Anhui clique

The Anhui Clique
皖系 Wǎn Xì
Active1916–1920
Disbanded1920
Country Republic of China
AllegianceBeiyang government
TypeWarlord faction
Size40,000–100,000 (Estimate)
EngagementsZhili–Anhui War
Occupation of Mongolia
Commanders
PremierDuan Qirui
GeneralXu Shuzheng

The Anhui clique (Chinese: 皖系; pinyin: Wǎn Xì) was a military and political organization, one of several mutually hostile cliques or factions that split from the Beiyang clique in the Republic of China's Warlord Era. It was named after Anhui province because several of its generals–including its founder, Duan Qirui–were born in Anhui.[1]

The clique's main members were Duan Qirui, Duan Zhigui, Jin Yunpeng, Wang Yitang, Lu Yongxiang, Zhang Jingyao, Wu Guangxin, Chen Shufan, Zheng Shiqi, Xu Shuzheng, etc.

The Anhui Clique primarily saw their main base of support around the Anhui Province and the Beiyang Government

Because the Anhui clique organized itself very early, it was more politically sophisticated than its warlord rivals.

The Anhui clique had an uneasy co-existence with the Zhili clique and Fengtian clique in the politics of the Beiyang government, often finding itself at odds with the two cliques.

  1. ^ Gao, James Z. (2009-06-16). Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6308-8.

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