Chen Jitang (1890-1954) Born in 1890, in Fangcheng, Guangxi, China. He joined the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance in 1908 and began serving in the Guangdong Army in 1920, rising from battalion to brigade commander. He was designated commander of the 11th Division within the 4th Army in 1925 and took up the garrison of Qinzhou city, Guangxi, in 1926, thus staying in the south during the Northern Expedition. Fangchenggang (simplified Chinese: 防城港; pinyin: fangchenggang) is a prefecture-level city in Chinas Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. ... Guangxi (Zhuang: Gvangjsih; old orthography: ; Simplified Chinese: 广西; Traditional Chinese: 廣西; Pinyin: Guǎngxī; Wade-Giles: Kuang-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangsi), full name Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Zhuang: Gvangjsih Bouxcuengh Swcigih; old orthography: ; Simplified Chinese: 广西壮族自治区; Traditional Chinese: 廣西壯族自治區; Pinyin: Guǎngxī Zhuàngzú Zìzhìqū) is a Zhuang autonomous region of... China, and should not be confused with the former Kwantung Leased Territory in north-eastern China. ... Qinzhou (Chin-chow, Yamchow) is a city with more than 100 000 inhabitants on the Gulf of Tongking in Guangxi in the Peoples Republic of China. ...

Becoming chairman of the government of Guangdong in 1931, he turned against Chiang Kai-shek in the south in 1931 and allied with Guangxi army commanders; another civil war might have broken out as a result if there had been no September 18 Incident in Shenyang, which reminded all sides of the necessity to unite. Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887–April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the 1925 death of Sun Yat-sen. ... It has been suggested that Manchuria Incident be merged into this article or section. ... Shenyang (Simplified Chinese: , Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Shěnyáng, Manchu: Mukden) is the capital city of Liaoning province in Northeast China. ...

During World War II, he was a member of the National Government, Supreme National Defense Commission, and Strategic Commission, also taking up the agriculture and forestry ministry of the cabinet. He was named governor of Hainan island (within Guangdong province) after the war. He fled to Taiwan in April 1950, when Hainan came under Communist control, and was named a "Strategic Adviser of the President." He died on November 3rd, 1954, in Taiwan. Hainan (Chinese: 海南; Hanyu Pinyin: ) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located at the southern end of the country. ...