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Yen Hsi-shan

American  
[yuhn shee-shahn] / ˈjʌn ˈʃiˈʃɑn /
(Pinyin) Yan Xishan

noun

  1. 1882–1960, Chinese general.


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Generals Yen Hsi-shan and Han Fu-chu warlords of Shansi-Suiyan and Shantung provinces respectively, will command the left and right wings; command of the important centre will be divided between Generals Liu Chih and Feng Chi-han.

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Delighted by this music, a huge crowd gathered to watch the formalizing of a "government"' created some weeks ago when Marshal Yen Hsi-shan simply announced that he is "President."

From Time Magazine Archive

Yen Hsi-shan, Super Tuchun of Shansi, so-called "model province," who last week threw in his lot with the Nationalists, after months of alleged political bargaining.

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Feng has been spending the summer in poor health near the "Sacred Mountain," meditating an alliance with model Governor Han of Shantung and model Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi Province.

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Marshal Yen Hsi-shan received us in one of the small visiting rooms in his huge compound.

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