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Wu Peifu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wu Peifu (吳佩孚) (1874–1939), was a major figure in the struggles between the warlords (軍閥) who dominated China during the years 1916 to 1927. Wu Peifu's military strategy was thrown into confusion by this catastrophe in his rear, and he was defeated by Zhang's forces near Tianjin. Wu maintained a power base in Hubei and Henan in central China until he was confronted by the Guomindang army during the Northern Expedition in 1927. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wu_Peifu   (677 words)

Yuan Xi Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Emperor Wu decided that Taoism was no longer suitable for China, and officially declared China to be a Confucian state; however, like the emperors before him, he combined Legalist methods with the Confucian ideal. In a strict academic sense it refers to the period between the foundation of the Wei in 220 and the conquest of the Wu by the Jin Dynasty in 280. The later part of this period was marked by the destruction of Shu by Wei (263), the overthrow of Wei by the Jin Dynasty (265), and the destruction of Wu by Jin (280). image.dawson.creek.population.png.en.ogarnij.net   (13398 words)

Wu P'ei-fu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Wu Peifu. Wu P'ei-fu (1871-1939) was a major Chinese warlord in the period 1916 to 1927. Known as the 'Jade Marshal' he was one of China's best military minds, his warlord troops were some of the best trained and drilled in China, and as leader of the Zhihli Clique he almost continuously fought the northern Chinese warlords like Chang Tso-lin. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wu_P'ei-fu   (189 words)

Northern Expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The main target of this expedition consist of three notorious and powerful warlords of China: Zhang Zuolin who governed Manchuria, Wu Peifu in Central Plain of China and Sun Chuanfang in eastern coast of China. On July 9, 1926, Chiang gave his lecture to 100,000 soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army, which was set up by the students trained in the Whampoa Military Academy and equipped with Russian arsenal in the opening ceremony, which was the official commencement of Northern Expedition. It was no surprise the NRA could march from Zhu River area to Yangtze River in less than half a year and annihilate the main force of Wu and Sun, and strengthen its force from 100,000 to 250,000. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Expedition   (633 words)

WARS & CAMPAIGNS 1927-1937 -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Wu Peifu, who lost Hanyang (one of the triplet cities of Wuhan) on Sept 6th 1926, retreated to Xiaogan, Guangshui and Xinyang consecutively. Wu Peifu did not see Cao Kun till two days later, and Cao Kun rebuked Wu Peifu for various blunders that led Zhi-xi faction to the frustrations and defeats. Wu Peifu's entourage then walked along small mountainside roads in northern Hubei Prov, passing through numerous banditry dens, often with bandits serving as guide in respective domains and holding a sign with 'Wu Peifu' characters. www.uglychinese.org /campaign.htm   (13636 words)

THE TRAGEDY OF CHINESE REVOLUTION -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Wu Peifu revocated Czarist Russian embassy, allowed the delegation of USSR Far East Republic (i.e., Chita Government) to visit Peking, and nullified the military agreements with Japan. Wu Peifu replied that he could prep a division for taking over Mongolia in substitution of the Russian Red Army and that USSR should hand over the railroad to China once China possessed the capability for managing the railroad. Wu Peifu's Wang Chonghui cabinet collapsed and Cao Kun's Zhang Shaozeng cabinet was formed. www.uglychinese.org /tragedy.htm   (12366 words)

1923, Feb. 4. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History The newly founded (Feb. 2) general union of railway workers along the Wuhan-Beijing line called a general strike. Militarist Wu Peifu (1874–1939) sent his troops in to break it up; 35 workers were killed (Feb. 7), and the strike ended (Feb. 9). The first Guomindang national congress convened in Guangzhou, with Sun as president, admitted Communists into the party, and accepted Soviet advisers, notably Borodin, who proceeded to reorganize the GMD along Soviet lines of democratic centralism, which tended to strengthen the leader and party discipline. www.bartleby.com /67/2466.html   (355 words)

Wu P'ei-fu --  Encyclopædia Britannica The son of a tradesman, Wu joined the famous Peiyang Army of Yüan Shih-k'ai, the leading general of the Ch'ing dynasty (1644–1911/12) and the first president of the Republic of China, and rapidly rose to high position. After Yüan's death in 1916, Wu became the chief bulwark of the shaky Peking government. Both terms actually mean “skill,” and in modern China wu shu is the term used to cover all martial arts. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077593   (753 words)

Tales of Old China Warlords were judged primarily by the degree to which they were regarded as friendly or hostile to foreign (that is, Shanghai) interests. Wu Peifu was the favourite of the British. He was well disposed, had at least some of the attributes of the traditional Chinese gentleman with whom the British felt an instinctive affinity, and brooked no nonsense from Communists or organised labour (Figure 8). www.talesofoldchina.com /sapajou/sapajou2.cfm   (292 words)

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: 'Modern Warfare in China in 1924-1925': Soviet film propaganda to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) This was a major battle - hundreds of thousands of men fought - between Zhang Zuolin and the dominant Zhili faction, whose military leader was General Wu Peifu (Wu P'ei-fu 1874-1939). This was because Wu Peifu's ally Feng Yuxiang (Fung Yu-hsiang 1882-1948) deserted the front at a key moment, marched on Peking, and, in the so-called Peking coup d'etat (Beijing zhengbian) overthrew the existing regime and proclaimed a new and mildly progressive government. Wu Peifu's military strategy was thrown into confusion by this catastrophe in his rear; all bets on the outcome of the war, foreign and domestic, were off. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2584/is_n3_v15/ai_17426220   (1290 words)

Chinese History - The Republic of China 中華民國 event history (www.chinaknowledge.de) In 1920 the Anhui Clique that was accused of collaborating with Japan was defeated by Cao Kun and should further play no important role in the question of who reigned the northern capital Beijing. Wu Peifu 吳佩孚 controlled the region from Zhili 直隸 (modern Hebei) down to Hunan, Sun Chuanfang 孫傳芳 the region from Anhui and Jiangsu down to Fujian and Jiangxi, Zhang Zuolin 張作霗 Jingzhao äº¬å † (Beijing) and Fengtian 奉天 (east of modern Liaoning), while the Guomindang controlled Guangxi and Guangdong (Liangguang å ©å»£). The power of Sun Chuanfang and Wu Peifu was crushed, but Zhang Zuolin with his Anguo army (Anguojun 安國軍; "Army Pacifying the Country") was still a mighty potentate in northern China. www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Rep/rep-event.html   (2707 words)

Liu Bocheng   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) In 1923 in the war against the warlord Wu Peifu which was a response to Northern Expedition of Kuomintang, Liu was appointed as commander of Eastern Route and later was regarded a prominent general of Sichuan. During the Long March, in the end of 1934 Liu was reappointed as Chief of Staff of Red Army and commander of Central Column consisted of most CPC senior leaders such as Bo, Braun, Zhou and Mao. Liu led the army to across Wu River and took control of Zunyi, a county of Guizhou province. intranethelp.com /wiki/index.php?title=Liu_Bocheng   (3706 words)

tour destinations wuhan wuhan974 Owing to its exclusive foreign connections, central Hankou was almost leveled during the nationwide 1911 uprisings against the Qing, and later, rail workers leading the Communist-inspired 1923 strike were massacred in Hankou by the Nationalist warlord Wu Peifu. The walled capital of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, Tang rulers later made the city a major port which, under the Mongols, became the administrative center of a vast region covering present-day Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces. Until 1911, however, the city had sidestepped the mainstream of Chinese history, but on October 10 that year a bomb exploded prematurely at the headquarters of a revolutionary group planning to protest against the politics behind the construction of the Hankou-Chongqing rail line. www.cntravel.biz /china_tour_destinations/wuhan/wuhan974.shtml   (628 words)

The owners fascinating biography My grandfather Xu Zhanzhi was a top student of Wu Zhihui (Wu, a Kuomintang veteran, later became a senior statesman of the Republic of China). Wu to Japan to study military affairs and graduated from Japan’s military academy. At the invitation of General Wu Peifu, my grandfather participated in the Northern Expedition government. www.bonsaiinformation.com /Potsforbonsai/biography.htm   (4450 words)

Biography of Wu Peifu Major figure in the warlord struggles of China (1916–27), born in Shandong province, E China. He joined the new army created by Yuan Shikai, and after Yuan's death (1916), when Duan Qirui sought to reunite China by force, Wu and other N generals refused Duan's orders. In the civil war which followed, he was unable to sustain his government of national unity (1923), and was defeated in battle near Tientsin. www.allbiographies.com /biography-WuPeifu-34964.html   (96 words)

[No title] The Jing Han Railway Strike of 1923 was a political strike against the curtailing of the rights to organize independent unions by warlord Wu Peifu. I worked on a farm for half a year in Wu Wei County in 1958, and I know how the county and provincial Party Commission Secretaries disregarded human lives by “launching satellites” (a nickname for forging astronomically high food production records). Between the large numbers who fled and those that died of starvation, Wu Wei County’s population plummeted from over a million in 1958 to less than 700,000 in 1960. courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/024Compecon/China/020828rift2.txt   (9210 words)

Find in a Library: Militarism in modern China : the career of Wu P'ei-Fu, 1916-39 Militarism in modern China : the career of Wu P'ei-Fu, 1916-39 To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/254cbb38fca8ea77.html   (61 words)

[No title] Finer's arguments highlight a central controversy in Chinese political history: Warlords such as Wu Peifu (1887-1939) and Feng Yuxiang (1882-1948) considered themselves custodians of the national interest and did not hesitate to use force to pursue that interest. As with Yuan's use of Goodnow, and Duan's and Li's turn to the military, Wu's request for foreign intervention indicates the naivete and inexperience of Chinese politicians at the time.Germany was also deeply implicated in Chinese politics. He believed that combining the good parts of both of them to make a new civilization was the best strategy and encouraged the Chinese to use their higher ‘spiritual’ civilization to salvage the superior Western ‘material’ civilization. sociologyesoscience.com /wokeup.html   (6963 words)

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Cheng shi bai pi shu / Li Peifu zhu Wu bian wu ji de zao chen : Li Peifu zhong duan pian xiao shuo zi xuan ji If you encounter problems, contact lbsystem@ust.hk for assistance. ustlib.ust.hk /availlim/search/a?Li,Peifu,1953-&search_code=a   (35 words)

lu xun biography According to Wang Shiqing, he was disgusted with the anarchists like Wu Zhihui, who exaggerated their own importance. The political climate was tense, and LX had to escape the authorities for a time during the spring of 1926. In the summer, when Zhang Zuolin (the Liaoning warlord) and Wu Peifu (the Hebei warlord) took over Beijing, LX fled to Xiamen. mclc.osu.edu /rc/bios/lxbio.htm   (9719 words)

Northern Expedition: Information From Answers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Communist activists spread out across SE China, fomenting strikes and thereby weakening the enemy's rear. By Mar., 1927, the Kuomintang armies (swelled by the defection of intact enemy units) had pushed back the warlord armies of Wu P'ei-fu and Sun Ch'uan-fang and had taken all of SE China including the economic centers of Wuhan and Shanghai. At this point, a struggle broke out between the right-wing Kuomintang commander in chief, Chiang Kai-shek, and the left-wing-controlled provisional government at Wuhan under Wang Ching-wei. big5.xinhuanet.com /gate/big5/www.answers.com/topic/northern-expedition   (939 words)

Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Who's Your Favorite Chinese Hero(es)? Unfortunately, after Zhili clique (which was once pro-Xu) held the ultimate positions in the government, they turned against Xu. Zhili Clique warlords, namely Cao Kun 曹錕; and Wu Peifu 吳佩孚 put the coward Li Yuanhong 黎元洪 as the president. After one year, the parliament (composed of congressmen who received bribes from Zhili Clique) elected Cao Kun as the president of Republic of China. www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t4918-50.html   (4368 words)

Slide Carousel for Popular Chinese Prints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) title: Battle at Shanghaiguan (Zhang Zuolin vs. Wu Peifu, Sept. 1924) comments: Zhang and Wu were rival warlords, that is, regionally based leaders who commanded their own armies and fought for control of parts of China in the period after the Qing dynasty had fallen and before the Nationalist party was able (in 1927) to reestablish a strong central government. title: Battle at Shanghaiguan (Zhang Zuolin vs. Wu Peifu, Sept. 1924) Detail: Fallen soldier icg.harvard.edu /cgi-bin/imagebase/carousel?name=fs35e   (230 words)

the qing's "new army" - China History Forum, online chinese history forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) After Yuan Shikai's death the Beiyang Army split into cliques led by Yuan's principal proteges. Duan Qirui's Anhui clique and the Zhili clique founded by Feng Guochang, but led after Feng's death by Cao Kun and Wu Peifu, were the principal Beiyang cliques. Disunited, the power of the Beiyang Army was challenged by provincial armies such as Yan Xishan's forces in Shaanxi and Zhang Zuolin's Fengtian clique. www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=850&mode=linear   (2618 words)

Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Da Zhonghua Clan Sep 19 2004, 07:14 PM Report of the State Counsil Under the direction of yuanshou Du Hongyi, the State Counsil appointed Wu Peifu the new governor of Henan province. Former governor, Yang Licheng, was invited to Beijing to become yuanshou's private advisor. www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t3675-1550.html   (2687 words)

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