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Xu Yongchang (15 December 188512 July 1959) (Hsu Yung-chang; ; style name: Cichen (Tzu-chen)) was the Minister of Board of Military Operations of the Republic of China between December 22, 1948, and April 22, 1949, and the representative of the Republic of China on September 2, 1945, at the signing of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan that ended

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. Xu Yongchang graduated from the Beijing Military Institute and later became the General Commander of the 3rd Army under Feng Yü-hsiang and the 20th Route Jin Army under

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. He was the Chairman of Shanxi province at the time of Mukden Incident, and served in the National Revolutionary Army as the Chief Operations Supreme Staff. After the

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, he was the president of the Beijing Military Institute and the Minister of Defence. He represented China at the

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. He went to

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after the

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, served as a senior advisor to the Office of the

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and a member of Central Review Committee, and died in 1959. Xu Yongchang's diary was published by the Academia Sinica's Institute of Modern History in 1989.

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Pictures of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan
*https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/13/archives/hsu-yung-chang-70-i-chinese-army-aidei.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Xu, Yongchang Politicians of Taiwan Senior Advisors to President Chiang Kai-shek Republic of China politicians from Shanxi 1880s births 1959 deaths Politicians from Xinzhou Chinese military personnel of World War II Chinese Civil War refugees Taiwanese people from Shanxi

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