At first, he ended up in Jiangsu, where he joined a Green Standard Army regiment. His activities during the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 are unclear, though he reportedly led a group of "revolutionary desperados" at the time. Following the conflict, he returned to crime and rose to lead his own bandit gang. Zhang eventually became a bandit in the Chinese countryside, though he served as auxiliary for the Imperial Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904–1905. At some point, he worked in Siberia, learning Russian. He successively worked as a pickpocket, bouncer, and prospector. In his teens, Zhang's family moved to Manchuria, where Zhang became involved in petty crime in Harbin. Zhang stayed with his mother who had taken a new lover. His mother was an exorcist and "practicing witch". Zhang's father worked as a head shaver and trumpeter, and was an alcoholic. Zhang was born in 1881 in Yi County (now Laizhou) in Shandong. Zhang's troops were defeated by the National Revolutionary Army during the Northern Expedition in 1928, and he fled to Japan before returning to Shandong in 1932, where he was assassinated by an officer avenging his father's death.īiography Early life and career He was notorious for his eccentric personality and extravagant lifestyle, which earned him nicknames such as the "Dogmeat General" ( 狗 肉 將 軍 Gǒuròu Jiāngjūn) Time magazine dubbed him China's "basest warlord". A member of the Fengtian clique, in 1925 Zhang was appointed the governor of Shandong province, which he ruled poorly and ruthlessly as his personal fiefdom, engaging in opium smuggling and keeping more than 30 concubines. Zhang Zongchang ( Chinese: 張宗昌 pinyin: Zhāng Zōngchāng also romanized as Chang Tsung-chang 1881 – 3 September 1932), courtesy name Xiaokun, was a Chinese warlord active during the Warlord Era of the Republic of China. Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong.
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