Zang Shiyi

Zang Shiyi; Simplified Chinese: (臧式毅) or Wade-Giles: Tsang Shih-yi, (1885 - 1956), Chinese general who was Governor of Liaoning Province at the time of the invasion of Manchuria in 1932.

Biography

Zang was born in Shenyang county of Liaoning Province in 1885. He traveled to Japan, where he graduated from the cavalry school of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. On his return to China, he was appointed Chief of staff for the Kuomingtang Army in Jilin Province. Together with Yan Yuting, he subsequently became Chief of staff of the business administration section of the Kuomingtang Army headquarters in Nanjing. After the death of Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin, he became governor of Liaoning Province in 1930.

After the Mukden Incident, Zang initially refused to cooperate with the Japanese and was imprisoned. However, he later decided to defect, and was re-appointed governor of Liaoning Province (renamed Fengtien Province) on 16 December 1931. He was part of the North Eastern Administrative Committee or Self-Government Guiding Board that made plans for a new State of Manchukuo to be established in February 1932.

From 21 May 1935, Zang served as president of the Manchukuo Senate. He later served as Minister for Home Affairs, and was Emperor Puyi's choice to replace Zheng Xiaoxu as Prime Minister of Manchukuo, (although Zhang Jinghui was appointed instead at the insistence of the Japanese Kwantung Army). After the collapse of Manchukuo in August 1945 following the Soviet Red army invasion in Operation August Storm, he was captured and held in custody in Siberia. He was extradited to the People's Republic of China in 1950, where he later died in captivity at the Fushun War Criminals Management Centre.

References

*cite book
last = Rana
first = Mitter
year = 2000
title = The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China
publisher = University of California Press
id = ISBN 0520221117
*cite book
last = Yamamuro
first = Shinichi
year = 2005
title = Manchuria Under Japanese Domination
publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press
id = ISBN 0812239121

External links

* [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/PTO/IMTFE/IMTFE-5.html IMTFE Judgement: Japanese Aggression Against China]
* [http://rulers.org/chinprov.html Rulers: China Administrative divisions: Liaoning]
* [http://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=5051 Photo at World War II Database]