Liu Wenhui

Liu Wenhui

Liu Wenhui (* 1895 ; † 1976 ) was one of the Chinese warlords who ruled over provinces or parts of China as governors during the time of the republic (rule of the National Party, Chinese Guomindang ).

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Liu Wenhui ruled Sichuan , the province that joins Tibet to the east , and also came into conflict with Tibetan rulers in Kham , but also with the Muslim-Chinese Hui governor Ma Bufang in Amdo / Qinghai. After the Lhasa government declared independence by the 13th Dalai Lama , the latter tried to expand his sphere of influence further to the east of Kham. That occurred u. a. Liu Wenhui partially successful. However, he never succeeded in completely controlling the special administrative zone established from the late 1920s and then for a while the independent Chinese Kham province of Xikang . Since 1932 at the latest , the Yangtze River , which flows through Xikang / Kham in the middle from north to south, became the border between the Tibet of the Dalai Lama and the area of ​​influence of Liu Wenhui at that time. This had to deal internally with Khampa autonomy, so in 1932 in Bathang .

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liu is the family name here, Wenhui is the first name.