Wu Peifu

Wu Peifu

▪ Chinese warlord
born April 22, 1874, Penglai, Shandong province, China
died Dec. 4, 1939, Beijing
 Chinese warlord who dominated Beijing from 1917 to 1924.

      The son of a tradesman, Wu joined the famous Beiyang Army of Yuan Shikai, the leading general of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12) and the first president of the Republic of China, and rapidly rose to high position. After Yuan's death in 1916, Wu became the chief bulwark of the shaky Beijing government. In 1922 Wu came into conflict with Zhang Zuolin, the Manchurian warlord who had begun to extend his control into North China near Beijing. Wu secured his position in central China and then in a series of battles drove Zhang Zuolin's army back to its Manchurian base. As a result he became the dominant figure in North China and began to prepare for a campaign to unify all of the country by force. But his stern attitude toward his military associates and his ruthless suppression of a workers' strike on the Beijing-Hankou Railroad in 1923 lost Wu much of his popularity, and he was never able again to consolidate his position. In 1924 Zhang Zuolin launched a new attack and defeated Wu in battles near Tianjin. In 1926 Wu's army was decisively defeated by Nationalist (Nationalist Party) forces under Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) in Wuhan, and Wu fled to Sichuan in 1927. From 1932 until his death, Wu lived in quiet retirement in Beijing.

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