kwangsei

Updated: May 14, 2025

During this period, Kwantung province was governed by military carpet-baggers from the neighboring province of Kwangsei, which was practically alone of the southern provinces allied with the northern government, then under the control of the Anfu party.

John Dewey - China, Japan and the U.S.A. : Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference

Civil strife for the expulsion of the outsiders was already going on, continually gaining headway, and a few months later the Kwangsei troops were defeated and expelled from the province by the forces of General Chen, now the civil governor of Kwantung, who received a triumphal ovation upon his entrance into Canton.

John Dewey - China, Japan and the U.S.A. : Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference

Fighting has already, indeed, begun, but the Kwangsei militarists are badly in need of money; if Peking ratifies the contract, a large part of the funds will be paid over to them all that isn't lost by the wayside to the northern militarists.

John Dewey - China, Japan and the U.S.A. : Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference

The crowd that signed the contract is still in control of the neighboring province of Kwangsei and they are relied upon by the north to effect the military subjugation of the seceded province.

John Dewey - China, Japan and the U.S.A. : Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference