Deng Baoshan () (1894 – November 27, 1968) was a
People's Republic of China
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politician. He was born in
Tianshui
Tianshui is the second-largest cities in Gansu, city in Gansu list of Chinese provinces, Province, China. The city is located in the southeast of the province, along the upper reaches of the Wei River and at the boundary of the Loess Plateau and ...
,
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
Province. He was commander of the
New 1st Army
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. During the
Xi'an Incident
The Xi'an Incident, previously romanized as the Sian Incident, was a political crisis that took place in Xi'an, Shaanxi in 1936. Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Nationalist government of China, was detained by his subordinate generals Chang Hs ...
of 1936, he supported
Zhang Xueliang
Chang Hsüeh-liang (, June 3, 1901 – October 15, 2001), also romanized as Zhang Xueliang, nicknamed the "Young Marshal" (少帥), known in his later life as Peter H. L. Chang, was the effective ruler of Northeast China and much of northern ...
and
Yang Hucheng. He was the 2nd governor of his home province after the creation of the People's Republic.
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1894 births
1968 deaths
People's Republic of China politicians from Gansu
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Gansu
Governors of Gansu
People from Tianshui
Victims of the Cultural Revolution