Word: whampoa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another man mentioned as possible successor to Chiang was Defense Minister Ho Ying-chin, who leads the Whampoa Military Academy clique. If, as seems likely, the Gimo had a hand in picking his successor, he would probably prefer...
...father was a military scholar who organized militia for Sun Yat-sen and wrote A History of Chinese Tactics and Strategy of the Past Four Thousand Years. Because Tu was an only son, the old historian did not want him to be a soldier. But Tu ran away, entered Whampoa Military Academy, and graduated with the first class, in 1924. A vigorous sportsman in peacetime-he likes to hunt wild asses from horseback in the Gobi-Tu is also an accomplished paratrooper. He got his training from OSS experts training Commando troops in Kunming...
...ruthless but righteous patriot. Even Tai Li's age was unknown; he was "about" 50. His flat brown nose, wide-set black eyes and triangular ebony brows had appeared in few published photos. His birthplace was Chekiang, Chiang Kai-shek's native province. He studied at Whampoa Military Academy, where Chiang was president...
...Conservative, bespectacled General Ho Ying-chin, 57, Army commander in chief and dean of the powerful Whampoa Group, as the faculty and graduates of China's military academy are known...
...words brushed memories that went back to the beginnings of modern China. In 1924 the Communists were part of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary people's party, the Kuomintang. Chiang, just back from military training in Moscow, had the job of organizing the Whampoa Military Academy, the nucleus of China's new nationalist army. Mao and Chou were his comrades and the army's political commissars. From Canton the three men marched together on the famed Northern Expedition (1926-27), which gave republican China its first taste of unity. They split when Chiang broke with...