Yang Ruifu (1902 – 3 February 1940) (), courtesy name Jieqing, was a Chinese military officer. Born in 1902 in
Jinghai County,
Tianjin
Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...
, he joined the
National Revolutionary Army
The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; zh, labels=no, t=國民革命軍) served as the military arm of the Kuomintang, Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) from 1924 until 1947.
From 1928, it functioned as the regular army, de facto ...
in 1921, assigned the 524th Regiment of the
88th Division. He rose through the ranks from squad, platoon, company to regimental commander. One of the leaders of the
Defense of Sihang Warehouse, he later escaped from incarceration at the hands of the British and rejoined the Chinese war effort. In May 1939 he moved with his family to
Hechuan,
Chongqing
ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...
to recover, but died of a wound infection in early 1940. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of
brigadier general.
He was considered as one of the most prominent figures during the battle of Shanghai.
Chinese people of World War II
National Revolutionary Army generals from Tianjin
1902 births
1940 deaths
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