his favorite daughter marry the Japanese Emperor. Not long afterward, he would be overthrown by the revolutionaries and spend the next 15 years in prison. However, I don’t think this was an act of rebellion against his wife. Rather, he was convinced that Japan was the most formidable enemy of China and by marrying his daughter to the Emperor, he was creating a powerful relationship with one of its most formidable leaders.
This was exactly the same idea Cixi had when she sent her daughter to Japan. She wanted to establish a partnership with the most formidable country in Asia, Japan. If she could do that, she had a lot of leverage over both China and Japan.
Finally, two additional points about Yuan Shikai. He is said to have been very handsome and charming in his younger years.
Yuan Shikai (Chinese: 袁世凱; pinyin: Yuán Shìkǎi; 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was a Chinese military and government official who rose to power during the late Qing dynasty. He tried to save the dynasty with a number of modernization projects including bureaucratic, fiscal, judicial, educational, and other reforms, despite playing a key part in the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform. He established the first modern army and a more efficient provincial government in North China in the last years of the Qing dynasty before the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor, the last monarch of the Qing dynasty, in 1912. Through negotiation, he became the first official president of the Republic of China in 1912.[1]
