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Chen Jitang (traditional Chinese: 陳濟棠; simplified Chinese: 陈济棠; pinyin: Chén Jìtáng; Wade–Giles: Chên 2 Chi 4 Tʻang 2; Jyutping: Can4 Zai3 Tong4) (January 23, 1890 – November 3, 1954), also spelled Chen Chi-tang, was a Chinese military officer during the era of Nationalist China.
Chen recognized the economic advantages of highways, but his primary interest in con structing them was to facilitate troop movements, which he deemed crucial to warding off attacks from the outside and maintaining order in the province (see Chen Jitang, 1933: 203-4).
Chen Jitang. Contributor: C. Peter Chen. Chen Jitang was born into an ethnic Hakka family in Fangcheng, Guangxi, China. He joined the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance in 1908 and participated in the 1911 Xinhai Revolution.
Chen Jitang, for instance, was different from his Guangxi ally, Li Zongren, in the sense that he was parochial in outlook. His agenda aimed essentially at “safeguarding Guangdong and providing reassurance to the Guangdong people” (baojing anmin).
Chen Jitang (January 23, 1890 – November 3, 1954) was born into a Hakka Chinese family in Fangcheng, Guangxi. He joined the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance in 1908 and began serving in the Guangdong Army in 1920, rising from battalion to brigade commander.
I start with a discussion of Chen Jitang's meteoric rise to power, then analyze the fiscal resources, strat-egies, and problems of Chen's military regime. BUILDING A WARLORD REGIME: CHEN JITANG'S QUEST FOR SUPREMACY IN GUANGDONG BECOMING KING OF THE SOUTHERN SKIES Chen Jitang joined the army after graduating from the Guangdong
Chen Jitang, even contested the revolutionary legitimacy of the Nationalist Government from his provincial base in Guangzhou from 1931 to 1936. Chen Jitang was the most prominent of a succession of provincial warlords who governed Guangdong more or less independently of central control from shortly after the launching of the
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