阎锡山

閻錫山
YánXīshān
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 Yan Xishan (1883-1960), Republican-era Chinese warlord
  2. 2 ruler of Shanxi province from 1911 to 1949

Examples

Yán Xīshān chángqī tǒngzhì Shānxī, bèi chēng wéi Shānxī wáng.
Yan Xishan long ruled Shanxi and was known as the 'King of Shanxi'.
Yán Xīshān zài Shānxī tuīxíng le zìjǐ de xiàndàihuà gǎigé.
Yan Xishan carried out his own modernization reforms in Shanxi.

Tips

history
A survivor of the warlord era, Yan shifted allegiances repeatedly between the Qing, the Beiyang government, Chiang Kai-shek, and briefly the Japanese puppet regime, holding Shanxi for nearly forty years before fleeing to Taiwan in 1949.

Stroke Order

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