Hau Pei-tsun

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Hau Pei-tsun 郝柏村
Official portrait, 1990
13th Premier of Taiwan
In office 1 June 1990 – 27 February 1993
President	Lee Teng-hui
Vice Premier	Shih Chi-yang
Preceded by	Lee Huan
Succeeded by	Lien Chan
Other offices Minister of National Defense In office 5 December 1989 – 31 May 1990 Premier Lee Huan Deputy Kuo Tsung-ching Preceded by Cheng Wei-yuan Succeeded by Chen Li-an Chief of General Staff of the ROC Armed Forces In office 1 December 1981 – 4 December 1989 President Chiang Ching-kuo Lee Teng-hui Deputy Wu Yueh (Air Force) Tsou Chien (Navy) Kuo Ju-lin (Air Force) Chiang Chung-ling (Army) Preceded by Soong Chang-chi (Navy) Succeeded by Chen Sheng-lin (Air Force) 16th Commander-in-Chief of the ROC Army In office March 1978 – November 1981 President Yen Chia-kan Chiang Ching-kuo Preceded by Ma An-lan Succeeded by Chiang Chung-ling
Vice Chairman of Kuomintang
In office 18 August 1993 – 14 December 1995
Chairman	Lee Teng-hui
Preceded by	Position established
Personal details
Born	(1919-08-08)8 August 1919 Yancheng, Jiangsu, Republic of China
Died	30 March 2020(2020-03-30) (aged 100) Neihu, Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Resting place	Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery
Political party	Kuomintang (1938–1995, 2005–2020)
Spouse	Kuo Wan-hua ​ ​ (m. 1950; died 2018)​
Children	2 sons 3 daughters
Military service
Branch/service	Republic of China Army
Years of service	1938–1989
Rank	Senior General
Battles/wars	Second Sino-Japanese War World War II Chinese Civil War Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
Chinese name
Chinese	郝柏村
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hǎo Bócūn Wade–Giles hao3 po2 tsʻun1
courtesy name
Chinese	伯春
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Bóchūn Wade–Giles po2 chʻun1

Hau Pei-tsun (Chinese: 郝柏村; pinyin: Hǎo Bócūn, 8 August 1919 – 30 March 2020) was a Chinese politician and military officer who was the Premier of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1 June 1990 to 27 February 1993, and the longest-serving Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces from 1 December 1981 to 4 December 1989. On 6 July 2017, Hau attended an academic meeting in Nanjing about the history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, making him the first former ROC premier to visit Mainland China since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.^[1] He died in March 2020 at age 100.