caption serviceyears commands death_place death_date successor birth_place party nationality office battles birth_date term_start rank image article_title term_end name
liu wenhui 1928 -- 1949 chairman of xikang provincial government beijing 24 june 1976 liu kuo-kuang -rrb- xiang -lrb- warlord -rrb- he guoguang -lrb- ho dayi county , sichuan kuomintang han chinese governor of sichuan governor of xikang sino-tibetan war war , second sino-japanese war , chinese civil 1895 mar 1929 29 dec 1934 general liu wenhui.jpg liu wenhui
 21 dec 1934 9 dec 1949 liu wenhui 刘文辉
liu wenhui

liu wenhui -lrb- ; 1895 -- 24 june 1976 -rrb- was one of the warlords of sichuan province during china 's warlord era .
liu who rose to prominence in sichuan in the 1920s and 1930s , came from a peasant family .
at the beginning of his career , he was aligned with the kuomintang -lrb- kmt -rrb- , commanding the sichuan-xikang defence force from 1927 to 1929 .
the western part of sichuan province was then known as xikang .
bordering tibet , the region had a mixed population of tibetans and han chinese .
