Bao Wenyue

Bao Wenyue (Chinese: 鮑文樾; pinyin: Bào Wényuè; Wade–Giles: Pao Wen-yüeh, 1892–1980) was a Chinese warlord and military officer who was the Minister of Military Affairs in the Reorganized National Government of China under Wang Jingwei, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Bao Wenyue
Bao Wenyue as pictured in The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries
Minister of Military Affairs (Nanjing Nationalist Government)
In office March 1940 – April 1943 (acting until March 1941)
President	Wang Jingwei
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Ye Peng
Chief of Staff (Nanjing Nationalist Army)
In office April 1943 – April 1945
Preceded by	Liu Yufen
Succeeded by	Hu Yukun
Personal details
Born	1892 Liaoning Province, Qing Empire
Died	1980 Taipei, Republic of China
Military service
Allegiance	China China-Nanjing
Rank	General
Battles/wars	Second Sino-Japanese War

Biography

He was born in the Liaoning Province in 1892, during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor. Bao was a graduate of the Peking military institute. From 1931 to 1939 Bao was a member of the Military Affairs Commission of the Republic of China. In 1939, he surrendered to the Japanese and was declared a traitor by the Nationalist government. In 1940 he was promoted to general by the collaborationist government under Wang Jingwei in Nanjing and was made the war minister. After the capitulation of Japan in 1945, he was arrested by the Nationalists and sentenced to death the following year. However, the sentence was never carried out and he was instead sent to Taiwan, where he lived in prison until his release in 1975. Bao died in 1980.

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