Zang Shiyi

Zang Shiyi 臧式毅
Zang Shiyi, Speaker of the Manchukuo Senate
Born	October 1884 Shenyang, Manchuria, Qing Empire
Died	November 13, 1956 Fushun, China
Other names	Tsang Shih-i
Citizenship	Manchukuo

Zang Shiyi (Chinese: 臧式毅; pinyin: Zāng Shìyì; Wade–Giles: Tsang Shih-i Hepburn: Zō Shikiki; October 1884 – November 13, 1956) was a Chinese general and Governor of Liaoning Province at the time of the invasion of Manchuria in 1932.

Zang was born in Shenyang county of Liaoning Province in 1884. He traveled to Japan on a scholarship to the Tokyo Shimbu Gakko, and subsequently graduated from 9th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, with a specialty in the cavalry in 1909. On his return to China, he joined the pro-republican forces in Nanjing during the Xinhai Revolution.

After the foundation of the Republic of China, in 1914 he became an instructor at the Baoding Military Academy, where he soon caught the attention of Admiral Sheng Hung Leih, who appointed him to his staff. He rose to Chief of staff for the Kuomintang forces in Kirin Province. He participated in the Zhili–Anhui War in 1920 and the First Zhili–Fengtian War of 1923. Together with Yan Yuting, he subsequently became Chief of staff of the business administration section of the Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army headquarters in Nanjing.