Ch'en Chiung-ming 陳炯明 Ch'en Chiung-ming (13 January 1878 - 22 September 1933) was an anti-Manchu revolutionary who became an early republican governor of Kwangtung. After Yuan Shih-k'ai deposed him in 1913, he participated in the anti-Yuan campaigns and then headed the forces of Sun Yatsen's constitution protection movement. In October 1920 he occupied Canton, and […]
Ch'en Chi-t'ang 陳濟棠 Ch'en Chi-t'ang (1890 - 3 November 1954), Cantonese military officer, became commander of the Fourth Army in 1928 and chief commander in Kwangtung in 1929. He was best known for helping create a state of nearautonomy at Canton as part of a movement against rule by Chiang Kai-shek, and he controlled Kwangtung […]
Ch'en Li-fu 陳立夫 Ch'en Li-fu (1900-) directed the investigation division of the Kuomintang for about a decade after 1928. He served as secretary general of the Kuomintang central headquarters (1929-31), head of the organization department (1932-36; 1938-39; 1944-48), and minister of education (1938-44). He and his brother, Ch'en Kuo-fu, were known as the leaders of […]
Ch'en Ming-shu 陳銘樞 Ch'en Ming-shu (1890 - 15 May 1965), prominent Kwangtung military man, commanded the Eleventh Army, was civil governor of Kwangtung from 1929 to 1931, and in 1931 took command of the Nineteenth Route Army. He was best known for leading the Fukien revolt in November 1933. In 1949 hejoined the Peking government, […]
Ch'en Ch'i-mei 陳其美 Ch'en Ch'i-mei (1876-18 May 1916), anti- Manchu revolutionary, early patron of Chiang Kai-shek, and supporter of Sun Yat-sen, recruited men and directed such uprisings as the capture of Shanghai in November 1911. During and after the so-called second revolution he opposed and organized maneuvers against Yuan Shih-k'ai. Yuan had him assassinated in […]
Ch'en Ch'ing-yun 陳慶雲 Alt. Chan Hing-wan Ch'en Ch'ing-yun (1897-), known as Chan Hing-wan, pioneer aviator, assisted Sun Yat-sen in his military campaigns and trained many Chinese pilots. He became a member of teh National Aeronautics Commission (1934) and commandant of the Central Aviation Academy (1936). In 1949 he went to live in the United States. […]
Buyantai Chinese. Pai Yun-t'i 白雲梯 Chinese T. Chü-ch'uan 巨川 Buyantai (17 February 1894-), Mongol leader, an official of the Kuomintang, known in Chinese as Pai Yun-t'i. He gained note for his attempts to promote the Kuomintang nationalities program in Inner Mongolia. A Mongol of the Center Kharchin Banner of the Josuto League, Buyantai was born […]
Burhan 鮑爾漢 Alt. Burhan Shahidi Burhan (1894-), political leader, gained notice through his activities in Sinkiang politics for more than 30 years. He was governor of the province from 1949 through 1955. After 1955 he was a leading official representative of Communist China's Muslim minority. There are numerous pockets of obscurity in Burhan's career. His […]
Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei 蔡元培 T. Ho-ch'ing 鶴卿 H. Chieh-min 孑民 Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei (January 1868-5 March 1940), the last of the Hanlin scholars to have major influence in twentieth-century China, was the leading liberal educator of early republican China and an important synthesizer of Chinese and Western intellectual patterns. After the overthrow of the Ch'ing dynasty, he […]
Ts'ao K'un (12 December 1862-17 May 1938), Peiyang general who served as governor of Chihli (Hopei) in 1916 and inspecting commissioner of Chihli, Shantung, and Honan in 1920. With Wu P'ei-fu's support, he headed the Chihli clique in 1920-23. Ts'ao held the presidency at Peking from October 1923 to November 1924. The third son born […]
