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Yang Kuiyi

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Yang Kuiyi
Born1885
Hubei Province, Qing Dynasty
Died1946
Nanjing, Republic of China
Allegiance Qing Dynasty
(1903–12)
Republic of China (1912–1949) Republic of China
(1912–39)
Nanjing Nationalist Government
(1940–45)
Service/branchNew Army
National Revolutionary Army
Years of service1903–45
RankGeneral
Battles/warsSecond Sino-Japanese War
Alma materImperial Japanese Army Academy

Yang Kuiyi (Chinese: 杨揆一; pinyin: Yáng Kuíyī; Wade–Giles: Yang K'ui-yi, 1885 – 1946) was a Chinese general of the Second Sino-Japanese War who became a high-ranking military official of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, a regime established by Imperial Japan.

Biography

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Yang Kuiyi was born in the Hubei Province during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor and joined the local New Army in 1903.[1] In 1912, he studied at the infantry department of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. Upon his return to Republic of China he held various administrative positions in his native Hubei Province since the early 1930s and also rose through the ranks of the National Revolutionary Army. In 1939, he defected to the side of Wang Jingwei and joined his new pro-Japanese regime, proclaimed in Nanjing. When the Reorganized National Government was formally inaugurated in 1940, he was made Chief of General Staff and a member of several government committees. In 1942, he was made governor of the Hubei province, with the provincial government being reorganized in 1943. In 1945, Yang was appointed to head the National Military Council, a post that he held for the rest of the war. He was executed in 1946.

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Literature

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  • Xu, Youchun. Dictionary of the People of the Republic (民国人物大辞典 増訂版). Hebei People's Publishing House, 2007. ISBN 978-7-202-03014-1.
  • Liu, Shou. Official Chronology of the Republic of China (民国職官年表). Zhonghua Book Company, 1995. ISBN 7-101-01320-1.


Military offices
Preceded by
Position established
Chief of General Staff
March 1940 – June 1942
Succeeded by
Ye Peng
(as Chief of Army Staff)
Political offices
Preceded by Governor of Hubei Province
June 1942 – March 1945
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chairman of the National Military Council
March 1945 – August 1945
Succeeded by
Position abolished