Chang Hsueh-liang, or Han Ching as he was also known, was born in 1901 in the port of Liaoning, the oldest son of the warlord Chang Tso-lin. This was in the period after the foreign powers had crushed the Boxer Rebellion, an era of social upheavals and active revolutionary movements.
張學良字漢卿，遼寧海城人，奉系軍閥首領張作霖的長子，出生於一九零一年（光緒二十七年），適逢八國聯軍後，社會動盪不安，革命活動積極的年代。