Word: chuan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eclipsed? Super-Tuchun Sun Chuan-feng of Shanghai, who only last spring proclaimed the Yangtze Valley an independent state in vassalage to himself, found his subordinates deserting to Chang Kai-shek in such numbers last week that even his supremacy in Shanghai seemed threatened. The armies of Chang Kai-shek will assumedly make Shanghai their next objective; and among both foreigners and Chinese in the city there was last week the most intense excitement. The final seal of success was put upon Chang Kai-shek's conquest when the great Super- Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, telegraphed...
River Tragedy. One morning last week the Kuang Yuang, a river troopship loaded with munitions and 1,500 mercenaries lay at anchor off Kiukiang on the Yangtze. The soldiers, allegedly adherent to Sun Chuan-feng, dozed, gambled, chomped a frugal meal of rice, fired an occasional shot into the air or at a passing sampan to while away the time...
Super-Tuchun Sun Chuan-feng, "War lord of Shanghai," appeared to have gone to Wu's aid too late (TIME, Sept. 20) and was experiencing difficulty last week in holding against the Communists one of his military strongholds, Nanchang, only 400 miles from Shanghai...
Tensed like a tiger ready to spring, Super-Tuchun Sun Chuan-feng waited throughout the week with 40,000 soldiers mobilized at his stronghold in Chekiang Province, on the seacoast between Peking and Canton...
...General Sun Chuan-Feng (TIME, June 14) overlord of five provinces...