Chou Pao-chung (1902-22 February 1964), Communist general, was best known as a guerrilla leader in Manchuria from 1932 to 1945. Born in Tali, Yunnan, Chou Pao-chung belonged to the ethnic minority in Yunnan known as the Pai or Min-chia. The youngest son of a shoemaker father and a peasant mother, he completed primary school, but […]

Sheng Shih-ts'ai (1895-), military adventurer from Manchuria who seized power in Sinkiang in 1933 and ruled that province for nine years with Soviet aid. In 1943 he switched allegiance to the Chinese Nationalists, who, however, dislodged him from his seat of power in 1944. The Kaiyuan district of Liaoning in southern Manchuria was the birthplace […]