"Xu, Xiangqian"@en . "Marshal of China" . "1990Z"^^ . . . "*Deputy commander-in-chief of North China and 1st Army commander" . "*4th Front Army commander" . "\u5F90\u5411\u524D (Chinese)"@en . . "*Chief of PLA staff" . . . "1924Z"^^ . "1901-11-08Z"^^ . . . "1959Z"^^ . . "*National Defense Minister" . . . . . "1901Z"^^ . "Xu Xiangqian (Chinese: \u5F90\u5411\u524D; pinyin: X\u00FA Xi\u00E0ngqi\u00E1n; Wade\u2013Giles: Hsu Hsiang-chen; November 8, 1901 \u2013 September 21, 1990) was a Chinese communist military leader. He was the son of a wealthy landowner, but joined Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army, against his parents' wishes, in 1924. When the Kuomintang began to fight the Communists in 1927, Xu left Chiang's forces and led a Communist army based in Sichuan under the political authority of Zhang Guotao."@en . "1990-09-21Z"^^ .