People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Military command 1
Affiliation

Most people

Any Beiyang government and warlords 1

All 1 affiliations

China

Beiyang government and warlords 1
Position(set)
Any Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Liberalism and republicanism 1 Monarchy and royalism 2 Nationalism 1
Citizenship
Any China 1
Background
Any China 1
Era(set)
Any

People of the Soviet Union

The old regime and its challengers1905–1917 2 The revolutionary generation1917–1940 2

People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic

The old regime and the Nationalists1894–1949 1 The Chinese revolutionary generation1911–1949 1

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 29 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 4
Nationalism The old regime and the Nationalists 1894–1949 Clear all

Zhang Xueliang

张学良
Beiyang government and warlords Nationalism China China 1901–2001 ↓ Arrested 1936 · natural causes

The “Young Marshal” who detained Chiang Kai-shek at Xi’an and opened the way to the second united front

In December 1936 he detained Chiang Kai-shek at Xi'an, forcing the Second United Front against Japan, and paid for it with more than fifty years under house arrest.

Son of the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin, he inherited the Northeast when the Japanese killed his father in 1928 and pledged allegiance to Nanjing that year. Driven from Manchuria in 1931, he was sent against the Communists, but in December 1936 he and Yang Hucheng seized Chiang Kai-shek at Xi’an to demand an end to civil war and resistance to Japan. Zhou Enlai brokered the release; Zhang flew back with Chiang and spent more than fifty years under house arrest. Freed in the 1990s, he died in Hawaii at 100.

Career timeline
  • 1928–1931Commander of the Northeastern Army
  • 1936.12Instigator of the Xi’an Incident