Liao Yaoxiang
| Liao Yaoxiang | |
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General Liao Yaoxiang at his command post
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| Nickname(s) | The Jungle Fox, Tiger of China |
| Born | May 16, 1906 Xinshao County, Hunan |
| Died |
December 2, 1968 (aged 62) Beijing |
| Allegiance |
 Republic of China
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| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Unit | Second Cavalry Company |
| Commands held | New 22nd Division, New 6th Army, Chinese Army in India, 9th Army Group |
| Battles/wars | Battle of Shanghai, Battle of Nanjing, Battle of Lanfeng, Battle of Kunlun Pass, Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road, Burma Campaign 1944-1945, Battle of West Hunan, Campaign to Defend Siping, Battle of Jinzhou, Liaoshen Campaign |
| Awards | Order of Blue Sky and White Sun |
| Other work | historian |
Liao Yiaoxiang (Chinese: 廖耀湘; pinyin: Liào Yàoxiāng; 1906–1968) was a high-ranking Kuomintang commander who successful fought against both the Imperial Japanese Army and Chinese Communist forces. Apart from General Sun Liren, he was one of the few Nationalist commanders who graduated from a military academy in the West. After the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he served as a field commander in Manchuria until his capture by Marshal Lin Biao's Manchurian Field Army in the Liaoshen Campaign. [1] General Liao was held for 12 years as a prisoner of war until 1961 and died seven years later during the Cultural Revolution.
Liao Yiaoxiang was born into a rural gentry family in Hunan Province in 1906. He entered a local high school with Yang Kaihui, wife of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong. In 1926, He applied to enter the Whampoa Military Academy and graduated with top remarks. Some of his famous classmates included Chen Cheng, Xue Yue, Fan Hanjie, Dai Li, Hu Zongnan, Qiu Qingquan, Du Yuming, Zhang Lingfu, Hu Lien, Liu Yuzhang, Huang Wei, Li Mi, Wang Yaowu and Lin Biao. In 1930 he was chosen by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as an exchange student to France. In 1936 he graduated from the famed École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr with best grades in the class. He returned home in the same year and with promoted as company commander of the Cavalry unit of the Whampoa Military Academy with the rank of major.
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