Du Yuming

Du Yuming
Lieutenant General Du Yuming
Native name	杜聿明
Born	(1904-11-28)28 November 1904 Mizhi County, Shaanxi, Qing dynasty
Died	7 May 1981(1981-05-07) (aged 76) Beijing, People's Republic of China
Allegiance	Republic of China
Service / branch	National Revolutionary Army
Years of service	1924–1948
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	200th Division
Commands	5th corps, 2nd army, Xuzhou Forward Command Center
Battles / wars	Northern Expedition Second Sino-Japanese War Defense of the Great Wall Battle of Kunlun Pass Burma Campaign Chinese Civil War Campaign to Defend Siping Linjiang Campaign Liaoshen Campaign Huaihai Campaign
Awards	Order of Blue Sky and White Sun
Other work	Writer, researcher, historian

Du Yuming (Chinese: 杜聿明; pinyin: Dù Yùmíng; Wade–Giles: Tu Yü-ming; 28 November 1904 – 7 May 1981) was a Kuomintang field commander. He was a graduate of the first class of Whampoa Academy, took part in Chiang's Northern Expedition, and was active in southern China and in the Burma theatre of the Sino-Japanese War. After the Japanese surrendered in 1945, he was an important commander in the Chinese Civil War.

From 1945 to 1947 Du commanded Nationalist forces in Northeast China and won several important battles against Communist forces there, including defeating the Communist general Lin Biao twice at Siping. Despite his successes, Chiang relieved him from command in 1947, after which Communist forces quickly took control of the region.

Du was captured later in the civil war and spent a decade as a prisoner of war. He was released in 1959, and given a position in the Communist government.

Yang Chen-Ning, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, was his son-in-law.^[1]