Sheng Hsuan-huai (4 November 1844-27 April 1916), industrial promoter who developed the concept of company organization known as kuan-tu shang-pan [official supervision and merchant management]. Wuchin hsien, Ch'angchou, Kiangsu, was the birthplace of Sheng Hsuan-huai. His father, the gentry-official Sheng K'ang (1814— 1902), was a chin-shih of 1844 who held several minor provincial posts before […]
Miao Ch'üan-sun (1844-22 December 1919), the foremost Chinese bibliographic scholar of his day and the founder of several excellent libraries. Chiangyin, Kiangsu, was the birthplace of Miao Ch'üan-sun. He was a sixth-generation descendent of Miao Sui (d. 1716), whose rule as magistrate of Tinghai, Chekiang, from 1695 until his death was so benevolent that the […]
Lo Chen-yü (3 August 1866-19 June 1940), an important Chinese classical scholar, archaeologist, and bibliographer, was a Manchu loyalist and a supporter of the Japanesesponsored regime in Manchoukuo. Although his native place was Shangyü, Chekiang, Lo Chen-yü was born in Huaian, Kiangsu. His father, Lo Shu-hsün (1842-1905; T. Yao-chin), opened a pawnshop in 1875 with […]
Li Yuan-hung 黎元洪 T. Sung-ch'ing 宋卿 H. Huang-p'i 黃坡 Li Yuan-hung (1864-3 June 1928), the only man to serve twice as president of the republican government at Peking T(June 1916-July 1917; June 1922-June 1923). Huangp'i, north of Hankow, was the birthplace of Li Yuan-hung. His ancestors, merchants from Anhwei, had settled in Hupeh as farmers. […]
Lao Nai-hsuan (r843-21 July 1921), government official, Neo-Confucian scholar, and historian known for his scholarly account of the origins of the Boxer movement. Although T'unghsiang, Chekiang, is often given as Lao Nai-hsuan's native place, his family had lived in Soochow, Kiangsu, since his paternal grandfather's day. Lao was born in the home of his maternal […]
K'ang Yu-wei (19 March 1858-31 March 1927), leader of the reform movement that culminated in the ill-fated Hundred Days Reform of 1898 and prominent scholar of the chin-wen [new text] school of the Confucian classics. The elder son of an expectant district magistrate, K'ang Yu-%vei was born in a village in Nanhai (Namhoi), a district […]
Chiang Tso-pin (1884-24 December 1942), a Hupeh military man and Peking government official who became the Chinese minister to Germany and Austria in 1928. From 1931 to 1936 he served as Chinese minister to Japan. Yingch'eng hsien in Hupeh province was the native place of Chiang Tso-pin. He received his early education in the traditional […]
Huang Hsing 黃興 Orig. Huang Chen 黃軫 T. K'o-ch'iang 克強 H. Chin-wu 廑午 Huang Hsing (28 October 1874-31 October 1916), revolutionary who founded the Hua-hsing-hui [society for the revival of China], which merged with other groups in 1905 to form the T'ung-meng-hui. Huang directed such uprisings as the Canton revolt of 27 April 1911. He […]
Huang K'an T. Chi-kang m Huang K'an (1886-8 October 1935), philologist and poet, noted for his studies of the Wen-hsin tiao-lung of Liu Hsieh and the Jih-chih-lu of Ku Yen-wu. Ch'ich'un, Hupeh, was the birthplace of Huang K'an. He was the youngest son of Huang Yun-ku, the salt and tea intendant, and later the acting […]
Ku Hung-ming (1857-30 April 1928), European-educated scholar and long-time subordinate of Chang Chih-tung who was known as a trenchant critic of the Westernization of China and a staunch defender of traditional Confucian values. The ancestors of Ku Hung-ming had come from T'ungan, Fukien, near Amoy. However, his family had resided for generations before his birth […]
