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Yen received his formal military training first in China and later at Japan's Imperial Military Academy . In Japan he became a member of Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary Alliance and following the 1911 uprisings he seized power in Shanxi Province.
Yen ruled the province until the Communists ousted him in 1949. Although Yen was known as the "Model Governor" for his enlightened policies, he was nonetheless a military dictator. In 1926, Yen pledged his loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek's new government, but in 1929 he joined Feng Yü-hsiang and Wang Ching-wei in their attempt to overthrow the Generallisimo. After a brief retirement in the early 1930s, Yen returned to power in Shanxi and undertook social and military reforms to counteract the spread of CommunismThis article is about communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, and as a popular movement. For issues regarding the organization of the communist movement, see the Communist party article. For issues regarding one-par in the province. He also supported Chang Hsüeh-liangZhang Xueliang or Chang Hsueh-liang (, pinyin: Zhng Xueliang, English: Peter Hsueh Liang Chang) ( June 3, 1901 October 15, 2001), nicknamed the "Young Marshall", became the effective ruler of Manchuria and much of Northeast China after the assassination o's seizure of Chiang Kai-shek in 1936 (see Xian Incident). During WWII, Yen effectively resisted Japanese attempts to seize Shanxi, and his troops (including thousands of Japanese) held out against the Communists until the fortress city of T'ai-yüan fell in April 1949. Yen fled (with the provincial treasury) to TaiwanFor the political entity commonly known as "Taiwan," see Republic of China. The island of Taiwan ( Traditional: , Simplified: , Pinyin: Taiwn, Wade-Giles: T'ai-wan, Taiwanese: Tai-oan) is located off the coast of China in the Pacific Ocean. It is also kno along with the rest of the ROC government.
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Yen Hsi-shan Yen Hsi-shan ROC politicians