Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Liu Chen-hua (1883)

General Liu Chen-hua

劉鎮華字雪亞

General Liu Chen-hua was born at Kung Hsien, Honan province, in 1883, and was a Shiu-tsai or licentiate being graduated from the Peking Law College. General Liu took an active part in the First Revolution, having under his command a brigade of soldiers stationed at the boundary between Shensi and Honan. After the establishment of the Republic, Yuan Shih-kai took great interest in General Liu and had his troops re-organized under the name of Chen Sung Chun. These troops were very soon engaged in suppressing the bandits which were then thickly infesting the province of Honan. In 1913 General Liu was made a Major General and in 1914 was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General. Subsequently he was granted the Third Order of Merit. In 1917 General Liu with his troops was sent to Shensi to maintain order which had been disturbed by banditry. He was still commanding officer of the Chen Sung Chun. In October 1920 General Liu was granted the First Class Wenfu and in December 1920 the Second Class Tashou Chiaho. In March 1922 he was given the brevet rank of full General. In May 1922 he was appointed to act concurrently as Military Governor of Shensi. General Liu carried out this mission to the satisfaction of the Central government, which appointed him Civil Governor. In 1922 he was given the brevet rank of a full General. In May 1922 he was appointed to act concurrently as Military Governor of Shensi. In July 1922 he was made “Fou-Wei Chiangchun," a member of the College of Marshals. In October 1922, he was granted the First Class Tashou Paokuang Chiaho, and in December 1923 he was made a Full General. General Liu is still the Civil Governor and the Acting Military Governor of Shensi.