Tang Yulin

Tang Yulin (traditional Chinese: 湯玉麟; simplified Chinese: 汤玉麟; Pinyin: Tāng Yùlín; Wade-Giles: T'ang Yü-lin; 1877 – 1937) was a Chinese warlord in the Fengtien clique and Chairman of the government of Rehe (Jehol).

Tang Yulin was born in 1871 in Fuxin, Liaoning. In 1902 he joined the Fengtian First Road Defense Sentry patrol battalion as an officer. In 1912 he was given command of the 27th Regiment, 27th Cavalry Division, and the following year was promoted to command the 52nd Brigade. In 1917 he participated in Zhang Xun's Manchu restoration. After Duan Qirui defeated Zhang he fled to Fuxin to live in seclusion. In 1919 Tang returned to be appointed as a Fengtian inspection official for the three Northeastern provinces. In May 1921 he was appointed the Fengtian army 11th Brigade Commander. During the Second Zhili-Fengtian War in 1924 he commanded the Fengtian 11th Infantry Division.

In 1926 he was appointed to command Fengtian's 12th Army and to the chairmanship of the government of Rehe, which he was to hold from April 5, 1926, to July 1932. After the Chinese reunification at the end of the Northern Expedition, Tang was confirmed in his control of Rehe by the Kuomintang and made governor and commander of the 36th Division. His many exactions and taxes gave him a great deal of revenue that he used to purchase luxury residences in the Italian concession in Tianjin. He also engaged in the opium trade, having an opium factory at his residence in Chengde, and sold Manchu antiques in the Treaty ports.

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