Bai Chongxi (18 March 1893 - 1 December 1966; simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: B醝 Ch髇gxi; Wade-Giles: Pai Ch'ung-hsi); 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.

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. He was the Minister of National Defense of the Republic of China from 1946 to 1948. After losing to the Communists in 1949; Bai fled to Taiwan; where he died in 1966. Pictures From History

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