Anti-Kuomintang Coalition

State · 1930–1931 CE · at its largest around 1930 CE

An alliance of northern militarists, chiefly Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang, with dissident Nationalists including Wang Jingwei, that challenged Chiang Kai-shek. Their defeat in the Central Plains War of 1930 consolidated Chiang's power.

On its lands while it lasted

• Portuguese settlement of Macau (c. 1557–1999 CE): Ming authorities allowed Portuguese traders to settle at Macau, which became Europe's longest-held outpost in East Asia.
• British Hong Kong (1841–1997 CE): Britain occupied Hong Kong Island in 1841 and ruled the colony, later enlarged, until 1997.
• 1931 China floods (1931 CE): Floods on the Yangtze and Huai rivers, among the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded.

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