Bao Wenyue ({{zh, t=鮑文樾, p=Bào Wényuè, w=Pao Wen-yüeh, 1892–1980) was a Chinese warlord and military officer who was the Minister of Military Affairs in the
Reorganized National Government of China
The Wang Jingwei regime or the Wang Ching-wei regime is the common name of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China ( zh , t = 中華民國國民政府 , p = Zhōnghuá Mínguó Guómín Zhèngfǔ ), the government of the pup ...
under
Wang Jingwei
Wang Jingwei (4 May 1883 – 10 November 1944), born as Wang Zhaoming and widely known by his pen name Jingwei, was a Chinese politician. He was initially a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang, leading a government in Wuhan in oppositi ...
, during the
Second Sino-Japanese War
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.
Biography
He was born in the
Liaoning Province
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in 1892, during the reign of the
Guangxu Emperor
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. Bao was a graduate of the Peking military institute. From 1931 to 1939 Bao was a member of the
Military Affairs Commission
The Military Affairs Commission (MAC) of the National Government, chaired by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, directed the command of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China.
...
of the
Republic of China
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. In 1939, he surrendered to the Japanese and was declared a traitor by the Nationalist government. In 1940 he was promoted to general by the collaborationist government under
Wang Jingwei
Wang Jingwei (4 May 1883 – 10 November 1944), born as Wang Zhaoming and widely known by his pen name Jingwei, was a Chinese politician. He was initially a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang, leading a government in Wuhan in oppositi ...
in
Nanjing
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and was made the war minister. After the capitulation of Japan in 1945, he was arrested by the Nationalists and sentenced to death the following year. However, the sentence was never carried out and he was instead sent to
Taiwan
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, where he lived in prison until his release in 1975. Bao died in 1980.
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1892 births
1980 deaths
Chinese collaborators with Imperial Japan
Kuomintang collaborators with Imperial Japan
Republic of China warlords from Liaoning
Politicians from Dandong
Taiwanese people from Liaoning
People convicted of treason