Guo Huaruo
Guo Huaruo | |||||||||
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郭化若 | |||||||||
Guo in 1955 | |||||||||
| Commander of the Shanghai Garrison Command | |||||||||
| In office August 1949 – August 1955 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Song Shilun | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Wang Bicheng | ||||||||
| Political Commissar the Shanghai Garrison Command | |||||||||
| In office May 1949 – November 1950 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | New title | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Li Shiying | ||||||||
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| Born | Guo Kebin (郭可彬) 10 August 1904 Fuzhou, Fujian, Qing China | ||||||||
| Died | 26 November 1995 (aged 91) Beijing, China | ||||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Republic of China Military Academy | ||||||||
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| Allegiance | People's Republic of China | ||||||||
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| Years of service | 1923–1985 | ||||||||
| Rank | Lieutenant general | ||||||||
| Battles/wars | Second Sino-Japanese War Chinese Civil War | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 郭化若 | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 郭可彬 | ||||||||
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Guo Huaruo (Chinese: 郭化若; pinyin: Guō Huàruò; Wade–Giles: Kuo Hua-jo; 1904−1995) was a Chinese military strategist and lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army. According to Alastair Iain Johnston, Guo was until the mid-1980s "the CCP's most authoritative interpreter and annotator" of The Art of War by Sun Tzu, but Guo was "practically unknown in the West".
Johnson said 'Guo stressed that from a Marxist–Leninist perspective the notion of "not fighting and subduing the enemy"'—the core of the conventional interpretation of Sun Zi—was un-Marxist, since class enemies could not be credibly defeated without the application of violence.'
Around June 4, 1937, Guo was the dean of studies of Qingyang Infantry School.