Zhang Xueliang

Zhang Xueliang

▪ Chinese warlord
Wade-Giles romanization  Chang Hsüeh-liang , courtesy name  Hanqing , byname  Shaoshuai (“Young Marshal”) 
born June 3, 1901, Haicheng, Liaoning province, China
died October 14, 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.

      Chinese warlord who, together with Yang Hucheng, in the Xi'an Incident (1936), compelled the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) to form a wartime alliance with the Chinese communists against Japan.

      Zhang Xueliang was the oldest son of the warlord Zhang Zuolin, who dominated Manchuria (now Northeast China) and parts of North China. The younger Zhang was prepared for a military career and joined his father's army at age 20. Rising swiftly through the ranks, he was promoted to the command of one of his father's armies in 1922. Upon Zhang Zuolin's murder by Japanese officers in 1928, Zhang Xueliang assumed control of Manchuria and, ignoring both the warnings and the growing power of the Japanese in Manchuria, aligned himself with the newly formed Nationalist (Nationalist Party) government at Nanjing (Nanking). The Japanese then drove his forces from Manchuria and occupied the region; Zhang withdrew his troops into Shaanxi province in northwestern China.

      It was in Shaanxi in 1935–36 that Chiang Kai-shek used Zhang's troops in his military campaigns against the Chinese communists based in nearby Yan'an. However, the increasingly patriotic Zhang became convinced that his military units and those of the Nationalists should be fighting the Japanese invaders, not their fellow Chinese. When Chiang Kai-shek came to Zhang Xueliang's headquarters at Xi'an in Shaanxi in 1936 to take personal charge of the Nationalist war against the Chinese communists, Zhang arrested the Nationalist leader. He released him only when Chiang Kai-shek agreed to form a United Front with the Chinese communists against the Japanese. Unwisely returning to Nanjing with Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang was soon placed under house arrest. When Chiang's government fled to Taiwan in 1948, Zhang was taken there and continued to be kept under house arrest. Although the government reportedly lifted house arrest in the early 1960s, Zhang remained at his home near Taipei until 1991, when he traveled to the United States. In 1994 he settled in Hawaii.

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