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Zhang Jingyao
garrisoned the province. He is also said to have reduced
the province to a state of beggary.
In August 1919, Zhang Jingyao censored Mao Ze-
dong’s "Xiang-jiang River Commentary" magazine be-
cause of Mao’s efforts to organize the movement for ex-
pelling him from the governorship. Mao led a Hunan stu-
dents’ delegation to Peking where he appealed nation-
wide for support and revealed Zhang Jingyao’s atrocities
in Hunan Province.
At Yochow on June 16, 1920, Zhang’s troops murdered
an American missionary, William A. Reimert. This pro-
voked the intervention of an American gunboat Upshur,
which sent ashore a landing party of one officer and 40
men on 25 June to protect the American mission. Two
days later—when local tensions had eased—they were
reembarked. On the 29th, Zhang Jingyao, was removed
from office, and the Chinese foreign office investigated
the incident and expressed its profound regrets to the
Americans. Zhang was later pardoned, in obscure cir-
cumstances.
In 1933, Zhang became involved in the scheme of the
Empire of Japan to set up the monarchy of Puyi in north-
ern China with Japanese money. An assassin shot and fa-
tally wounded him in Peiping’s Grand Hotel.
See also
• Warlord Era
Sources
Zhang Jingyao • "Inside the Pale". Time Magazine. 1933-05-15.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/
Jingyao, Chang Ching-yao, 張敬堯,
Zhang Jingyao 0,9171,745509,00.html. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
(1881–1933), was a Chinese General, the military gover- • Rulers: Chinese administrative divisions
nor of Chahar and later Hunan Province. He was known • USS Upshur
as one of the most notorious of China’s war-lords, known
for his troops’ atrocities and the looting of Hunan of its
wealth during his administration. He was removed from
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office for his abuses and eventually assassinated in 1933 • 百年中国汉奸榜: 张敬尧 in Chinese with photo (see
for aiding the Empire of Japan by attempting to set up the #19)
monarchy of Puyi in northern China with Japanese mon- Persondata
ey.
Name Zhang, Jingyao
Zhang Jingyao was born in 1881 and became a General
in the Beiyang Army and then was part of the Anhui Alternative names
clique. He was Military Governor of Chahar Province Short description Chiense general
from October 18, 1917 to March 29, 1918. He was then Date of birth 1881
given the post of Military Governor of Hunan province
Place of birth
from March 1918. While he was governor his troops com-
mitted many atrocities, killing civilians, robbing the Date of death 1933
wealthy, and raping women throughout the time they Place of death
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