  bai chongxi (18 march 1893 &ndash; 1 december 1966; ; ), also spelled pai chung-hsi, was a chinese general in the national revolutionary army of the republic of china (roc) and a prominent chinese nationalist muslim leader.listed general, city of sydney library, accessed july 2009 he was of hui ethnicity and of the muslim faith. from the mid-1920s to 1949, bai and his close ally li zongren ruled guangxi province as regional warlords with their own troops and considerable political autonomy. his relationship with chiang kai-shek was at various times rivalrous and cooperative. he and li zongren supported the anti-chiang warlord alliance in the central plains war in 1930, and then supported chiang in the second sino-japanese war and the chinese civil war. 
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