Qi Xueqi

Qi Xueqi (born August 28, 1900 - March 8, 1945) was a famous Anti-Japanese commander of the Kuomintang (KMT).

Biography
He was born in Tieluo (铁锣) village, Yanglin (杨林) township, Ningxiang county, Changsha city of Hunan province on August 28, 1900. He spent his childhood here and attended Qi's private home school. In 1912, His whole family moved to the capital of Hunan province, the city of Changsha. He studied in Changjun middle school and showed his strengths in literature and foreign language. Four years later, he went to Beijing and studied in Tsinghua University until 1920. It is not know where he was and what he did during the years 1920–1923 because different sources give contradicting statements. Zhou Demin’s brief biography of General Qi Xueqi said that he came back to Changsha after graduating from Tsinghua University and worked as a professor in Hunan University, teaching literature and foreign language, while other sources say that he had not graduate until 1923 when he went to USA.

In 1923, Qi went to the city of Norwich in the USA and majored horsemanship in Norwich University. When he came back from USA in 1929, he was appointed as regimental commander of 6th Military Police Regiment in Nanjing. On January 28, 1932, he led his 6th Regiment to Shanghai when the Japanese attacked Zhabei District of Shanghai. As the commander of 6th Military Police Regiment, he was on garrison duty of Shanghai and fought a fierce battle against the army of Japan. He was awarded many times in next several years for his brave in battle. In 1938, He came to Changsha and was appointed as the commander of the tax police of Changsha. It was an official post with very little to do. He applied to fight in the front because he thought that a soldier should be fighting instead of defending in rear. In 1942, he was sent to Burma as vice-commander of 38th division while the commander was Sun Li-jen (孙立人). The task of 38th division was assisting the Allies to fight the Japanese.

His death
When Qi was in prison camp, some other prisoners of war, Cai Zongfu, Zhang Jixiang and others, wanted to surrender and get money and become the officers of the puppet government of Wang Jingwei (汪精卫). They persuaded qi to surrender with them, but what they got was qi’s stern words repudiation. In 1945, the Japanese surrendered. The prisoners wound be liberated and back to China. Cai and Zhang worried that their ugly action wound be known to others and so they assassinated Qi at last hour before the dawn.

His family
Mother: Mrs. Zhao(赵氏)

Father: Qi Zhizhang (齐直章), aka. Qi Huang (齐璜)

Siblings: Have four sisters and no brother

Spouse: First wife: Mrs. Xiang (向氏), Second wife: Tong Xijun (童锡俊)

Other
Qi attended the great student movement in May 4, 1919 while he was a student in Tsinghua University.