Mow Pang Tsu
| Mow Pang Tzu (毛邦初) | |
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Mow Pang Tzu in 1943
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| Born |
March 5, 1904 Shanghai, China |
| Died | June 22, 1987 (aged 83) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Allegiance |
 Republic of China
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| Service/ |
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| Years of service | 1927–1952 |
| Rank |
 Lieutenant General (1949–1952) |
| Commands held |
Republic of China Air Force
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| Battles/wars | |
| Awards | Medal of the Kuomintang (1944) Legion of Merit (1945) |
| Spouse(s) | Wong Ay Chua Agnes Kelly (1951–1956) |
Major General (1940–1949)
Mow Pang Tzu (Chinese: 毛邦初; also transcribed as Mow Pang Tsu, Mow Pong Tsu, Mow Pang Chu or Mao Bangchu; March 5, 1904 – June 22, 1987) was a high-ranking military officer in the Chinese Chiang Kai-shek government. He was the main figure in an embezzlement scandal that pitched him against the Taiwan government in the early fifties. The charges and countercharges of fraud and misappropriation of millions of dollars, ensuing legal battles, and John-le-Carré-like plots involving private detectives, Mexican prisons, night-club dancers, US Congressmen, suspicious deaths, and the US Supreme Court, were covered in over 2,000 articles published in the US, China, Australia, India, and many other countries around the world.
Mow Pang Tzu was born in Shanghai, China, in 1904. His ancestral hometown is Ngai Tou, a suburb of Ningbo, in the county of Fenghua in Zhejiang Province (浙江省奉化县岩溪村). His mother was the older sister of Mao Fumei, (毛福梅, 9 November 1882 – 12 December 1939), the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek, and mother of Chiang Ching-kuo.Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, was born in 1887 in Xikou, a town approximately 30 kilometers (19 mi) southwest of downtown Ningbo. Mow Pang Tzu's father worked for Standard Oil in Shanghai. Standard Oil was an American company established by John D. Rockefeller in Ohio in 1870. By the end of the 19th century it had become one of the first multinational corporations, with offices around the world.
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