Xu Yongchang

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After the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was the president of the Beijing Military Institute and the Minister of Defence. He represented China at the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. He went to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War, served as a senior advisor to the Office of the President and a member of Central Review Committee, and died in 1959.

Xu Yongchang's diary was published by the Academia Sinica's Institute of Modern History in 1989.

See also

• History of the Republic of China
• Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

References

External links

• Pictures of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan
• The Generals of WWII
• https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/13/archives/hsu-yung-chang-70-i-chinese-army-aidei.html