Yang Kuiyi

Yang Kuiyi
Born	1885 Hubei Province, Qing Dynasty
Died	1946 Nanjing, Republic of China
Allegiance	Qing Dynasty (1903–12) Republic of China (1912–39) Nanjing Nationalist Government (1940–45)
Service/branch	New Army National Revolutionary Army
Years of service	1903–45
Rank	General
Battles/wars	Second Sino-Japanese War

Yang Kuiyi (Chinese: 杨揆一; pinyin: Yáng Kuíyī; Wade–Giles: Yang K'ui-yi, 1885 – 1946) was a Chinese general of the Second Sino-Japanese War who became a high-ranking military official of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, a regime established by Imperial Japan.

Biography

Yang Kuiyi was born in the Hubei Province during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor and joined the local New Army in 1903.^[1] In 1912, he studied at the infantry department of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. 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 and joined his new pro-Japanese regime, proclaimed in Nanjing. 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 Central Military Commission, a post that he held for the rest of the war. He was executed in 1946.

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