Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The prelude of the Second Zhili–Fengtian War was the First Jiangsu-Zhejiang War , which broke on 3 September 1924, and provided a direct excuse for the Fengtian clique to start the war. The next day, Zhang Zuolin held a conference at his residence. Every Fengtian army officer ranking brigade commander or higher was in attendance.
The Fengtian clique (Chinese: 奉系军阀; pinyin: Fèngxì Jūnfá; Wade–Giles: Feng-hsi Chün-fa) was the faction that supported warlord Zhang Zuolin during China's Warlord Era. It took its name from Fengtian Province , which served as its original base of support.
The coup occurred at a crucial moment in the Second Zhili–Fengtian War and allowed the pro-Japanese Fengtian clique to defeat the previously dominant Zhili clique. Followed by a brief period of liberalization under Huang Fu, this government was replaced on 23 November 1924, by a conservative, pro-Japanese government led by Duan Qirui. The ...
September 1 — Yuan-Shih Chow, Chinese and American probabilist (d. 2022) September 24 — Shi Suxi, Chinese Buddhist priest (d. 2006) October 2 — Zheng Zhemin, explosives engineer (d. 2021) October 4 — Samuel Lamb, protestant pastor (d. 2013) November 6 — Chen Haozhu, cardiologist (d. 2020) November 10 — Tsai Wan-lin, Taiwanese ...
As China's Fengtiang province was on the verge of losing the Zhili–Fengtian War that Fengtian's leader Zhang Zuolin had started on September 15, Governor Zheng Shiqi of the Anhui province telegraphed China's President Cao Kun for aid. Cao Kun sent 250,000 troops to Manchuria to resist the Fengtian troops, although the additional aid failed to ...
The Fengtian clique controlled most of Manchuria up to the Shanhai Pass and had a close relationship with Japan. [16] Its civilian branch was the Communications Clique , under Premier Liang Shiyi . It took power in Beijing after the Second Zhili–Fengtian War but could not stop the Kuomintang during the Northern Expedition , and was driven ...
[citation needed] Cao was imprisoned and leadership passed to Wu who along with Sun Chuanfang managed to hold central China for the next two years. During the Kuomintang's Northern Expedition, they created a desperate alliance with their former Fengtian enemies but were defeated entirely. The Zhili clique was the only warlord faction to be ...
Qi Xieyuan (Chinese: 齊燮元; Wade–Giles: Ch'i Hsieh-yuan; April 28, 1885 [note 1] - December 18, 1946), born Qi Ying, with a courtesy name of Qi Fuwan and the art name of Yaoshan, was a general of the military of the Republic of China and a warlord of the Zhili clique.