Wang Sheng ( general ) Wang Sheng ( ; October 15 , 1915 – October 5 , 2006 ) was a general in the Republic of China Army , head of the General Political Warfare College and a close confidant to President Chiang Ching - kuo . He divorced his childhood wife ( with whom he had a daughter ) and married Hu Hsiang - li in 1945 , who bore three sons and two daughters . Hu died in 1955 . Later , Wang Sheng married Hsiung Hui - ying in November 1956 , and had a son . Mainland life . Wang Sheng , born Wang Shiu - chieh on October 15 , 1915 , was the son of a rich Hakka land - owning family in Longnan County , Jiangxi , on the Guangdong border . He received an elementary education at Chih - liang Elementary School ( 1924 – 29 ) and then worked as a clerk in his brother ’ s traditional medicine store . After a return to formal study at Nanfang Institute of Chinese Literature , ( 1932 – 35 ) , Wang joined the Righteous Warriors Communist Suppression Squad , a militia mopping up after the remaining forces left behind in the former Jiangxi - Fujian Soviet area after the Chinese Communist Party embarked on its Long March . Wang subsequently joined the 12th Jiangxi Security Protection Regiment , in 1936 , as a clerk . After a year , he was transferred to the training battalion of the 6th Strong Youth Training Regiment , which was directly under the leadership of Generalissimo Chiang Kai - shek ’ s son , Chiang Ching - kuo . CCK , as he later became known , had just returned from a decade in the Soviet Union , during which time he reportedly joined the communist party and then became disillusioned with it . Wang became aide de camp to a regimental commander working directly under CCK , but there is no indication the two men met at that time . After a brief period of combat and further self - education , he entered Class 16 of the Jiangxi Third Branch of the Central Military Academy in February 1939 . It was at this time that Wang joined the Kuomintang ( KMT , or Nationalist Party ) , and after graduating first in his class , he was sent to the Three Principles of the People ( " San Min Chu - i " or " San Min Zhuyi " ) Youth Corps Training Course , run directly by CCK . Again , Wang graduated at the top of his class , and was chosen to work for Chiang Ching - kuo , which he did for the next 50 years . After several years in Southern Jiangxi administration , Wang was sent to Chongqing for further training and to attend the San Min Zhuyi Youth Corps ’ 1st National Congress , in 1943 . At the congress , CCK emerged from his post - Russian shadow and took leading roles in the half - million strong parallel youth organization . After the congress , Wang was sent back to Jiangxi as the third ranking leader of the provincial Youth Corps . In 1944 , he entered the first class of the Central Cadre Academy Research Division , a type of political graduate school ; one of his classmates was future Premier Li Huan . However , military setbacks shortened the students ’ studies . Desperate for more soldiers , the party in late 1944 created a youth militia , and made 35 - year - old Lieutenant General Chiang Ching - kuo its Political Department Director . Lieutenant Colonel Wang was sent to the South - east Branch as political officer ( commissar ) of the training base for the 208th and 209th Divisions . ( While Wang was at this assignment , a young communist named Jiang Zemin was arrested , and later released by his unit . In 1989 , Jiang became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party . ) At the end of the War Against Japan , Wang was in charge of the 1st Section ( propaganda ) of the 31st Corps Political Department , a logical progression when his 208th and 209th Divisions were reorganized into the corps - level unit . From November 1945 to June 1946 , Wang was with his units on garrison duty in Hangzhou . He was then reassigned to the seemingly low position of Director of Student Affairs at Chia - hsing ( Jiaxing ) Youth Middle School , a specially established training and education institution for demobilized soldiers of the Youth Army . He was , however , still directly under the orders of Chiang Ching - kuo . A year later , in July 1947 , CCK tapped ( now full ) Col . Wang as an inspector in the Ministry of National Defense Bureau of Preparatory Cadres , a revamped Youth Army demobilization organization . Ironically , the transfer coincided with a general mobilization to staff the newly erupting civil war . As needs changed , Wang was tasked as Deputy Section Chief in the KMT Youth Department , his first party assignment . He was nominally based in Nanjing , but travelled to universities across Nationalist - held territory . Hyperinflation . In mid - 1948 , inflation reached such a rate that wheelbarrows full of bank notes were insufficient to keep pace with price changes The government replaced the worthless " fabi " with a new , gold - backed " Chin - yuan Chuan " ( " Jinyuan quan " ) at a rate of three million to one . Simultaneously , hoarding and speculation were banned . Chiang Ching - kuo was assigned to implement this financial revolution at the Shanghai branch of the Economic Supervisors ’ Office , and immediately sent for Col . Wang . Wang Sheng brought the 6th Suppression and Reconstruction Brigade to Shanghai , and CCK began offering rewards for information on those not complying with the new laws . The unit comprised only 100 junior officers , and was later supplemented by seven other similar units , all under now - Major General Wang ’ s authority . He then established a 30 , 000 - strong Greater Shanghai Youth Service Corps to patrol the streets , enforcing the financial regulations . CCK and General Wang needed credibility , and fast . They found it by moving against high - profile figures , under the protection of the Chiang family name . Among those arrested were Du Wei - ping , the son of “ Big Ears ” Du Yuesheng , the senior - most Green Gang triad boss ; “ Rice Tiger ” Wan Moulin , a close associate of Du ; and the managers of several industrial establishments owned by former prime minister ( and CCK ' s uncle ) TV Soong . Ultimately , the effort failed and the regulations were lifted by end - October and hyperinflation returned with a vengeance . In the chaos of late 1948 and early 1949 , Gen . Wang took command of the Jiangxi 3rd Political Work Brigade ( his old 6th Suppression and Reconstruction Brigade , renamed ) and became Jiangxi Province KMT Secretary . After barely a month in Nanchang , he was ordered to Ganzhou , then Nanjing and Guangzhou . As Guangzhou became untenable , Wang ' s unit retreated into Chongqing , Sichuan Province ; said to have been the last unit to leave Guangzhou for Chongqing . In November 1949 , President Chiang Kai - Shek flew from Taiwan to Chongqing , to personally supervise the defense of Sichuan . That gave Wang an occasion to meet the President . Still , despite Chiang ' s presence , Chongqing fell to the Communists in the same November , the KMT government retreating to Chengdu . On December 10 , the President flew from Chengdu back to Taiwan . Wang hoped to stay in Sichuan and to lead guerilla fighting ; but on Chiang ' s orders , he also left Chengdu , arriving to Taiwan by the way of Hainan . His subordinates stayed behind in Sichuan ; many of them made it to Taiwan much later , via Burma . Taiwan . The Taiwan Wang arrived at in 1950 was the new home for over one million refugees , including many of the very elite of Republican society , government and business . After arriving in Taiwan in 1949 , CCK established a Political Action Committee in Kaohsiung with General P ’ eng Meng - ch ’ i ( Peng Mengqi ) and Air Force Commander ( later Army Chief - of - Staff ) Chou Chih - jou ( Zhou Zhirou ) . Much of the responsibility for the committee ’ s work , however , was delegated to Wang Sheng , intelligence chief Mao Jen - feng ( Mao Renfang ) and others ( the PAC was renamed the Political Work Department in 1950 , and the General Political Warfare Department in 1963 ) . This would have put Wang at the center of the mass purges that resulted in up to 10 , 000 arrests and as many as a thousand executions during 1949 - 50 . Gen . Peng deserves special mention . Known as the Butcher of Kaohsiung , Peng oversaw the reestablishment of control over the city , through the use of military force , after reinforcements arrived from the mainland . The association with CCK and General Peng would have had a very important influence on Wang ' s public reputation . In the following year or so , numerous high - ranking officials were accused of being communists , and executed . Among these were an Army deputy chief of staff and his wife ; the head of conscription ; a vice minister of national defense ; and the commander of the 70th Division . In Taiwan , Wang established the precursor to the General Political Warfare College , the elite training school for army and party cadres . Nominally second in charge in the civil - military programs , welfare and services section of CCK ’ s cadre system , Wang ’ s main task was laying the foundation for the Chinese Youth Anti - Communist League , or China Youth Corps as it was renamed . His mentor , Chiang Ching - kuo , was in 1952 named to the reformed KMT politburo and proceeded to take on a series of both military and economic responsibilities directly related to the future of Taiwan . Wang himself was nominated for the Central Committee in 1957 , but gave up his seat to a more senior military officer , and as first alternate , joined the CC in May 1959 . Col . Wang spent most of the later 1950s and 1960s training army political cadres in the General Political Warfare College , a position that allowed him to develop a teacher relationship with rising officers throughout the armed forces . All units from company level up were to have a political officer , and those above company level were trained at Wang ’ s " Fu Hsing Kang " ( Restoration Hill Base ) College in Taipei . In 1953 , he was named Assistant Commandant ( i . e . , Provost ) and in January 1954 was restored to the rank of Major General . By the end of 1955 , Wang was Commandant , and 40 years of age . In 1960 , Maj . Gen . Wang was transferred to the post of Deputy Director of the General Political Warfare Department ( GPWD ) , and about a year later in mid - 1961 was promoted to Lieutenant General and Executive Deputy Director . He remained in the post , until being promoted to Director in April 1975 , the same month in which Chiang Kai - shek died . General Wang served as Director of the General Political Warfare Department of the ROC Armed Forces from 1975 to 1983 . Domestic enemies . Opposition to the ruling KMT turned violent in the 1970s . Bombings in Tainan and Taipei targeted the American presence on the island in 1970 and 1971 , although casualties were light . Explosives also knocked out electric power in the southern part of the island in early 1976 . The campaign then escalated toward assassination when letter bombs were sent to Governor ( later Vice President ) Hsieh Tung - min ( Xie Dongmin ) , former Governor Huang Chieh ( Huang Jie ) and KMT Organization Department Director Li Huan , who later became KMT Secretary - General and Premier . Governor Hsieh lost his right arm and an eye in the attacks , whereas the others escaped injury . in 1980 , bombs at the Los Angeles homes of General Wang ' s second son , Wang Pu - tien ( Wang Butian ) and the son of Kaohsiung Mayor Wang Yu - yueng ( Wang Yuyong ; no relation ) detonated , killing Mayor Wang ' s brother - in - law . In the Spring of 1977 , KMT rising star Hsu Hsin - liang ( Xu Xinliang ) published a mildly critical memoir of his years in the provincial National Assembly , to raise support for his campaign for the seat of Taoyuan County Magistrate . When the KMT failed to nominate him , he ran as an independent , and was expelled from the party . In the run - up to the election , Gen . Wang ( and others ) undertook a campaign criticizing local literati as leftist . Election irregularities in Chungli County that year led to violence , creating the pretext for a crack - down on dissent and , simultaneously , solidifying the foundations of the opposition political network known as the " Tangwai " , or “ those outside the ( Nationalist ) party . ” One year later , amid a very tight domestic political environment , the United States switched its formal diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing . Diplomatic exile . Toward the end of his tenure , as President Chiang Ching - kuo ' s health was failing , General Wang travelled to the US . The trip , to discuss succession plans and possibly win backing for his own candidacy , has been described as either " secretive " or unauthorized . It also marked the end of Wang ' s special role in Taiwan politics . That CCK was getting potential successors out of the way was confirmed by his posting his own son , Chiang Hsiao - wu , to Taiwan ' s representative office in Singapore . For Wang Sheng , an even more remote assignment was found . In November 1983 , he arrived to Paraguay as the ambassador of the Republic of China . He was credited with helping the small Chinese - Paraguayan community to better organize , and to become less victimized by the police extortion . He , and the staff of his embassy , were instrumental in overseeing Taiwan ' s development assistance to this Latin American nation , which , although small in absolute terms , later became the world ' s largest country with which Republic of China has official diplomatic relations . At a reception held by Paraguay ' s President Andrés Rodríguez before Wang Sheng ' s departure from Paraguay in 1991 , President Rodríguez characterized Wang ' s contribution to Paraguay as " immeasurable " . Wang Sheng returned to Taiwan only in 1990 or 1991 , after Chiang Ching - kuo ' s death . He died on October 5 , 2006 in Taiwan .