Zhang Xueliang and the Xi'an Incident

Zhang Xueliang, known as "the Young Marshal," lived one of the most interesting lives of 20th century China. 

After inheriting Manchuria from his father in his 20s, the young warlord went on to play in a pivotal role in the Xi'an Incident of December 1936. The event, for better or worse, would forever alter the course of Chinese and hence world history. And Zhang would pay for it with the next half century of his life...

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