Background
General Wang Tien-p’ei was born at Kishui, Jiangxi province in 1888, but he lived in Tienchu, Guizhou most of his life, so he considered himself to be a Guizhou man.
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Tien-p’ei Wang
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Mr. Wang began school life in Tienchu attending the Higher Primary School from which he went to the Ministry Primary School in Kweiyang and afterwards to the Military Middle School in Wuchang.
Career
After graduating at the Paoting Military Academy Mr. Wang was at Wuchang in 1911 at the time of the First Revolution and was for a time the commandant in charge of military operations in Hankow, Hanyang and Wuchang. He also commanded the forts at Feng Hwang Shan.
In 1912 General Wang was appointed Chief of the Secret Service in the cities of Kucho, Liping and Guizhou for the purpose of exterminating brigands. It was not till 1914, however, that his real career began. The Central Army headquarters gave him a commission in the Guizhou Army where he first served as a candidate in the First Regiment, afterwards he rose by degrees in his regiment till he became a Major after the fighting in Western Jiangxi in 1915.
In 1917 Mr. Wang was given charge of the Model Battalion in the Guizhou Army and for his zeal in fighting for the Constitution he was made Colonel of the Second Regiment in 1918. For the next two or three years he was fighting in several places in Sichuan and Guizhou and was raised to the rank of Brigadier in 1921, while engaged in Kwangsi. In 1922 he returned to Guizhou and was given the command of the First Guizhou Division. In 1923 he was given the additional rank of Commandant (under Yuan Tzu-ming) for the relief of Sichuan and pacification of Guizhou.
