Zhang Fakui

Zhang Fakui before 1946

Zhang Fakui ( Chinese  張發奎  /  张发奎 , Pinyin Zhāng Fākuí , W.-G. Chang Fa-kuei ; * 1896 in Shixing County , Guangdong Province ; † April 19, 1980 in Hong Kong ) was a nationalist general in the National Revolutionary Army .

Zhang was the son of a Hakka family, joined the armed forces at the age of 15 and attended a military academy in Wuchang , where he graduated in 1916. In 1927 he took part in the northern campaign in which Chiang Kai-shek attempted to unite the politically divided China, where he began the campaign as a division commander and was promoted to commander of the 4th Army Corps of the National Revolutionary Army. In this capacity, Zhang participated in the Zhengzhou Conference in May 1927 , from which the collaboration between Feng Yuxiang and Chiang Kai-shek resulted. He sympathized with the left wing of the Kuomintang, led by Wang Jingwei , but in July 1927 he supported Chiang in the political cleansing against the Communists , in December he was involved in the suppression of the Guangzhou uprising . At the same time, however, he took part in several rebellions against Chiang Kai-shek, including allied in June 1930 with Li Zongren , Bai Chongxi and Feng Yuxiang in the "Movement to save China from Chiang's military dictatorship".

During the Second Sino-Japanese War , Zhang initially commanded the 8th Army Corps in the Battle of Shanghai , later stood in the field against the Japanese in the Battle of Wuhan and was then transferred to the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi . He stayed there until the surrender of Japan , with the supreme commander of the Chinese armed forces in southern China accepting the surrender of the Japanese.

In the final stages of the civil war , in March 1949, Zhang became commander in chief of the National Revolutionary Army, but resigned in June 1949 and settled in Hong Kong , where he founded several organizations that opposed Chiang Kai-shek. However , Zhang did not cooperate with the Communist Party ; he has never returned to mainland China since retiring .

Web links

Commons : Zhang Fakui  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Kuhn : The Republic of China from 1912 to 1937 - Draft for a political history of events . 3. Edition. Edition Forum, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 3-927943-25-8 , p. 389-399 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} James Z. Gao: Historical dictionary of modern China (1800-1949) . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-4930-3 , pp. 428 .
3. ↑ Jay Taylor: The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China . 1st edition. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03338-2 , pp. 89 .

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zhang is the family name here, Fakui is the first name.