Chang Hsueh-liang, 101; world's longest-held political prisoner

Chicago Sun-Times | October 16, 2001 | Copyright

BEIJING--Chang Hsueh-liang, a former military commander who played a historic role in the turbulent China of the 1930s, has died in Hawaii, China's Xinhua News Agency said Monday. He was 101.

Mr. Chang died Sunday evening in a Honolulu hospital, Xinhua said, reportedly of pneumonia.

Mr. Chang was a former military chief in northern China who in 1936 kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek, then China's leader. Chiang was fighting Mao Zedong's communist guerrillas, but Mr. Chang wanted to force him into an alliance with them in hopes of repelling Japanese forces that were invading China.

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