General A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air force, air and space forces, marines or naval infantry. In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colone ...

Xu Yongchang (15 December 188512 July 1959) (Hsu Yung-chang; ; style name: Cichen (Tzu-chen)) was the Minister of Board of Military Operations of the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

between December 22, 1948, and April 22, 1949, and the representative of the

on September 2, 1945, at the signing of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan that ended

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. Xu Yongchang graduated from the Beijing Military Institute and later became the General Commander of the 3rd Army under

Feng Yuxiang Feng Yuxiang (; ; 6 November 1882 – 1 September 1948), courtesy name Huanzhang (焕章), was a Chinese warlord and later general in the National Revolutionary Army. He served as Vice Premier of the Republic of China from 1928 to 1930. A ...

and the 20th Route Jin Army under

Yan Xishan Yan Xishan (; 8 October 1883 – 22 July 1960; also romanized as Yen Hsi-shan) was a Chinese warlord who served in the government of the Republic of China from June 1949 to March 1950 as its last premier in mainland China and first premi ...

. He was the Chairman of

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province at the time of Mukden Incident, and served in the

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as the Chief Operations Supreme Staff. After the

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, he was the president of the Beijing Military Institute and the Minister of Defence. He represented China at the

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. He went to

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after the

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, served as a senior advisor to the Office of the

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and a member of Central Review Committee, and died in 1959. Xu Yongchang's diary was published by the

Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, ; zh, t=中央研究院) is the national academy of the Taiwan, Republic of China. It is headquartered in Nangang District, Taipei, Nangang, Taipei. Founded in Nanjing, the academy supports research activities in mathemat ...

's Institute of Modern History in 1989.

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Pictures of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan
*https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/13/archives/hsu-yung-chang-70-i-chinese-army-aidei.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Xu, Yongchang Politicians of Taiwan Senior advisors to President Chiang Kai-shek Republic of China politicians from Shanxi 1885 births 1959 deaths Politicians from Xinzhou Chinese military personnel of World War II Chinese Civil War refugees Taiwanese people from Shanxi

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