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Yan Xishan or Yen Hsi-shan (IPA: [jɛ̌n ɕíʂán]; 8 October 1883 – 22 July 1960) was a Chinese warlord who served in the government of the Republic of China. He effectively controlled the province of Shanxi from the 1911 Xinhai Revolution to the 1949 Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War .
History Yan Xishan's soldiers in Liaozhou (now Zuoquan County) in 1925 during the war with Henan warlord Fan Zhongxiu. Yuan Shikai, after assuming presidency, installed Yan Xishan as the governor of Shanxi. After Yuan's death, Yan consolidated his control over Shanxi and ruled there.
Shangdang Campaign. The Shangdang Campaign ( simplified Chinese: 上党战役; traditional Chinese: 上黨戰役) was a series of battles fought between Eighth Route Army troops led by Liu Bocheng and Kuomintang troops led by Yan Xishan (aka Jin clique) in what is now Shanxi Province, China. The campaign lasted from 10 September 1945, through ...
v. t. e. The Warlord Era was a period in the history of the Republic of China when control of the country was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions from 1916 to 1928. In historiography, the Warlord Era began in 1916 upon the death of Yuan Shikai, the de facto dictator of China after the Xinhai ...
On February 5, 1949, Yan Xishan betrayed his promise of dying with the city by fleeing the city via air, and left his trusted lieutenants, Sun Chu (孙楚), the commander of the nationalist X Corps and Wang Jingguo (王靖 国), the commander of the nationalist XV Corps as the commander-in-chief and the deputy commander-in-chief of the urban ...
Yan Xishan would later become one of the warlords that plagued China during what was known as "the warlord era". Kunming Double Ninth Uprising [ edit ] On 30 October, Li Genyuan (李根源) of the Tongmenghui in Yunnan joined with Cai E , Luo Peijin (羅佩金), Tang Jiyao , and other officers of the New Army to launch the Double Ninth Uprising ...
War in Ningxia (1934) The war in Ningxia of 1934, also known as Sun Dianying Campaign, [4] was a minor civil war for control over the Republic of China 's province of Ningxia, fought between the warlord Sun Dianying and an alliance against him, consisting of the Ma clique, Governor Yan Xishan of Shanxi, and the Nationalist government of China.
The Japanese offensive called 太原作戦 or the Battle of Taiyuan [1] was a major battle fought in 1937 between China and Japan named for Taiyuan (the capital of Shanxi province), which lay in the 2nd Military Region. The battle concluded in a victory for Japan over the National Revolutionary Army (NRA), including part of Suiyuan, most of ...