Wang Jialie () (1893 – August 11, 1966) was Chairmen of the Guizhou government from November 1931 – May 1935. He continuously resisted Chiang Kai-shek's attempt to unify

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under his central government. One of Wang's most notorious and successful attempts occurred during Chiang's first operation to spread his power to

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by establishing

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party memberships there that were previously non-existent. Wang first refused Chiang's request but later, when he realized he would not get away with it, answered Chiang by claiming that everyone in

would become a member of

. Chiang was too far away to offer any actual help to his recruiters in

, and as a result they had to randomly circle names from the local population registry in order to fulfill their task, and Wang thus successfully thwarted Chiang's initial

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attempt. However, Chiang got his chance for revenge years later when pursuing the fleeing

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during the

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. Wang's local provincial army was no match for the communist forces and, under the excuse of helping the locals get rid of the communists by chasing after them, Chiang sent his own troops into

and successfully bribed Wang's trusted lieutenants to defect to Chiang's camp. Without effective military support, Wang was deposed by Chiang after the

left

. He eventually returned to

Zunyi Zunyi ( zh, s=遵义 , t=遵義 , p=Zūnyì) is a prefecture-level city in northern Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, situated between the provincial capital Guiyang to the south and Chongqing to the north, also bordering Sichuan to t ...

in May 1946 for his retirement. After the

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, Wang was named the deputy chairman of the provincial People's Political Consultative Conference, but he was denounced during the

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and died in 1966.

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Rulers: Chinese Administrative divisions, Guizhou
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Jialie 1893 births Republic of China warlords from Guizhou People's Republic of China politicians from Guizhou 1966 deaths People from Zunyi Political office-holders in Guizhou Victims of the Cultural Revolution