Memorial of the Xi’an Incident 西安事变纪念馆

The Memorial of the Xi’an Incident 西安事变 is a memorial founded on the original sites of the major locations, where the coup led by the warlords Zhang Xueliang 张学良 (Chang Hsueh-liang, 1901-2001) and Yang Hucheng 杨虎城 (1893-1949) took place. On the night of December 12, 1936 they arrested Chiang Kai-shek 蒋介石 (1887-1975), the KMT (Kuomintang) leader and the government head, and detained him for two weeks. Zhang Xueliang and his Northeast Army pledged allegiance to the Nationalist central govern..