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Mar 18, 1893 Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China Died on 01 Dec 1966 (aged 73)
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About Bai Chongxi
- Bai Chongxi (18 March 1893 – 1 December 1966; Chinese: ???; pinyin: Bái Chóngxi; Wade–Giles: Pai Ch'ung-hsi; IPA: [p?´?? t????´??i], Xiao'erjing: ???? ??? ???) was a Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China (ROC) and a prominent Chinese Nationalist leader.
- He was of Hui ethnicity and of the Muslim faith.
- From the mid-1920s to 1949, Bai and his close ally Li Zongren ruled Guangxi province as regional warlords with their own troops and considerable political autonomy.
- His relationship with Chiang Kai-shek was at various times antagonistic and cooperative.
- He and Li Zongren supported the anti-Chiang warlord alliance in the Central Plains War in 1930, then supported Chiang in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War.
- Bai was the first defense minister of the Republic of China from 1946-48.
- After losing to the Communists in 1949, he fled to Taiwan, where he died in 1966.
