蒋桂战争

蔣桂戰爭

Jiǎng-Guì Zhànzhēng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Chiang-Guangxi War (1929)
2 war between Chiang Kai-shek and the Guangxi warlord clique

Characters

Chiang (surname; here Chiang Kai-shek)

Gui (short name for Guangxi 广西)

Examples

HSK 5

蒋桂战争后，桂系暂时退守广西。

Jiǎng-Guì Zhànzhēng hòu, Guì xì zànshí tuìshǒu Guǎngxī.

After the Chiang-Guangxi War, the Guangxi clique temporarily retreated to defend Guangxi.

HSK 7-9

蒋桂战争是国民党新军阀混战的开端。

Jiǎng-Guì Zhànzhēng shì Guómíndǎng xīn jūnfá hùnzhàn de kāiduān.

The Chiang-Guangxi War was the start of the Nationalist new-warlord wars.

Tips

history

Fought in 1929 between Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing-centered Nationalists and the Guangxi clique (桂系) led by Li Zongren 李宗仁 and Bai Chongxi 白崇禧. After defeating the Northern warlords, Chiang turned on his ostensible allies; he detained Guangdong leader Li Jishen 李济深, split the Cantonese-Guangxi alliance, and combined military pressure with bribery to break the Guangxi forces around Wuhan. The conflict opened a string of intra-Nationalist warlord wars that ran through 1930.

In Pop Culture

桂系 Guì xì

Guangxi clique

Republican-era warlord faction based in Guangxi, led by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi; clashed with Chiang Kai-shek throughout the 1920s–40s

Stroke Order

蒋 Jiǎng

桂 guì

战 zhàn

争 zhēng