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December 4, 1939(1939-12-04) (aged 65) Beiping, Republic of China (Japanese occupied Zone)
Allegiance
Qing dynasty
Republic of China
Service/branch
Beiyang Army, Zhili clique
Years of service
1898–1927
Rank
Marshal
Commands held
3rd Division, Beiyang Army
Battles/wars
Zhili–Anhui War
First Zhili–Fengtian War
Second Zhili–Fengtian War
Northern Expedition (1926–1927)
Awards
Order of Rank and Merit
Order of the Precious Brilliant Golden Grain
Order of Wen-Hu
Order of the Rising Sun
Wu Peifu
Traditional Chinese
吳佩孚
Simplified Chinese
吴佩孚
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wú Pèifú
Wade–Giles
Wu2 P'ei4-fu2
IPA
IPA:[úpʰèɪ̯fú]
Wu on the cover of Time, 8 September 1924; he was the first Chinese person to feature on the cover
Wu Peifu[1] (also spelled Wu P'ei-fu[2]) (Chinese: 吳佩孚; April 22, 1874 – December 4, 1939) was a Chinese warlord and major figure in the Warlord Era in China from 1916 to 1927.
^Karl E. Meyer; Shareen Blair Brysac (10 March 2015). The China Collectors: America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures. St. Martin's Press. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-1-137-27976-7.
^The China Monthly Review, Volume 38. Millard. September 1926.
WuPeifu (also spelled Wu P'ei-fu) (Chinese: 吳佩孚; April 22, 1874 – December 4, 1939) was a Chinese warlord and major figure in the Warlord Era in China...
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decided to remove both of them, with the help of Cao's former subordinate, WuPeifu. Zhang Zuolin then led the Beiyang government until 1928. The warlords...
powerless than his first. His cabinet appointments had to be approved by WuPeifu. Wu's growing power and prestige outshone his mentor and superior officer...
Zhili–Anhui War (1920) though the credit belongs to his chief lieutenant, WuPeifu, the greatest strategist in China at the time. Relations with the Fengtian...
Sun Yat-sen's Northern Expedition. In May, Wu Peifu had a secret appointment with Chen Jiongming. WuPeifu expelled Xu Shichang in the north, and Chen Jiongming...
the National Assembly. His Zhili clique, whose military was commanded by WuPeifu, had already established itself as the dominant military force in China...
while Tong puts it as high as 120,000. The opposing force under General WuPeifu was roughly equivalent in size or slightly smaller. Sources disagree about...
WuPeifu once again refused to follow his orders to invade the southern provinces. Faced with the threat from Feng Guozhang, Cao Kun and WuPeifu's coalescing...
clique, founded by Feng Guozhang but led after Feng's death by Cao Kun and WuPeifu, were the principal Beiyang cliques. Disunited, the power of the Beiyang...
revolutionaries against the Qing dynasty. He rose to high rank within WuPeifu's Zhili warlord faction but launched the Beijing Coup in 1924 that knocked...
notable for joining/defecting to, and subsequently betraying the forces of WuPeifu, Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Zhang Xueliang, the Chinese...
Yankai and Sun Yat-sen against those aligned with the northern warlord WuPeifu. Peng received training in formal tactics from an officer in his brigade...
Anhui clique, an opposing warlord group consisting of the Fengtian and WuPeifu-led Zhili cliques banded together. This coalition expelled the Anhui clique...
Chinese warlord in the Zhili clique and protégé of the "Jade Marshal" WuPeifu. Sun Chuanfang was born in Licheng, Shandong Province. Wang Yingkai, a...
clique began suffering from dissension. Relations with his chief protégé, WuPeifu, soured and there were rumors of an impending split within the Zhili clique...
between 1919 and 1924 during the Warlord Era. Predominately by Cao Kun and WuPeifu.: 134 Ethiopian Empire: In 1884, 5,000 were sent to Menelik II. After...
premier in 1921 after Jin Yunpeng was forced to resign by Zhang Zuolin. WuPeifu removed Liang from his month-long premiership because he suspected Liang...
Chinese National Army were familiar to the use of flood as the warlord WuPeifu used it against them in the 1926 Northern Expedition. The suggestion of...
the Zhili Clique after the Zhili–Anhui War. In 1922 the Zhili warlords WuPeifu and Cao Kun restored the "old" parliament elected in 1912. Cao bribed the...
from March 1923 to May 1924 in the Warlord Era. He was in alliance with WuPeifu. He was defeated by Li Zongren in 1925. Shen Hongying was born in 1871...
Protection Army in April. However, after capturing Hunan, the Zhili commander WuPeifu halted the attack on Guangdong and Guangxi province and had a peaceful...
Sun Chuanfang, Zhili clique warlord and protégé of the "Jade Marshal" WuPeifu (1874–1939)., because of his courtesy name Xin Yuan 馨远 "Xiao Ba Wang 小霸王"...
called warlords were Yan Xishan in Shanxi province, Feng Yuxiang, and WuPeifu, who had reputations as reformers; Zhang Zuolin, who ruled in Manchuria...
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