Chang Shih-cheng was one of the leaders who rose in China toward the end of the Yuan Dynasty. He was born in Taichou, Chiang-su province, which has been always a center of salf industry. Being a member of the crewman of a salt-carrying ship, he carried on an illegal trafic in salt. In 1353, chang formed a rebel army with his comrades, and captured Kao-yu 高郵, Chiang-su province, and the following year he called himself king. In 1356 he captured P'ing-chiang 平江 (Soochow), removed there, and established a kingdom organization. Although he and his men surrendered themselves to the Yuan Government in the following year, in practice they remained as an independent local administrative body. The territory of this administrative body was a wide plain covering both the Chiang-su province and the northern part of Che-chiang province. After removing to P'ing-ching, the administrative body was always in a state of conflict with Chu Yuan-chang 朱元璋. At last in 1367 Chang's army was annihilated by Chu Yuan-chang who afterwards set up the Ming Dynasty. Thus Chu Yuanchang's movement to the unification of China developed further. In this article, the writer describes about the rise and fall of Chang's administration, together with some historical facts concerning the Chang's administration mentioned above.

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