An excellent Chinese medal of the KMT; this award is known as the "red's loyalty to the KMT medal". This medal honors the northern Chinese warlord Wu Pei-fu (1874-1939), who encouraged communist insurgents to remain loyal to the KMT Government, and was awarded to military officers and men who displayed merit in this cause. Keywords: People's Republic of China, People's Liberation Army, 吴佩孚This item is from the collection of William Jennings. This collection was assembled by Jennings’ parents, who lived in Tianjin, China (then known as Tientsin) in the 1930s. Jennings’ father, Harold Jennings, was a British naval engineer who had originally come to China in the late 1920s and ran a shipyard in Tianjin. His mother, Mary Bayley Jennings, was a nurse from Ohio who originally traveled to Tianjin in 1938. The Jennings were active in the expatriate community in China and throughout Asia, and traveled within Asia, to places such as Hong Kong and Kyoto, collecting art pieces while they went. William Jennings was born in 1939, and the family moved to the United States in 1941 to escape growing conflict in the region, taking their collection with them. Condition Good condition; some surface dirt.