Chang Tso-lin

(Pinyin) Zhang Zuo·lin

[jahng tsoh-lin]

noun

1. 1873–1928, Chinese general: military ruler of Manchuria 1918–28.

Example Sentences

For the Chinese Reds, who kept saying "Japan is the enemy," eventually pushed the sharp-nosed, slack-lipped young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, son of Chang Tso-lin, the old warlord of Manchuria, to the supreme effrontery of kidnapping Chiang Kai-shek in northwestern Sian in 1936.

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The other end of the war would at once be undertaken by Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian dynast, who could not afford to let Shansi fall into Feng's clutch.

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Amleto Vespa was born in Italy, became a secret agent of Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin in 1920 and a Chinese citizen in 1924.

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It pointed out that Marshal Chang's ancestors are all buried in Manchuria, that his father the late Marshal Chang Tso-lin awaits burial there.

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They still feared, to be sure, that the Peking War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, might withdraw before the Southern armies,, retire to his war base at Mukden, and abandon Peking to its conquerors; but with General Butler at hand, together with British, Japanese and French marine detachments, the safety of Occidentals in Peking seemed secure.

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