Huang Yiguang ( zh, t=黃逸光, s=黄逸光, p=Huáng Yìguāng) was a
Mexican
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** People
*** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants
*** Mexica, ancient indigenous people ...
-born
Chinese
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* Something related to China
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politician, aviator, and explorer. He was born into a well-connected and wealthy family in Mexico and served as a pilot in the Chinese air force during World War II.
He took part in one of a number of assassination attempts on the life of the Chinese politician
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 ...
, who
collaborated with Japan during their
occupation of China from 1937 to 1945.
An aviator and explorer, he travelled widely with strong connections with the
Chinese community in the United Kingdom
British Chinese (also known as Chinese British or Chinese Britons) are people of Chineseparticularly Han Chineseancestry who reside in the United Kingdom, constituting the second-largest group of Overseas Chinese in Western Europe after France. ...
. A former associate of Wang, he was welcomed in Wang's inner circle, but his assassination attempt failed when his radio equipment was discovered. He was executed by the
Empire of Japan
The also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was a historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the post-World War II 1947 constitution and subsequent fo ...
on 17 December 1940.
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1940 deaths
Year of birth unknown
1940 crimes in China
Chinese people of World War II
Executed Republic of China people
20th-century executions by Japan
Executed failed assassins
Chinese aviators
Chinese explorers
Chinese expatriates in the United Kingdom
Mexican people of Chinese descent
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