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| '''Yen Chia-kan''' (嚴家淦, 1905–1993) served as Premier of the Republic of China (1963–1972) and briefly as President of Taiwan (1975–1978), succeeding Chiang Kai-shek upon his death before power passed to Chiang Ching-kuo.
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| == Role ==
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| * A technocrat-finance official (he introduced the New Taiwan dollar in 1949), Yen personified the KMT's post-1949 Taiwanese order: developmental economics under one-party security-state control.
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| * His presidency was transitional by design — a caretaker smoothing hereditary succession within the party-state.
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| == Significance ==
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| Minor as a figure, Yen matters analytically as evidence of how the ROC on Taiwan functioned: a Leninist party structure married to technocratic economic management and US patronage — the "free China" showcase whose developmental success story was later weaponized in Cold War propaganda against the mainland (see [[Chiang Ching-kuo]], [[Chiang Kai-shek]]).
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Chiang Kai-shek]]
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| * [[Tridemism]]
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| == References ==
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| [[Category:Taiwan]][[Category:People]][[Category:Cold War]]
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