Bai Chongxi
Bai Chongxi was a Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and a prominent Chinese Nationalist Muslim leader. He was of Hui ethnicity and of the Muslim faith. From the mid1920s to 1949, Bai and his close ally Li Zongren ruled Guangxi province as regional warlords with their own troops and considerable political autonomy. His relationship with Chiang Kaishek was at various times rivalrous and cooperative. He and Li Zongren supported the antiChiang warlord alliance in the Central Plains War in 1930, and then supported Chiang in the Second SinoJapanese War and the Chinese Civil War. He was the first defense minister of the Republic of China from 1946 to 1948. After losing to the Communists in 1949, Bai fled to Taiwan, where he later died in 1966.
Bai was born in Guilin, Guangxi and given the courtesy name Jiansheng . He was a descendant of a Persian merchant of the name Baiderluden, whose descendants adopted the Chinese surname Bai. His Muslim name was Omar Bai Chongxi. He was the second of three sons. His family was said to have come from Sichuan.
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