Former Residence of Zhang Xueliang (Hsinchu County)

The Former Residence of Zhang Xueliang (Chinese: 張學良故居; pinyin: Zhāng Xuéliáng Gùjū) is a museum about Zhang Xueliang in Wufeng Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan.[1]

Former Residence of Zhang Xueliang
張學良故居
General information
TypeMuseum
LocationWufeng, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Coordinates24°34′33.5″N 121°06′14.2″E
Opened12 December 2008
Technical details
Floor area150 m2
Zhang Xueliang

History

Zhang Xueliang is the person who declared the Chinese reunification in 1928 after the end of the Northern Expedition by the National Revolutionary Army led by Chiang Kai-shek to unite the Beiyang Government under the Republic of China. Chiang was unwilling to cooperate with the Communist Party of China to defend China against the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. On December 1936, in the event called the Xi'an Incident, Zhang took Chiang as hostage and demanded that he stop the civil war with the Communist Party and unite to fight against the Japanese.

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Chiang imprisoned Zhang due to the incident and sent him to Taiwan under house arrest in Wufeng Township, Hsinchu County from 1946 to 1957. Zhang left Taiwan in 1993 to visit his relatives in the United States. In 1995, Zhang and wife settled in Hawaii until his death on 14 October 2001 at the age of 100. In the Chinese way of counting, his age was 101.

The house where he was kept under house arrest was damaged due to a landslide in 1963. In July 2008, the building underwent renovation to restore it and was opened to public on 12 December 2008 during the 72nd anniversary of Xi'an Incident. The opening ceremony was attended by President Ma Ying-jeou.

Architecture

The house spans about 150 m2 in area. It is decorated with Zhang's old furniture and more than 500 pictures donated by his two nieces. A bronze statue of him and his wife is displayed outside the front of the historical house.

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See also

References
  1. english@peopledaily.com.cn. "KMT Gen. Zhang's former Taiwan residence renovated, opened to public - People's Daily Online". English.peopledaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
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