Zhang Zuolin

(1873-1928)
Born in 1873 in Manchuria in the province Fentszyan (now Liaoning). Starting life journey as a petty gangster (Hunhooz), it was useful to the Japanese during the Russian-Japanese War. During the Chinese Revolution 1911-1912 has absolute power in Manchuria and held her, while various positions until his death. In 1920, Zhang was promoted to marshal and proclaimed the administrative independence of Manchuria in the Chinese Respubliki.V 1928 declared himself dictator, . but collapsed in attempts to prevent the ascent of Chiang Kai-Shek, . which along with other warlords drove Zhang from Beijing,
. Zhang was killed June 4, 1928. As testified to July 2, 1946 in Tokyo before the tribunal, which hears cases of war criminals, the Japanese Admiral Keisuke Okada, Zhang dealt with Japanese agents, disgruntled by the fact that he failed to stop the advance of Chiang Kai-Shek. Zhang's successor in Manchuria, his son Zhang Xueliang.