In the Central Plains War, Beijing was taken in June, 1928, from an alliance of the warlords Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan.

The former warlord Yan Xishan, who had fled to Nanking only one month before, quickly insinuated himself within the Li-Chiang rivalry, attempting to have Li and Chiang reconcile their differences in the effort to resist the Communists.

After the Legislative Yuan rejected Chu, Li was obliged to choose Yan Xishan instead.

The Kuomintang incited anti Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang sentiments among Chinese Muslims and Mongols, encouraging for them to topple their rule during the Central Plains War.

It was launched by Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan, and Wang Jingwei.

* Yan Xishan, ruled Shanxi Province until 1948.

From right to left, are Generals Cheng Jin ( 何成浚 ), Zhang Zuobao ( 張作寶 ), Chen Diaoyuan ( 陳調元 ), Chiang Kai-shek, Woo Tsin-hang, Yan Xishan, Ma Fuxiang, Ma Sida ( 馬四達 ), and Bai Chongxi.

Between 1929 and 1930, Wang collaborated with Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan to form a central government in opposition to the one headed by Chiang.

During the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, Kung mobilized forces in support of Yan Xishan, helping Yan to overthrow the authority of the Qing government in Shanxi.

After his move to the central government, Kung continued to advocate for good relations between Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan.

They miscalculated however, and his son quickly pledged his allegiance to Chiang Kai-shek, turning his forces over to Kuomintang control and supported Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan.

However, warlords such as Li Zongren and Yan Xishan who used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die.

* Yan Xishan ( Yen Hsi-shan ) — " The Model Governor ".

The twentieth-century Chinese warlord, Yan Xishan, cited the reforms of Wang Anshi to justify his use of a limited form of local democracy in Shanxi.

When Yan Xishan declared his intention to take Beijing, Zhang decided it was best to evacuate.

Local provincial warlords who seized or enhanced their power included Li Zongren of the New Guangxi Clique, Yan Xishan of the Shanxi clique, Feng Yuxiang and his Northwestern or Guominjun Clique, Tang Shengzhi in Hunan, Chiang Kuang-Nai in Fujian, Sheng Shicai of Xinjiang, Long Yun of Yunnan, Wang Jialie of Guizhou, Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui of the Sichuan Clique, Han Fuqu of Shandong, Bie Tingfang ( 别廷芳 ) of Henan, the Ma Clique of Ma Bufang and his family in Qinghai, Ma Hongkui in Ningxia, and Ma Zhongying in Gansu, Chen Jitang and his Cantonese Clique, Lu Diping ( 鲁涤平 ) of Jiangxi and Jing Yuexiu ( 井岳秀 ) of Shaanxi.

When the Japanese invaded Shanxi, the Red Army ( renamed the Eighth Route Army ) assisted the Kuomintang warlord, Yan Xishan, in resisting the Japanese, and Peng travelled to the provincial capital of Taiyuan with Zhou Enlai to coordinate tactics.

In March 1936, Manchurian troops occupying Chahar invaded northeastern Suiyuan, which was controlled by the Shanxi warlord Yan Xishan.

Yan Xishan placed his best troops and most able generals, including Zhao Chengshou and Yan's son-in-law, Wang Jingguo, under the command of Fu Zuoyi.

Nationalist rule was strongest in the eastern regions around the capital Nanjing, but regional militarists such as Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan retained considerable local authority.

On October 29, Yan Xishan of the New Army led an uprising in Taiyuan, the capital city of the province of Shanxi, along with Yao Yijie ( 姚以價 ), Huang Guoliang ( 黃國梁 ), Wen Shouquan ( 溫壽泉 ), Li Chenglin ( 李成林 ), Zhang Shuzhi ( 張樹幟 ) and Qiao Xi ( 喬煦 ).

They then announced the establishment of Shanxi Military Government with Yan Xishan as the military governor.

An influx of immigrants, mainly from the Yan ( Hebei ) and Qi ( Shandong ) provinces, continued without cessation, implanting Chinese culture into the former Gojoseon area.

The ski industry blasted the Board and continued to install Yan lifts.

Wei Yan became a valuable asset to Liu Bei's military, and he continued to serve Liu Bei's state of Shu Han well until Zhuge Liang died.

During the War, Wah Yan continued operations in Macau for a period of time.

At the conclusion of the series, F4 Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Vanness Wu and Ken Chu continued to perform together and released three studio albums as quartet boy band F4.

Wang continued his campaign against Former Yan, and he advanced on Hu Pass ( 壺關, in modern Changzhi, Shanxi ), defeating all Former Yan resistance on the way.

Meanwhile, Former Yan, which had already captured You Province ( 幽州, modern Beijing, Tianjin, and northern Hebei ) and moved its capital to Jicheng ( 薊城, in modern Beijing — note different character than old capital ), continued to advance south.

When his depleted forces finally arrived to join Mao in Yan ' an, Zhang continued his losing challenge Mao, and left the party in 1938.

Even though both he and his commander, Cui Huijing ( 崔慧景 ), were subsequently defeated by Northern Wei forces in battle, in 498 Xiao Yan was made the governor of Yong Province and the defender of Yong Province's capital, the important city Xiangyang ( 襄陽, in modern Xiangfan, Hubei ), and he continued in that post after Emperor Ming's death and succession by his son Xiao Baojuan.

Xiao Yingzhou had himself and Xiao Yan given equivalent titles, and Xiao Yingzhou remained at Jiangling ( 江陵, in modern Jingzhou, Hubei ), the capital of Jing Province, with the new emperor, while Xiao Yan continued to advance against the old emperor Xiao Baojuan.

( Some historians, including the modern historian Bo Yang, believed that Emperor Xuanzong's continued issuance of edicts, while not on the surface conflicting with Emperor Suzong's authority, caused Emperor Suzong pressure to try to recapture Chang ' an as quickly as possible to avoid any contention for the throne — either in the form of Emperor Xuanzong himself resuming imperial authority or in the form of another imperial prince rising to defeat Yan.

She beat María Emilia Salerni, Agnes Szatmari and Natalie Grandin to qualify and then continued winning by defeating Yan Zi in the first round.

He attended Wah Yan College, a very eminent all male Jesuit secondary school in Hong Kong, after which he continued his tertiary education at the University of Hong Kong, Syracuse University in the United States and completed an MPhil at the London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE ) in the United Kingdom.

With Xiao Baojuan having lost the love of his generals ( and having to fight off several more coup attempts within Jiankang itself ), Xiao Yan was able to win battle after battle, capturing Yingcheng ( 郢城, in modern Wuhan, Hubei ) in summer 501, and then forcing the surrender of Chen Bozhi ( 陳伯之 ), the governor of Jiang Province, in fall 501.

However, his further attempts to advance against Chang ' an was blocked by Li Guangbi, and the Yan and Tang forces went into a stalemate.

In 1853 work began on the Yan Yean Reservoir to provide water for Melbourne.

The methods he popularized in Yan ' an shaped public security work through the Cultural Revolution and beyond.

* B & T Marketing and Media interview with Yan on his publishing work ( PDF )

The entire work was accepted by most scholars until the 17th century, when Yan Ruoqu showed that the Old Text chapters had been forged in the 3rd or 4th centuries AD.

Yan then began attracting Shanxi natives across China to return and work for his government in various patriotic organizations.

Guo succeeded in persuading Bo to sign an anti-Communist confession to secure his release ( with the tacit support of the Communist Party ) and Bo returned to Shanxi to work with Yan Xishan in October 1936.

After this initial description of Yan Su's device, the text continues to describe the work of Wu Deren, who crafted a wheeled device that would combine the odometer and south-pointing chariot:

However, since the publication of that work, the phrase " faithfulness, expressiveness, and elegance " has been attributed to Yan Fu as a standard for any good translation and has become a cliché in Chinese academic circles, giving rise to numerous debates and theses.

However, the plan did not work out all right as Jangsu turned against them and destroyed Northern Yan in 438.

Without the protection of his father, Xi went to work in Yanchuan County, Yan ' an, Shaanxi, in 1969 in Mao Zedong's Down to the Countryside Movement.

Before his work at Nankai, Yan Xiu was an intellectual with a strong understanding of traditional Chinese culture who had held positions at the prestigious Hanlin Academy earlier in his career, and in both China's provincial and central governments.

When Qin was on his way to Yan ' an to report on his work to CPC, he died in an airplane crash in Shanxi.

Composed in Yan ' an in early 1939 during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the work was inspired by a patriotic poem by Guang Weiran, which was also adapted as the lyrics.

Premiered on April 13 of the same year in the Shanbei Gongxue Hall of Yan ' an, the work soon spread to all parts of China.

It was said that while Yan Liben was skilled in public work projects, he became particularly known for his artistic skills.

Construction work on the Xinei (" inner west ") began in 1406, upon the foundations of the Yan King's Palace.

During his stay in Russia, he edited and re-orchestrated the work, which was later modified by Li Huanzhi, Qu Wei, Yan Liangkun.