Yang Aiyuan | |
Native Name: | Chinese: 楊愛源 |
Birth Date: | 1887 |
Death Date: | 2 January 1959 |
Birth Place: | Wutai County, China |
Death Place: | Taipei, Taiwan |
Branch: | National Revolutionary Army |
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Yang Aiyuan (楊愛源) (1887 – 2 January 1959) was a KMT general from Shanxi. From 1928 to 1930, Yang was the first chairman of the government of Chahar, a newly formed province of the Republic of China. In 1937, as a general of the KMT, he played an active part in the Battle of Taiyuan and the Battle of Xinkou. He died in 1959 in Taiwan.