| Sun Yat-sen | First leader after the emporer, declared China as a democracy. Nationalist. |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Second leader after the emporer, rid of the warlords. Nationalist. |
| Mao Zedong | Third leader after the emporer; started the Great Leap Forward, the Great Cultural Revolution, the Red Book, the Red Guard, and the Red Brigade, wanted to get rid of the 4 olds. Communist. |
| Deng Xiaoping | Fourth leader after the emporer; created the 4 modernizations, was leader when Gorbachev of the U.S.S.R came, was leader during Tiananmen Square, created the 4 Special Zones. Communist. |
| Jiang Zemin | Fifth leader after the emporer. Communist |