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Yuan Shuai
Yuan Shuai (元帥) was a Chinese military rank that corresponds to a marshal in other nations. It is given to distinguished generals during China's dynastic and republican periods. A higher level rank of Da Yuan Shuai (大元帥), which corresponds to a Generalissimo, also existed.
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Song Dynasty
Jin Dynasty
Republic of China
People's Republic of China
The rank was awarded to ten veteran generals of the People's Liberation Army in 1955. However, along with all other military ranks of the PLA, it was abolished in 1965 and was never restored. The recipients of the rank are:
- Zhu De
- Peng Dehuai
- Lin Biao
- Liu Bocheng
- He Long
- Chen Yi
- Luo Ronghuan
- Xu Xiangqian
- Nie Rongzhen
- Ye Jianying
External links
- http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/pla2.html
- http://english.pladaily.com.cn/special/figures/marmore.htm
- http://www.paulnoll.com/Korea/War/Chinese-Marshal-choices.html
Chinese Civil War Main events pre-1945 Main events post-1945 Specific articles - Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)
- Encirclement Campaigns (1930–1934)
- Chinese Soviet Republic (1931–1934)
- Long March (1934–1936)
- Xi'an Incident (1936)
- Second United Front (1937–1946)
Part of the Cold War
- Full-scale Civil War (1946–1949)
- Kuomintang Islamic Insurgency in China (1950–1958)
- Campaign at the China–Burma Border (1960-1961)
- First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1955)
- Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958)
- Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (1996)
- Pan-Blue visits to mainland China (2005-)
- Political status of Taiwan
- Legal status of Taiwan
- Chinese reunification
- Taiwan independence
- Cross-Strait relations
Primary participants
Categories:- Military ranks of the People's Republic of China
- Military history of China
- Marshals of China
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