Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsüeh-liang (born 3 June 1901 in Haicheng County, Fengtian Province, Qing China; died 14 October 2001, in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States), occasionally called Peter Hsueh Liang Chang and nicknamed the "Young Marshal" (少帥), was the effective ruler of Manchuria and much of northern China after the assassination of his father, Zhang Zuolin, by the Japanese on 4 June 1928. As an instigator of the Xi'an Incident, he spent over fifty years under house arrest and is regarded by the People's Republic of China as a patriotic hero.