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阎锡山与孙中山合影照
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Yan Xishan 1950
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阎锡山

閻錫山
Yán Xīshān
proper noun

Meanings

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

About Yan Xishan

1883–1960 · 政治家 politician

Warlord who held Shanxi for nearly four decades, building railways and industry there and changing sides between rival governments to keep it. He left for Taiwan with the Nationalists in 1949, serving briefly as their premier.

Also called  百川、 山西王

Examples

HSK 6
Yán Xīshān zài Shānxī tuīxíng le zìjǐ de xiàndàihuà gǎigé.
Yan Xishan carried out his own modernization reforms in Shanxi.
HSK 7-9
Yán Xīshān chángqī tǒngzhì Shānxī, bèi chēngwéi Shānxī wáng.
Yan Xishan long ruled Shanxi and was known as the 'King of Shanxi'.

Tips

history
His wartime juggling of Chiang Kai-shek, the Communists and the Japanese is summed up as 在三个鸡蛋上跳舞 'dancing on three eggs'. Under him Shanxi was praised as the 模范省 'model province', and he as the 模范督军 'model governor'.

Stroke Order

阎 yán
锡 xī
山 shān