Background
Mr. Wan was born in Lungan District, Kirin, China (Kirin, Jilin, China).
Mr. Wan was born in Lungan District, Kirin, China (Kirin, Jilin, China).
Fu-Ling Wan took positions of commander of 57th Brigade of Fengtien Army, commander of 15th Mixed Brigade of the Army of Three Eastern Provinces, commander of 17th Division of the Northeastern Army, commander of the Peace Maintenance Force of Heilungkiang, commander of 8th Army of the Northeastern Army.
He was also a member of the Northeastern Political Affairs Commission, frontier Defense Force.
While he was holding the last two mentioned posts, the Mukden Affair occurred on Sept. 18, 1931, when he was at Peiping. He assigned his duties in Heilungkiang Province to Gen. Ma Chan-shan who was later appointed Chairman of the province in his stead.
He commanded one of the Northeastern Armies during the Japanese invasion of Jehol in the spring of 1932. Then he became a member of the Peiping Branch Military Affairs Commission and commander of the 53rd Army, executive member of the Hopei-Chahar Political Council in Peiping, China.