Aisin-Gioro Xiqia | |
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愛新覺羅·熙洽 | |
Xi Qia as a member of the Manchukuo Cabinet
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Imperial Household Minister and Interior Minister | |
In office 21 May 1935 – 1945 |
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Monarch | Emperor Puyi |
Preceded by | Shen Ruiling |
Minister of Finance | |
In office 9 March 1932 – 21 May 1935 |
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Monarch | Emperor Puyi |
Succeeded by | Sun Qichang |
Personal details | |
Born | 1883 Shenyang, Liaoning, Qing China |
Died | 1950 Fushun, Liaoning, People's Republic of China |
Citizenship | Manchukuo |
Alma mater | Imperial Japanese Army Academy |
Military service | |
Allegiance |
Fengtian clique Manchukuo |
Unit | Provincial Army of Kirin Province |
Xi Qia | |
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Other names | Hsi Hsia, also Xi Xia |
Aisin-Gioro Xiqia (Aisin-Gioro Hsi-hsia; Chinese: 愛新覺羅·熙洽; pinyin: Àixīnjuéluó Xīqià; Wade–Giles: Ai4-hsin1-chüeh2-lo2 Hsi1-ch'ia4; 1883–1950), commonly known monomymously as Xi Qia or Xi Xia (Hsi Hsia; Chinese: 熙洽; pinyin: Xīqià; Wade–Giles: Hsi1-hsia4; Hepburn: Ki Kō), was a general in command of the Kirin Provincial Army of the Republic of China, who defected to the Japanese during the Invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and who subsequently served as a cabinet minister in Manchukuo.
Xi Qia was an ethnic Manchu of the imperial clan of Aisin Gioro, and a supporter of efforts to create a new Manchu-dominated state in Manchuria after the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing dynasty in China. As a youth, he studied in Japan at the Tokyo Shimbu Gakko, a military preparatory school for Chinese students, followed by the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. He rose to the rank of lieutenant general and commanding officer of the Provincial Army of Kirin Province under the Fengtian clique.