Bai Chongxi was a Chinese military general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and a prominent leader of the Kuomintang. He was of Hui ethnicity and of the Muslim faith.
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Chinese generals pay tribute to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Beijing in 1928 after the success of the Northern Expedition. From right to left, are Gen. Cheng Jin, Gen. Zhang Zuobao, Gen. Chen Diaoyuan, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, Wu Zhihui, Gen. Yan Xishan, Gen. Ma Fuxiang, Gen. Ma Sida and Gen. Bai Chongxi.
In May 1938, Bai Chongxi appeared on the cover of The Young Companion
Bai Chongxi as the 1st Minister of National Defense of the Republic of China after the 1947 Constitution.
The Shanghai massacre of 12 April 1927, the April 12 Purge or the April 12 Incident as it is commonly known in China, was the violent suppression of Chinese Communist Party organizations and leftist e
Bai Chongxi
…was given the laudatory nickname Xiao Zhuge, literally "Zhuge Liang Jr.", of the Three Kingdoms fame. Bai was the commander of Kuomintang forces in the Shanghai massacre of 1927, where he directed the KMT purge of Communists in the party. In 1928, during the Northern Expedition, Bai led Kuomintang forces in the defeat and…
Communists being rounded up during the purges
Chiang Kai-shek at the beginning of the Northern Expedition in 1926
Public beheading of a communist
The Nanking Nationalist government was established on April 18, with Chiang Kai-shek as head of government.