Governor of Shanxi Province Yan Xishan Paulownia Leaves Medal/山西省政府将桐葉章

Suspension

山西省政府将 - Governor of Shanxi Province

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三等 - 3rd class

桐葉章 - Paulownia Leaves Medal

 

Yan Xishan was a Chinese warlord who served in the government of the Republic of China. He effectively controlled the province of Shanxi from the 1911 Xinhai Revolution to the 1949 Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War. As the leader of a relatively small, poor, remote province, he survived the machinations of Yuan Shikai, the Warlord Era, the Nationalist Era, the Japanese invasion of China and the subsequent civil war, being forced from office only when the Nationalist armies with which he was aligned had completely lost control of the Chinese mainland, isolating Shanxi from any source of economic or military supply.​

 

Specimen with replaced central medallion.