Zang Shiyi

Zang Shiyi; Simplified Chinese: or Wade-Giles: Tsang Shih-yi, , Chinese general who was Governor of Liaoning Province at the time of the invasion of Manchuria in 1932.

Biography

Zang was born in Shenyang county of Liaoning Province in 1885. He traveled to Japan, where he graduated from the cavalry school of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. On his return to China, he was appointed for the Kuomingtang Army in Jilin Province. Together with Yan Yuting, he subsequently became Chief of staff of the business administration section of the Kuomingtang Army headquarters in Nanjing. After the death of Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin, he became governor of Liaoning Province in 1930.

After the Mukden Incident, Zang initially refused to cooperate with the Japanese and was imprisoned. However, he later decided to defect, and was re-appointed governor of Liaoning Province on 16 December 1931. He was part of the North Eastern Administrative Committee or Self-Government Guiding Board that made plans for a new State of Manchukuo to be established in February 1932.

From 21 May 1935, Zang served as president of the Manchukuo Senate. He later served as Minister for Home Affairs, and was Emperor Puyi's choice to replace Zheng Xiaoxu as Prime Minister of Manchukuo, . After the collapse of Manchukuo in August 1945 following the invasion in Operation August Storm, he was captured and held in custody in Siberia. He was extradited to the People's Republic of China in 1950, where he later died in captivity at the Fushun .