The Former Residence of Huang Shaohong

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Three things you don't see in China very often are rifles, firing ranges, and Republic of China flags. Huang Shaohong was a Kuomintang delegate to the peace talks after the Chinese Civil War in 1949. He helped negotiate the peace treaty which was rejected by the Kuomintang leadership. He later joined the Communist Party, but was labeled a 'rightist' during the Cultural Revolution and ultimately committed suicide in 1966.

 

We visited his home near Rongxian in the Yulin prefecture.

 

See in Wikipedia - Huang Shaohong

 

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Huang Shaohong (1895 – August 31, 1966) was a warlord in Guangxi province and governed Guangxi as part of the New Guangxi Clique through the latter part of the Warlord era, and a leader in later years of the Republic of China.

 

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By the spring of 1924 the new Guangxi Clique had formed and created the Guangxi Pacification Army. Li Zongren was the Commander-in-Chief, Huang the deputy Commander and Bai Chongxi the Chief of Staff. By August they had defeated and driven former ruler Lu Rongting and other contenders out of the province and Huang became the civil governor of Guangxi from 1924-29. He was also interior and transportation minister in the National Government of Chiang Kai-shek after 1927.

 

 

 

 

 

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This is how we got there - the road south from Rongxian was like a Colorado mountain road along a stream

 

 

 

 

 

 

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