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

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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

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Biography

He was born in the

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in 1892, during the reign of the

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. Bao was a graduate of the Peking military institute. From 1931 to 1939 Bao was a member of the

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of the

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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

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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

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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