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Xu Xiangqian (November 8, 1901 – September 21, 1990) was a Marshal of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He was the son of a wealthy landowner, but joined the Kuomintang 's (KMT) National Revolutionary Army (NRA), against his parents' wishes, in 1924.
Xu Xiangqian (8 November 1901 - 21 September 1990) was a Chinese Communist military leader and one of the ten marshals of the People's Liberation Army. He was the son of a wealthy landowner, but joined the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army, against his parents' wishes, in 1924.
Sep 22, 1990 · Gen. Xu Xiangqian, a scion of a landowner's family who joined the Communist underground in the 1920's and came to be one of China's most venerable military leaders, died this morning.
The Chinese Red Army, formally the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army [a] or just the Red Army, was the military wing of the Chinese Communist Party from 1928 to 1937. It was formed when Communist elements of the National Revolutionary Army splintered and mutinied in the Nanchang Uprising.
Sep 22, 1990 · Xu Xiangqian, one of the famed 10 marshals of the Communist Party’s Red Army, died Friday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. He was 88. Xu, a former defense minister, led a division of...
Presents the biography of Xu Xiangqian, the Chinese general who survived the Civil War and the Cultural Revolution, despite not always being allied with Mao.
Xu Xiangqian was conferred the rank of marshal in 1955. [Photo/PLA Daily] A group photo at Nangong with leaders of the Column Marching Eastward to Resist Japanese Aggression. From the left: Xu ...
