What I Know About Long Yun

Author: Wen Si
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Tang Jiyao, commander of the "Bi Fei Jun" division, later governed Yunnan for eighteen years. He served as the commander of the army group, dispatched troops to fight against Japan outside Yunnan, constructed the Yunnan-Burma Road, and supported the Chinese Expeditionary Force. He opposed Chiang Kai-shek's autocracy, supported the patriotic democratic movement, and secretly joined the China Democratic League and the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. He incurred Chiang Kai-shek's suspicion and was forced to leave Yunnan after the war of resistance victory, serving as the President of the Military Advisory Council of the Kuomintang, a position with no real authority, effectively like a soft prison. With the help of Claire Chennault, he disguised himself and escaped to Hong Kong, promoting the Yunnan Uprising. He then traveled north to join the people's government and participated in the First Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.