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Yang Kuiyi (, 1885 – 1946) was a Chinese general of the
Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...
who became a high-ranking military official of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, a regime established by
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Biography

Yang Kuiyi was born in the
Hubei Province Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...
during the reign of the
Guangxu Emperor The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 1871 – 14 November 1908), personal name Zaitian, was the tenth Emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. His reign lasted from 1875 to 1908, but in practice he ruled, w ...
and joined the local
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in 1903.AxisHistory Forum
/ref> In 1912, he studied at the infantry department of the
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. Upon his return to Republic of China he held various administrative positions in his native Hubei Province since the early 1930s and also rose through the ranks of the National Revolutionary Army. In 1939, he defected to the side of
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 ...
and joined his new pro-Japanese
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, proclaimed in
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. When the Reorganized National Government was formally inaugurated in 1940, he was made Chief of General Staff and a member of several government committees. In 1942, he was made governor of the Hubei province, with the provincial government being reorganized in 1943. In 1945, Yang was appointed to head the National Military Council, a post that he held for the rest of the war. He was executed in 1946.


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*Xu, Youchun. ''Dictionary of the People of the Republic'' (民国人物大辞典 増訂版). Hebei People's Publishing House, 2007. . *Liu, Shou. ''Official Chronology of the Republic of China'' (民国職官年表). Zhonghua Book Company, 1995. . {{s-end 1885 births 1946 deaths Kuomintang collaborators with Imperial Japan Chinese people executed for collaboration with Japan National Revolutionary Army generals from Hubei Qing dynasty military personnel