Zeng Sheng

Tsang Sang attended primary school in Huiyang and Hong Kong, before moving to Sydney to join his father in 1923.

Trouble with the authorities led him to move to Hong Kong in 1936, where he briefly worked as a school teacher and on the ocean liner RMS Empress of Japan, before resuming his studies at the end of the year.

In 1938, after the Imperial Japanese Army began an offensive in Guangdong, Tsang asked to return to China to organise a guerilla resistance force.

Although Tsang's force had been formed with the assistance of the Kuomintang-led regular army and co-operated with Allied operations (including the rescue of British prisoners-of-war and downed Allied airmen and assisting with MI9 operations in the New Territories), because of its Communist Party political affiliation it also experienced a number of armed conflicts with Kuomintang-affiliated regulars.

After the Communist victory in the civil war, Tsang was made a rear admiral in the People's Liberation Army Navy in 1955, and played an instrumental role in the development of the South Sea Fleet of the PLA's naval force.