Feng Yu-xiang (English name)

Japanese: 馮玉祥 - ふうぎょくしょう（英語表記）Feng Yu-xiang

[Birth] Guangxu 8(1882).11.6. Anhui
Died: September 1, 1948. A warlord and politician in Black Sea China. Also read as "Hyogyokusho". As a Christian, he was also called the Christian General. Graduated from Baoding Military Academy in the late Qing Dynasty, he first belonged to the Anhui faction and then the Zhili faction, and in 1922 was appointed as the Henan Commander-in-Chief. In 1924, during the Second Fengtian-Zhili War, he staged a coup against Wu Peifu of the Zhili faction (the Beijing Coup), left the Zhili faction, organized the National Army, and became the commander of the 1st Army and the commander-in-chief of the National Army. He strengthened his alliance with the Kuomintang and received assistance from the Soviet Union. He advanced from the northwest to North China in an attempt to overthrow the Fengtian faction, but was caught in a pincer attack by the Fengtian faction and failed, and in 1926 he announced his resignation and fled to Moscow. After returning to China, he joined the Kuomintang. As commander-in-chief of the Northwest National Army, he cooperated with the Northern Expedition, and from 1929 to 1930, he launched an anti-Chiang movement with Wang Jingwei and Yan Xishan, but failed and was expelled from the Kuomintang. After the outbreak of the Manchurian Incident in 1931, he rejoined the Kuomintang. During the War of Resistance against Japan, he supported allies against the Soviet Union and opposed the civil war after the war. In 1946, he traveled to the United States and made anti-Chiang statements. He died of an unknown fire on board a ship in the Black Sea while returning to China via the Soviet Union to attend the New Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in September 1948.

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Japanese:

[生]光緒8(1882).11.6. 安徽
[没]1948.9.1. 黒海
中国の軍閥，政治家。「ひょうぎょくしょう」とも読む。キリスト教信者だったので，クリスチャン・ゼネラルとも呼ばれた。清末に保定武備学堂を卒業し，最初は安徽派，次に直隷派に属し，1922年河南督軍に任命された。 24年第2次奉直戦争で直隷派の呉佩孚に対してクーデター (北京政変) を起して直隷派を離脱し，国民軍を組織してみずから国民軍第1軍司令兼全軍総司令になり，国民党との提携を強めてソ連の援助を受けた。西北から華北に進出して奉天派打倒をはかったが，奉天派と直隷派に挟撃されて失敗し，26年下野を声明してモスクワに亡命。帰国後国民党に入党。西北国民軍総司令として北伐に協力し，29～30年汪兆銘，閻錫山らとともに反蒋運動を起したが失敗して国民党から除名された。 31年の満州事変勃発後，国民党に復帰。抗日戦争中は連ソ抗日，戦後は内戦反対を主張し，46年渡米して反蒋声明を発表した。 48年9月の新政治協商会議に出席するためソ連経由で帰国の途中，黒海上の船中で原因不明の火災により死亡した。