Ye Peng (, sometimes also transliterated Ye Feng, 1897–1947) was a

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who fought for the Republic of China and later became a key figure in the Nanjing Nationalist Government of

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Biography

Ye Peng entered the

Baoding Military Academy Baoding Military Academy or Paoting Military Academy () was a military academy based in Baoding, during the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China, in the first two decades of the 20th century. For a time, it was the most important milita ...

in 1917 and graduated in 1919 from its artillery department. He rose through the ranks of the National Revolutionary Army during the 1930s, holding various military posts. In 1939 he joined

and his pro-peace faction, being appointed to the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

central committee under his

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. Ye became the head of a training center in

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and was a member of the Central Military Commission. In 1941 he was appointed to command the 29th Army. In June 1942, he replaced Yang Kuiyi as Chief of General Staff. In April 1943, he became head of the Minister of Military Affairs. In 1945 Ye became governor of the

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. After the defeat of Japan in August of that year, he served under Chiang Kai-shek again briefly, commanding the 7th Army. On September 18, however, he was

executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

in Nanjing for the crime of hanjian.

Alma mater

Sources

Literature

* 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. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Ye, Peng 1897 births 1947 deaths Baoding Military Academy alumni Chinese people executed for collaboration with Japan Kuomintang collaborators with Imperial Japan National Revolutionary Army generals