Yang Hu-cheng (English: Yang Hu-cheng)

Japanese: 楊虎城 - ようこじょう（英語表記）Yang Hu-cheng

[Live] Guangxu 19 (1893). Shaanxi, Pacheng
Died September 17, 1949. A Chinese soldier in Chongqing. He graduated from the Shaanxi Military Academy and participated in the Xinhai Revolution. In 1917, he became the commander of the 5th Route of the Yasukuni Army. He served under Feng Yuxiang for many years afterwards. He supported Feng Yuxiang during the Northern Expedition, and in 1929, when Feng Yuxiang and others launched the Anti-Chiang War, he declared his submission to the Kuomintang Central Committee. He served as the Chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Government from 1931 to 1932. When Zhang Xueliang was transferred to Xi'an in 1935, he supported Zhang's call for an end to the civil war and unity in the resistance against Japan, and in December 1936, together with Zhang, he started the Xi'an Incident, imprisoned Chiang Kai-shek, and jointly sent out a nationwide telegram calling for an end to the civil war, the release of patriotic leaders, and the reorganization of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, among other eight points. After the Xi'an Incident, he left China, but immediately after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, he returned to China to fight against Japan, was arrested and imprisoned, and was executed in a prison in Chongqing in September 1949.

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Japanese:

[生]光緒19(1893).陝西，蒲城
[没]1949.9.17. 重慶
中国の軍人。陝西講武堂を卒業し，辛亥革命に参加。 1917年靖国軍第5路司令となった。その後長く馮玉祥の麾下にあった。北伐に際してはこれを支援し，29年馮玉祥らの反蒋戦争の際は国民党中央に服従を表明。 31～32年陝西省政府主席。 35年張学良が西安に移駐すると，張の内戦停止，一致抗日の主張に賛成して，36年 12月張とともに西安事件を起し蒋介石を監禁して，張と連名で内戦停止，愛国的指導者の釈放，南京国民政府の改組などの8項目の主張を全国に通電した。西安事件後，中国を離れたが，日中戦争勃発直後，抗日のため帰国し，逮捕投獄され，49年9月重慶の監獄で処刑された。

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