Xu Yongchang

Xu Yongchang

General Xu Yongchang (1889-1959) (zh-cpw|c=徐永昌|p=Xú Yǒngchāng|w=Hsu Yung-Ch'ang; also seen as Hsu Yung-Ch'ang; style name: Cichen) 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 signing of Instrument of Surrender of Japan that ended World War II.

Xu Yongchang graduated from the Beijing Military Institute and later became the General Commander of the 3th Army under Feng Yü-hsiang and the 20th Route Jin Army under Yen Hsi-shan. He was also 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 Second Sino-Japanese War, he was the president of the Beijing Military Institute and the Minister of Defence. He represented China at the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. He went to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War, served as a senior advisor to the President Office 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.

See also

* History of the Republic of China
* Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

External links

* [http://www.freedomdocuments.com/fithian.html Pictures of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan]
* [http://www.generals.dk/general/Hsu_Yung-Chang/_/China.html The Generals of WWII]


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