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Lists portal; Major Chinese warlord coalitions as of 1925. The Warlord Era was a historical period of the Republic of China that began from 1916 and lasted until the mid-1930s, during which the country was divided and ruled by various military cliques following the death of Yuan Shikai in 1916.
During the early 1930s, most warlords in China were nominally loyal to the Nationalist government in Nanking. During the New Culture Movement, Chen Duxiu introduced the term Junfa (軍閥), taken from the Japanese gunbatsu. It was not widely used until the 1920s, when it was taken up by left-wing groups to excoriate local militarists. [4]
Chart of Chinese progress from a US wartime pamphlet The Bund in Shanghai in the 1930s. The Nanjing decade (also Nanking decade, Chinese: 南京十年; pinyin: Nánjīng shí nián, or the Golden decade, Chinese: 黃金十年; pinyin: Huángjīn shí nián) is an informal name for the decade from 1927 (or 1928) to 1937 in the Republic of China.
The Ma Clique warlords were all generals in the military of the Republic of China, who controlled most of Mainland China until it was overtaken by the communist People's Liberation Army. The clique was begun by Muslim generals who served in the military of the Qing dynasty, most notably in the Kansu Braves army, who fought in the Boxer ...
Flag of Twelve Rays Sun in Blue Sky.It was used by Hui warlords who allied themselves with Kuomintang Nanjing and Chiang Kai-shek.. Ma Zhongying, also Ma Chung-ying (traditional Chinese: 馬仲英; simplified Chinese: 马仲英; pinyin: Mǎ Zhòngyīng; Wade–Giles: Ma Chung-ying, Xiao'erjing: مَا جٌیِئٍ; c. 1910 or 1908 – after 1936), nickname Commander Ga (尕司令, lit ...
The Zhili clique (Chinese: 直隸系軍閥; pinyin: Zhílì xì jūnfá) was a military faction that split from the Republic of China's Beiyang Army during the country's Warlord Era. It was named for Zhili Province (modern-day Hebei), which was the clique's base of power. At its height, it also controlled Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Hubei.
The Sichuan clique (simplified Chinese: 川军; traditional Chinese: 川軍; pinyin: Chuān Jūn) was a group of warlords in the warlord era in China. During the period from 1927 to 1938, Sichuan was in the hands of six warlords: Liu Wenhui, Liu Xiang, Yang Sen, Deng Xihou, He Zhaode, and Tian Songyao, with minor forces being Xiong Kewu and Lü ...
Waldron argued that Zhang was one of the most talented military leaders among the Chinese warlords, something his critics refused to acknowledge. [32] Zhang loved to boast about the size of his penis, which became part of his legend. [31] [36] He was a "well-known womanizer" [45] and polygamist. [17]