About Yuan Shouqian
Lived 1904 – 1992 (aged 87–88). Yuan Shouqian was a politician.
General Yuan Shouqian (1904–1992) was a prominent Chinese and Taiwanese politician from Changsha, Hunan. He was awarded "Superior General Second Class" in Taiwan.
He was the eldest son of the Yuan family. His youngest sister, Yuan Shihui , later married Chen Zhike .
Under the recommendation of Tan Yankai, who was also from Hunan, Yuan Shouqian applied for the Whampoa Military Academy and became one of its first graduating class members.
Yuan Shouqian served many important posts for the Central Government of the Republic of China, including Deputy Minister of National Defense (1950), and Minister of Transportation (1954).
He died of cancer in Taipei, Taiwan in 1992.
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Yuan Shouqian was born in 1904.
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Yuan Shouqian died on 4 October 1992.
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