Kawashima Yoshiko

Aisin Gioro Xianyu, known in Japan as Kawashima Yoshiko, was a Manchu stateswoman who dominated Asian affairs from the 1940's to the 1950's. After having achieved Manchurian independence from Japan, she developed Manchuria into an industrial powerhouse. She both provoked, and personally won the Chinese Civil War and the Asian theater of WW2. Following these victories, she established the Greater East Asian Confederation.

With Pax Sinica re-achieved by the concluding months of 1942, Xianyu, with support from Puyi, the Chinese Emperor, led Chinese forces in a surprise attack against the Germans, thereby preventing German world dominance. With this action, China earned a greater seat when the time came to redraw the world borders.

Following the end of WW2 and the beginning of the cold war, China positioned itself as a centerpiece of global influence. Despite still reemerging as a global power, China's positioning made it a key ally that both the Americans and Soviets tried to bring to their side; China, as a result, received industrial development from both sides.

A master of complex politics around the world, Xianyu managed to play the major powers against each other, acquiring intensive foreign investment from all of them. In 1938, after the independence of Manchuria from Japan, she managed to simultaneously attract investment from the Germans, French, English, Russians, and Americans. She also earned the respect of Kwantung military, whom helped her develop the Manchuria naval and air forces

Called both the Napoleon and Bismarck of the East, Xianyu was remembered for both her brilliant political and military achievements. She had a strong-willed but polite personality and was known to be quite humorous at times. Despite sexist stances within some of the upper Chinese nobility, she manged to maintain her power both through her close connection to the emperor and with her track-record.

Many historians, especially those of Chinese descent, praise her as a visionary whom was instrumental in reuniting China and reestablishing Asia's predominant position on the global stage. She is equally respected by members of Koreo-Japan; she is often referred by them as "サムライ姫" or "Princess Samurai".

While Emperor Xuantong is considered the architect of modern Chinese philosophy, Xianyu is considered the founder and architect of the modern Chinese state.