Yang Yongtai (simplified Chinese:杨永泰;traditional Chinese:楊永泰; 1880 – October 25, 1936) was aKuomintang politician of theRepublic of China. He was appointed governor ofHubei Province in 1936, but was assassinated the same year.
Yang was born inGaozhouGuangdong Province during theQing dynasty. He was a xiucai (Imperial examination student member). After finishing his education inBeijing, Yang edited a newspaper inGuangzhou calledGuangnan.
He joined theKuomintang in 1912, after theXinhai Revolution toppled the Qing empire and created the Republic of China. In 1913, he attended the 1st party congress of the Kuomintang as a delegate. In 1914, afterYuan Shikai dissolved China's parliament and expelled its Kuomintang members, Yang andHuang Xing published a magazine inShanghai voicing their opposition to Yuan's ambitions to become emperor. From 1917 until 1920, Yang was finance minister of the government of theConstitutional Protection Movement, centered in Guangdong Province. In June 1922, Yang went to Beijing to seek reconciliation between the Kuomintang and theBeiyang government, but afterCao Kun's seizure of the presidency in 1923, he ended those efforts in opposition to Cao. After a conference in 1925, Yang was confirmed as deputy party secretary of the finance ministry. In 1927, with the formation of theNationalist Government inNanjing underChiang Kai-shek, he formed the Political Science Clique withZhang Qun,Wang Ch'ung-hui andChang Kia-ngau. In 1931, he received an appointment as secretary of military affairs. In 1933, he went toNanchang to oversee its military affairs. In 1934, he was given full authority over the military affairs ofHenan,Anhui andHubei Provinces, headquartered inWuchang. He oversaw the campaigns against the forces of theChinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army present in those provinces. In early 1936, he was made governor of Hubei and assassinated later that year inHankou. The assassin was sponsored by a political rival in theCC Clique.
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