Zhang Xueliang President

Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsueh-liang (3 June 1901 in Haicheng County – 14 October 2001 in Honolulu, Hawaii), occasionally called Peter Hsueh Liang Chang and nicknamed the "Young Marshal" (少帥), was the effective ruler of northeast China and much of northern China after the assassination of his father, Zhang Zuolin, by the Japanese on 4 June 1928. As an instigator of the Xi'an Incident, he spent over fifty years under house arrest and is regarded by the People's Republic of China as a patriotic hero.

Personal facts

Zhang Xueliang
Birth dateJune 03, 1901
Birth place
Qing dynasty , Liaoning , Haicheng Liaoning
Date of deathOctober 15, 2001
Place of death
Hawaii , Honolulu , United States

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Politician

military operations
Mukden Incident
Central Plains War
Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)
Battle of Rehe
military rank
General of the Army
party
Fengtian clique
relation
service start1915
service end1936

Zhang Xueliang on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/zhangII.html
  2. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/world/zhang-xueliang-100-dies-warlord-and-hero-of-china.html