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Zhang Xueliang - Encyclopedia.com Zhang Xueliang's rise and fall are closely linked... Zhang Xueliang was born in 1901, but it was his... One of its chief supporters was Zhang Xueliang who, despite his obedience to... www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-ZhangXue.html   (754 words)

Zhang (surname) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is believed that the ancestors of Zhang's wore archers and the bow as a totem of their tribe. Zhang had also been a surname by which Manchus and Mongolians chose to sinicize their names since the beginning of the Republic (1912). Zhang Yi, military general of the Kingdom of Shu during the period of Three Kingdoms. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zhang   (737 words)

Zhang Xue-liang Zhang Xueliang (張學良), or Chang Hsüeh-liang in Wade-Giles (written as Chang Hsueh-liang on computers without diacritic capability and in English as Peter H.L. Chang), (June 3, 1901 - October 15, 2001), became effective ruler of Manchuria after the assassination of his father Zhang Zuolin[?] on June 4, 1928 by the Japanese. The Japanese were concerned that Manchuria would declare support for Chiang Kaishek and believed that his son Zhang Xueliang, who was an opium addict, would be much more subject to Japanese influence. Zhang is today largely considered a patriotic hero because at considerable danger to himself he forced his own government to fight against the invaders. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/zh/Zhang_Xueliang.html   (387 words)

Japan in Their Own Words His father Zhang Zuolin had been blasted to death by the Japanese army, and he was forced to flee his homeland and ruling territory in Dongbei after the Manchurian Incident, also known as the September 18 Incident. Zhang, who at 30 was the effective ruler of Manchuria and Northern China, was attired in a shirt and dress coat, and spent the evening irritably puffing at his cigarette and looking around at the audience. Murakami observed in Zhang that night 'that peculiar sullenness displayed by the clown that is the husband at the end of a quarrel between a married couple.' www.esuj.gr.jp /jitow/eng/contents/jitow_0041.htm   (686 words)

News & Events - Birthday Celebration for General Zhang Xueliang(06/2/2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Zhang Xueliang, born on June 3, 1901 on a horse-drawn carriage in northeast China's Liaoning Province, is now living in Hawaii in the United States with his wife Zhao Yidi. Zhang was instrumental in arresting Chiang Kai-shek, enemy of the Communist Party of China, during the famous Xi'an Incident in the 1930s. Zhang and General Yang Hucheng arrested Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Kuomintang, and tried to force him to stop the civil war and turn to fighting against the Japanese invaders, on December 12, 1936. www.chinahouston.org /news/2000601202438.html   (269 words)

[No title] In his youth, Zhang Xueliang played a prominent role in Chinas political development and lived the life of a patriotic playboy, but for his last 37 years he was a devoted soldier of the Lord Jesus Christ. Zhang was born in Haicheng, Liaoning on June 2, 1900. Zhang achieved his political aim, but in the aftermath he was placed under house arrest, first in the mainland and after 1949 in Taiwan. www.prayforchina.com /pro_zhang_xueliang_e.htm   (629 words)

Birthday Celebration for General Zhang Xueliang Zhang Xueliang, born on June 3, 1901 on a horse-drawn carriage in northeast China's Liaoning Province, is now living in Hawaii in the United States with his wife Zhao Yidi. Zhang was instrumental in arresting Chiang Kai-shek, enemy of the Communist Party of China, during the famous Xi'an Incident in the 1930s. Zhang and General Yang Hucheng arrested Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Kuomintang, and tried to force him to stop the civil war and turn to fighting against the Japanese invaders, on December 12, 1936. english.people.com.cn /english/200006/02/eng20000602_42116.html   (296 words)

Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Zhang Xueliang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsüeh-liang (張學良, pinyin: Zhāng Xuéliáng, English: Peter Hsueh Liang Chang) (June 3, 1901 – October 15, 2001), nicknamed the "Young Marshal" (少帥), became the effective ruler of Manchuria and much of Northeast China after the assassination of his father Chang Tso-lin on June 4, 1928 by the Japanese. Zhang also tried to eliminate Soviet influence from Manchuria, but relented in the face of a Soviet military build-up. In the Xi'an incident (December 12, 1936), Zhang and another general Yang Hucheng kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek and imprisoned the head of the Nationalist government until he agreed to form a united front with the communists against the Japanese invasion. www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Zhang_Xueliang   (784 words)

Did Zhang Xueliang do the right thing? zhang xueliang did a dumb thing according to some people, saying that chiang was already thinking of working with the ccp b4 zhang held him hostage in xi'an. At that time Zhang was already married and her behavior may have been seen as scandalous given the standards at the time. Zhang's first wife at that time lived in the US and recognized that Edith's love and caring for him was genuine. www.chinese-forums.com /showthread.php?t=1259&page=2&pp=10   (1387 words)

News & Events - Centenary celebrations for general Zhang Xueliang (04/23/2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Zhang was instrumental in arresting the Communist Party of China's rival Chiang Kai-shek in the 1930s. According to the China-based Zhang Xueliang Foundation, this is the first time that people from the mainland, Taiwan region and the United States will hold a celebration for the general, who resides in Hawaii with his wife. Zhang and General Yang Hucheng arrested Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Kuomintang, in the famous Xi'an Incident on December 12, 1936. www.chinahouston.org /news/2000423113419.html   (150 words)

Zhang Xueliang 2001 Deaths — Infoplease.com Zhang released Chiang two weeks later, when he agreed to end the civil war against the Communists and instead unite with them to fight Japanese invaders. Zhang spent 55 years in house arrest in mainly Taiwan. Zhang Xueliang - Zhang Xueliang: Zhang Xueliang: see Chang Hsüeh-liang. www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0886125.html   (150 words)

Information Channel Zhang Xueliang who is the son of Zhangzuolin,a head of Fengxi(a area of Liaoning Province) warlord, became effective ruler of Manchuria after the assassination of his father by the Japanese. The Japanese were concerned that it would declare support for Chiang Kaishek,the leader of Kuomintang Government, and believed that Zhang Xueliang who was an opium adict would be much more subject to Japanese influence. Zhang spent half a century in house arrest for his role in the Xian incident, and followed Chiang to Taiwan where he remained non-political and spent his time studing Ming dynasty poetry. en.chinabroadcast.cn /739/2003-9-4/65@40412.htm   (356 words)

BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Tribute for Chinese hero One of the regional warlord generals who dominated Chinese politics in the 1920s and 30s, Zhang Xueliang secured his place in history in 1936, when he arrested his boss, China's then nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, and forced him to form an alliance with the communists against the Japanese. When news of the death of Zhang Xueliang reached China from Hawaii, Chinese President Jiang Zemin was quick to praise him as a "great patriot". Zhang Xueliang was not freed until some four decades later when martial law was finally lifted in Taiwan. news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1602000/1602017.stm   (409 words)

WW2DB: Xueliang Zhang At the same time, Japan would seek out for Zhang Xueliang, son of a recently assassinated warlord governor of Manchuria (it is interesting to note that Zhang's father was assassinated by the Japanese military). Zhang was an opium addict, and Japan thought he would easily be manipulated as a puppet. Zhang Xueliang led his men in support of Chiang, fighting against the warlords. ww2db.com /person_bio.php?person_id=69   (490 words)

Did Zhang Xueliang do the right thing? Zhang Xueliang, known as the Young Marshal who kidnapped Chiang Kaishek (Jiang Jieshi) at Xian in 1936, changed the course of Chinese history with his action. The Japanese hoped that Zhang Xueliang would be a much easier puppet to use for their causes. Zhang Xueliang rallied his Manchurian troops to Chiang Kaishek's side and was firstmost concerned about the Japanese. www.chinese-forums.com /showthread.php?p=10672&mode=threaded   (2077 words)

CPPCC Mourns Death of Great Patriot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Together with General Yang Hucheng, General Zhang Xueliang detained Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the then Kuomintang regime, on December 12, 1936, and demanded that the Kuomintang stop fighting the Communist Party and the two parties get united to fight against Japanese aggressors. The message also praised Zhang for his persistent patriotism and concern for the reunification of the motherland and the prosperity of the nation. According to documentary records, Zhang was put under house arrest by the Kuomintang regime after the Xi'an Incident, and then taken to Taiwan in 1949, when the Kuomintang regime was toppled by the CPC-led revolution and fled to the island province. www.china.com.cn /english/2001/Oct/20510.htm   (207 words)

RESISTANCE WARS -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China Zhang Xueliang, who was shooting pictures at Manchuria sports contest in Oct 1930, would soon see his hometown abandoned to the Japanese. Zhang Xueliang's oral recitals confirmed the suspicion that it was Zhang Xueliang himself, with an understanding that Chiang Kai-shek would not assist him as promised in 1928 at the time of Manchuria unification with China proper, had decided to preserve his forces rather than fighting the Japanese on his own. Zhang Xueliang, in his recollections, had acknowledged his misjudgment by likening Japan's invasion of Manchuria to either Nanking Bloody Incident or Jinan Incident, i.e., two international incidents that had limited damages. www.uglychinese.org /war.htm   (12345 words)

DBLP: Xueliang Li Xueliang Li, Victor Neumann-Lara, Eduardo Rivera-Campo: Two Approaches for the Generalization of Leaf Edge Exchange Graphs on Spanning Trees to Connected Spanning k-Edge Subgraphs of a Graph. Hajo Broersma, Xueliang Li: The connectivity of the leaf-exchange spanning tree graph of a graph. Xueliang Li, Fuji Zhang: Hamiltonicity of a Type of Interchange Graphs. www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/l/Li:Xueliang.html   (409 words)

Japan and Emperor Hirohito to 1936 They were aware of the military weakness of China's army in Manchuria - the army of Zhang Xueliang (son and successor of the murdered warlord, Zhang Zuolin). Chiang Kai-shek responded by ordering Zhang Xueliang to stop the Japanese advance, but Zhang Xueliang's demoralized army made no determined stand, and the Japanese army's advance dismayed members of Chiang's government. The Japanese overran the cities of Chinchow on December 28, and, advancing along the coast, on January 4, 1932, it reached the town of Shanhaikwan, where the Great Wall meets the sea. fsmitha.com /h2/ch18.htm   (4647 words)

Today in Asian History: October 14 ... Zhang's father was the well-known north-eastern Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin (1873-1928). Zhang Zuolin dominated Beijing after 1924, but was fatally injured when Japanese troops blew-up his train in 1928. In December 1936, Zhang and General Yang Hucheng kidnapped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (the leader of Nationalist China) from Xi'an and held him prisoner until he agreed to turn his attention from the Nationalist - Communist civil war to resisting continuing Japanese encroachment on Chinese territory. www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/thisweek/10-14.htm   (292 words)

Oral History Zhang Materials Synopsis A second major theme consists of General Zhang's relations with his family,especially with his father before the latter's assassination in 1928 and the history of Manchuria in the early part of this century. A third theme consists of Zhang's relations with other Chinese warlords in the period leading up to the Xian Incident and of course his relations with the Chinese Communist Party, Chiang kai-shek and the Nationalist Party before and after the Xian Incident. A fourth major theme consists of discussions of Zhang's personal political, philosophical and religious beliefs and his education and how these were affected by his trip to Europe as a young man. It also covers his later years under house arrest and how they influenced his written work. www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/oral/zhangII.html   (663 words)

Noteworthy People in Tianjin Zhang's artistry has been handed down to descendants from generation to generation. Zhang Xiangwen, a native of Siyang county, Jiangsu, was a leading educational reformer and scholar in the geosciences. In the same year, Zhang founded the Chinese society for Earth Sciences (Di xue hui) in the First Hebei Mengyang Academy, Tianjin, and is elected its chairman (which he remains - with only a one-year interruption - until 1932). wason.library.cornell.edu /Tianjin/noteworthy.html   (3288 words)

“Eyeglasses Cheng” descendent Cheng Yougong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) He was an orderly in Zhang Xueliang’s army.) When we arrived to see him, he became very excited and his eyes filled with tears. For a time he taught Zhang Xueliang’s army and he also held positions in the armies of Li Jinglin and Wang Yizhe. Zhang Xueliang’s army initiated the ban on opium trade, and called on practicing the martial arts to strengthen the body. users2.ev1.net /~stma/CYG2.htm   (1264 words)

WARS & CAMPAIGNS 1927-1937 -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China Zhang Zuolin adopted a concerted efforts for two purposes: clearing the threat of communist insurgency in northern China as well as sending a message of cooperation to Chiang Kai-shek. On Dec 31st 1928, Chiang Kai-shek conferred the "Manchuria border commander-in-chief" onto Zhang Xueliang, and further ceded Rehe Province to be under the jurisdiction of Manchuria. Zhang Guotao withdrew from Macheng for a relocation to Huang'an in the west. www.uglychinese.org /campaign.htm   (13636 words)

NEN-English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) A short play about how the fifth wife of General Zhang Zuolin dealt with the wife of the Japanese consul is praticed by the working staff of Marshal Zhang's Mansion at one wing of the building. Located south to the Imperial Palace in Shenhe District, Marshal Zhang's Mansion is a rectangle yard. Covering an area of 22,000 square meters, it was once the official residence and private house of Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the Northeast Army, and General Zhang Xueliang. www.liaoning-gateway.com /74598616949325824/20051117/1794686.shtml   (204 words)

Brain Fertilizer: China My name-dropping of Zhang Xueliang isn't any attempt to trump your opinion...I just thought it was pretty cool and figured there'd be a fair chance you'd recognize the name. In some ways, I think this is a persepectual thing: chance and the very human tendency to generalize on the basis of few clues leave indelible perceptions that tend to be reinforced by what we believe to be true. That girl was so ignorant, even though she was now an American citizen, and a teacher we both knew was an American citizen, she hated him simply because he was from the Mainland. brain.mu.nu /archives/043860.php   (2364 words)

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