Chang Kuo-t'ao (1897-), one of the founders of the Chinese Communist movement, was an influential leader of the Chinese Communist party until 1938, when he defected to the National Government after coming into conflict with Mao Tse-tung. In the 1920's, Chang headed the China Trade Union Secretariat. In the early 1930's, he was one of […]
Yeh Chien-ying (1898- ), Chinese Communist general who served as chief of staff of the Communist military forces during and after the Sino-Japanese war. During the American mediation effort in 1946, he was chief Communist delegate at the Executive Headquarters in Peiping. From late 1949 until mid- 1954 he was based at Canton, and he […]
Yeh T'ing 葉挺 Orig. Yeh Hsi-p'ing 葉西平 T. Hsi-i 希夷 Yeh T'ing (1897-8 April 1946), Communist military commander who led the Independent Regiment attached to the Fourth Army on the Northern Expedition in 1926 and, with Ho Lung (q.v.), directed the Nanchang uprising of 1 August 1927. He commanded the New Fourth Army from 1938 […]
Yü Ta-wei (1899-), Western-educated scholar who served during the Sino-Japanese war as army ordnance director and vice minister of war. From 1946 to 1948 he was minister of communications. After serving in the Chinese embassy at Washington during the Korean war (1950-53), he was minister of national defense in Taiwan in 1954-64. Born into a […]
Yü Han-mou (1891-), Kwangtung Army commander and subordinate of Ch'en Chi-t'ang (q.v.) whose defection to the National Government in 1936 contributed to the avoidance of civil war between Canton and Nanking. In 1948 he served briefly as commander in chief of the Chinese land forces. Little is known about Yü Han-mou's family background or early […]
Yün Tai-ying (1895-April 1931), Marxist intellectual and leader of the Young China Association, the Socialist Youth League, and the Hupeh branch of the Chinese Communist party. A noted propagandist, he edited the Hsin Shu Pao [new Szechwan daily], the Chung-kuo ch'ing-nien [China youth], and the Hung-ch'i-pao [red flag]. Yün was executed at Nanking in 1931. […]
Hsueh Yueh (17 December 1896-), Nationalist military commander who was known for his pursuit of the Communist Long March forces in 1935 and for his brilliant defense of Changsha (1939; and Ch'angte (1943; against the Japanese. He served as governor of Hunan (1939-45) and Kwangtung (1949). Lochang hsien, Kwangtung, was the birthplace of Hsueh Yueh. […]
Yen Hsi-shan 閻錫山 T. Pai-ch'uan 百川 Yen Hsi-shan (1883- 24 May 1960), Shansi warlord and one of the outstanding political strategists of the republican period. In 1930 he joined with Feng Yü-hsiang (q.v.) in an unsuccessful northern coalition against Chiang Kai-shek. During the Sino-Japanese war, he served as commander in chief of the Second War […]
Yang Hu-ch'eng (1883-September 1949), governor (1931) and pacification commissioner (1932-36) of Shensi. He joined with Chang Hsueh-liang in precipitating the Sian Incident of December 1936. Yang was arrested in 1937, imprisoned for 11 years, and murdered in 1949. Little is known about Yang Hu-ch'eng's family background or early life except that he was born in […]
Yang Chieh (25 January 1889-19 September 1949), outstanding military strategist who headed the Chinese Army Staff" College from 1931 to 1935 and served as ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1940. Little is known about Yang Chieh's family background or early years except that he was born in Tali hsien, Yunnan, and that […]
