Word: tuchun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tuan Chi-jui, one of China's indolent and honest elder statesmen, rules in Peking without a Parliament which, judging from past performances, is more of a help than a hindrance. But Tuan is merely a puppet of the powerful Manchurian Tuchun, Chang Tso-lin. And, while the latter was protecting foreigners, the former's Government was condemning them. There may be nothing incompatible in this, but it looked as if Tuan was not even a power in his own councils...
...greatest treaty port of China, where the trouble began, the situation was well in control and the city was said to resemble "an armed camp." The strike, declared after the shooting of Chinese, began to wane, but shipping remained completely tied up throughout the week. Chang Hsuehliang, son of Tuchun Chang Tso-lin ("strongest man in China"), arrived with 2,000 cadets to maintain order. Despite precautions, the British Consul was beaten. A British and Japanese boycott was declared but had little effect...
Hankow, about 500 miles due west from Shanghai on the Yang-tsze-kiang River in the inland Province of Hupeh. Despite the efforts of Tuchun Hsia Yao-nan to maintain quiet, an ugly situation rapidly developed. Foreign women, children and missionaries left the city on the eve of an attack by rioters on the British Volunteer Armory and Japanese shops. The British used machine-guns on the rioters; many were killed and wounded...
Marshal Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian Tuchun (War Lord), was marching upon the Capital. General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," discovering that many of his generals were "neutral," decided that he would not fight Chang...
Disturbances of greater or lesser importance were reported from Szechwan, Canton, Hunan and Manchuria, where considerable friction over the Chinese Eastern Railway between Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian Tuchun and co-dictator of the Peking Government, and the Bolsheviki was in progress...