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POLITICIAN

Xu Xiangqian

1901 - 1990

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Xu Xiangqian (November 8, 1901 – September 21, 1990) was a Chinese Communist military leader and one of the ten marshals of the People's Liberation Army. He was the son of a wealthy landowner, but joined the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army, against his parents' wishes, in 1924. When the Kuomintang (KMT) began to fight the Communists (CCP) in 1927, Xu left Chiang's forces and joined the Eyuwan Soviet on the borders of Hubei, Henan, and Anhui. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Xu Xiangqian has received more than 116,026 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Xu Xiangqian is the 11,999th most popular politician (down from 10,938th in 2019), the 767th most popular biography from China (down from 690th in 2019) and the 394th most popular Chinese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Xu Xiangqian ranks 11,999 out of 15,577Before him are Nilde Iotti, Rickard Sandler, Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Kenneth Arnold, Flavia Maxima Constantia, and Charles D. B. King. After him are Ariobarzanes III of Cappadocia, Amalafrid, Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Piankh, Meretseger, and Ahmad Shukeiri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Xu Xiangqian ranks 177Before him are Willy Fritsch, Lisette Model, Alberto Hurtado, Henri Sauguet, Ernest Nagel, and Arne Borg. After him are Fernando Tambroni, Erich Ollenhauer, Mária Mednyánszky, Jean Mermoz, Enrique Santos Discépolo, and Ed Begley. Among people deceased in 1990, Xu Xiangqian ranks 154Before him are Anne Revere, René David, Joel McCrea, Vladimir Stoychev, Erkki Aaltonen, and Luis Trenker. After him are Edwin O. Reischauer, Luigi Beccali, Otto E. Neugebauer, Robert Cummings, Merab Mamardashvili, and Edmond Delfour.

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In China

Among people born in China, Xu Xiangqian ranks 767 out of 1,392Before him are Chen Jingrun (1933), Chen Qimei (1878), Li Ning (1963), Dai Zhen (1724), Qiao Shi (1924), and Xiao Hong (1911). After him are Liu Yifei (1987), Jing Fang (-78), Meng Wanzhou (1972), Yu Zhengsheng (1945), Fei Xiaotong (1910), and Yu Hua (1960).

Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Xu Xiangqian ranks 394Before him are Nie Rongzhen (1899), Tang Jingsong (1841), Han Zheng (1954), Qian Qichen (1928), Li Zhaoxing (1940), and Qiao Shi (1924). After him are Yu Zhengsheng (1945), Luo Ruiqing (1906), Jia Qinglin (1940), Lou Tseng-Tsiang (1871), Liu Yandong (1945), and Zhou Fohai (1897).