Zhu Shaoliang

Zhu Shaoliang (; 28 October 1891 – 25 December 1963) was a general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China.

Biography Zhu was born in Fuzhou in 1891. He went to Japan to study, where he joined the Tongmenghui in 1910. He participated in the 1911 Revolution in Hankou before returning to Japan. He returned to China in 1916, serving with the Guizhou clique until 1923, when he joined Sun Yat-sen's Guangzhou Nationalist government. In September 1928, he became the commander of the National Revolutionary Army's Eighth Division, participating in the Central Plains War. In 1933, Zhu Shaoliang became chairman of the Gansu Provincial Government. In 1935, he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander-in-chief of the Third Route Army to suppress the Chinese Communists.

In 1937, he participated in the Battle of Shanghai as commander of the 9th Army Group. Zhu joined the pacifist Low-Key Club during the early Second Sino-Japanese War, which consisted of Nanjing Nationalist elites and emphasized China's inability to counter Japan's military power, while advocating for Sino-Japanese peace and a ceasefire. In 1939, Zhu became the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Theater. In 1941, Zhu also served as the commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area; in 1944 he briefly served as the chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial Government.