Wang Yaowu

Wang Yaowu was a high-ranking Kuomintang general and Governor of Shandong Province who successfully defeated the Japanese and the Chinese Communists. In September 1948, Communist forces launched the Battle of Jinan. Wang was captured and held as a prisoner of war until his pardon and release in 1959. During the Cultural Revolution he came under attack by the Red Guards for being a former nationalist commander and died of a heart attack in 1968.