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Xu Yongchang
Native name
徐永昌
BornDecember 15, 1885
Yuanping, Shanxi, Qing dynasty
Died12 July 1959(1959-07-12) (aged 73)
Taipei, Taiwan
AllegianceXu Yongchang Republic of China
Service/branchRepublic of China (1912–1949) National Revolutionary Army
Years of service1909–1959
RankGeneral
UnitShanxi clique
Commands heldFirst War Zone
Battles/wars
  • Northern Expedition
  • Central Plains War
  • Second Sino-Japanese War
  • Chinese Civil War
AwardsOrder of Blue Sky and White Sun
Other workgovernment advisor

General Xu Yongchang (15 December 1885 – 12 July 1959) (Hsu Yung-chang; Chinese: 徐永昌; pinyin: Xú Yǒngchāng; Wade–Giles: Hsu2 Yung3-ch'ang1; style name: Cichen (Tzu-chen)) was the Minister of Board of Military Operations of the Republic of China between December 22, 1948, and April 22, 1949, and the representative of the Republic of China on September 2, 1945, at the signing of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan that ended World War II.

Xu Yongchang graduated from the Beijing Military Institute and later became the General Commander of the 3rd Army under Feng Yuxiang and the 20th Route Jin Army under Yan Xishan. He was the Chairman of Shanxi province at the time of Mukden Incident, and served in the National Revolutionary Army as the Chief Operations Supreme Staff.

Tokyo Bay, Japan -- Surrender of Japanese aboard USS "Missouri". Xu Yongchang, representing China, signs the instrument of surrender. Douglas MacArthur, Allied Supreme Commander, watches; another Chinese representative Wang Zhi (zh:王之) observes as he stands with his back to the camera.

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.

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