Sheng Shicai

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Sheng Shicai (Chinese: 盛世才; 3 December 1895 – 13 July 1970) was a Chinese warlord who ruled the province of Xinjiang from 1933 to 1944. He was a Manchurian-born Han Chinese, educated in Tokyo, Empire of Japan, where he studied political economy and later attended the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. Sheng had become a Marxist in his youth, and after returning to China he participated in the anti-imperialist May Fourth Movement in 1919. In 1927, he joined the Northern Expedition, a military campaign of the Kuomintang against the Beiyang government. In 1929, he was called into service of the Governor of Xinjiang, Jin Shuren, where he served as Chief of Staff of the Frontier Military and Chief Instructor at the Provincial Military College. With the Kumul Rebellion ongoing, Jin was overthrown in a coup d'état on 12 April 1933 and Sheng was appointed duban or Military Governor of Xinjiang. Since then, he led a power struggle against his rivals, of whom Ma Zhongying and Zhang Peiyuan were most...

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