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Chu Shao-chou was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China in 1892.
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Shao-chou Chu
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Tsoh Shao-chou
Education
He received his preliminary training at the Nanjing (Nanking) Military High School.
Career
Upon outbreak of the First Revolution, Chu Shao-chou secretly left Nanjing (Nanking) and fought against the Manchu Loyalists at Wuchang under command of the late Gen. Huang Hsin. Shortly after, he returned to Shanghai and was dispatched by the late Gen. Chen Chi-mei, Tutu of Shanghai, to Huchow to assist in the organization of the Zhejiang (Chekiang) Provincial Defence Army.
Following unification of the North and South, Mr. Chu resumed his studies at the Paotingfu Military Officers' College and became a schoolmate of Gen. Chang Chi-chung, Commander of the 5th Army. During the Northern Punitive Expedition of the Revolutionary Army in 1926, he was a battalion commander in the Chekiang Army garrisoning Jiujiang (Kiukiang) and was the first to espouse the cause of the Revolution by joining hands with the Expeditionary Army, thereby saving the city from the ravages of war.
When the Zhejiang (Chekiang) Army was reorganised as the 26th Revolutionary Army, he was appointed Chief of staff of the Army and assisted in the pacification of Shanghai by Eastern Route Revolutionary Army under command of Gen. Pai Chung-hsi. Chu Shao-chou retired in 1928 and amused himself by painting.
Mr. Chu appointed chief of staff of the 2nd Training Division under command of Gen. Chang Chi-chung and participated in the Tsinan Incident of May 3, 1929. After the Incident, he re-joined the Central Military Academy and devoted himself to military education upon the outbreak of the Japanese Hostilities at Shanghai in 1932, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 6th Army and rendered meritorious services to the Army in the defence of Shanghai. Then Chu Shao-chou became a Chief of the training department of the Central Military Academy.
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