Feng Yuxiang

Feng Yuxiang

▪ Chinese warlord
Wade-Giles romanization  Feng Yü-hsiang , original name  Feng Jishan , courtesy name (zi)  Huanzhang 
born Nov. 6, 1882, Xingjizhen, Zhili [now in Hebei province], China
died Sept. 1, 1948, at sea

      Chinese warlord, known as the Christian General, who dominated parts of North China from 1918 to 1930.

      A soldier at the age of 11, Feng was largely self-educated. He rose through the ranks, gathering under his command a highly disciplined body of troops. He urged his men to become Protestants, to engage in social reform, to acquire a practical education, and to become physically fit and morally sound.

      In 1924 Feng reorganized his soldiers into the Guominjun (“Peoples' Army”) and seized Beijing, destroying the facade of parliamentary government existing there. He was defeated by Zhang Zuolin, the Manchurian warlord, but received enough aid from the Soviet Union to revitalize his army. He supported the Kuomintang (Guomindang, Nationalist Party) when Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) led its forces northward in 1927 in an attempt to unify the country. Later that year, however, Feng disappointed the Soviets by supporting Chiang against his communist and other left-wing opponents within the Kuomintang. In 1928 Feng reoccupied Beijing, together with Yan Xishan, the warlord of Shanxi province. In 1929 they declared their independence of the Kuomintang but were beaten in 1930 and driven into exile.

      In 1933 Feng made an unsuccessful attempt to gain popular support by leading an army of volunteers against the invading Japanese. In 1947 he went to the United States, where he denounced what he called the “reactionary” policies of Chiang Kai-shek. He died in a fire aboard a Soviet ship on the return voyage.

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