Suiyuan

alternative Sui-yuan

1. historicalA former province of China, now part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

   Middle peasants had also suffered misclassification in the administrative village of Tsaichiaai in Hsing County of the Shansi-Suiyüan liberated area.

   [1980, F. Gilbert Chan, editor, China at the Crossroads: Nationalists and Communists, 1927-1949, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 233

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   In the first instance, then, the Inner Mongolian princes of Chahar and Suiyuan turned a deaf ear to the blandishments of Japan’s agents. Instead they made capital of Japanese pressure by seeking political concessions at Nanking.

   1938, T. A. Bisson, Japan in China, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 62

   The critical state of military affairs has increased the importance of Peiping as the government’s headquarters in north China. Not long ago, General Fu Tso-yi was appointed Commander of a new North China Communist Suppression Headquarters, with its center here, to direct and control all military operations in the provinces of Jehol, Chahar, Suiyuan, Hopeh, and part of Shansi.

   1963, A. Doak Barnett, China on the Eve of Communist Takeover, Frederick A. Praeger, page 28

   Chang’s requests that at least a part of his forces be sent to counter the Japanese in the threatened province of Suiyuan were adamantly refused. Even these direct orders, however, failed to put Chang and Yang in the field against the CCP during November; and on December 4, Chiang returned to Sian, to replace Chang if he could not command him to act.

   1967, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Enemies and Friends: The United Front in Chinese Communist history, Stanford University Press, page 72