Chi Ch'ao-ting (12 October 1903-9 August 1963), noted as an expert in economics, particularly in currency, banking, and international trade. He was converted to Communism while a student in the United States and took part in radical activities. In 1940 he became secretary general of the Currency Stabilization Board, serving under K. P. Ch'en. He […]
Tung Hsien-kuang (9 November 1887-), known as Hollington Tong, American-trained journalist and biographer of Chiang Kai-shek who served during the Sino-Japanese war as vice minister of information at Chungking and a principal source of news for Western correspondents stationed there. Tong served as Chinese Nationalist ambassador in Japan from 1952 to 1956 and in the […]
Ch'en Yi 陳儀 Ch'en Yi (1883 - 18 June 1950), governor of Fukien (1934-41) and of Chekiang (1948-49) who, as first Chinese government administrator in Taiwan after 1945, launched a brutal suppression campaign against the Taiwanese when an island-wide revolt against his administration threatened to break out. He was executed as a Communist conspirator for […]
Ch'en Kuang-fu 陳光甫 K. P. Chen Ch'en Kuang-fu (1880-), known as K. P. Ch'en, banker, founded and developed the Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank, using modern Western methods. He played an important Tole as representative of the National Government in negotiations with the United States regarding silver purchases (1936) and economic aid to China. He […]
Ch'en Kuo-fu 陳果夫 Ch'en Kuo-fu (27 October 1892 - 25 August 1951) directed the organization department of the Kuomintang (1926-32; 1944) and created a closely knit organizational structure for the party. He was acting head of the Control Yuan (1928-32), governor of Kiangsu (1933-37), and he directed the department that selected personnel for the government […]
Ch'en Chin-t'ao 陳錦濤 Ch'en Chin-t'ao (1870 - June 1939) held numerous public finance posts under the Ch'ing government and under both the northern and southern governments of the early republican period, including the positions of financial commissioner in London and minister of finance. He ended his career as minister of finance (1938-39) in the Japanese-sponsored […]
Ch'en Li-fu 陳立夫 Ch'en Li-fu (1900-) directed the investigation division of the Kuomintang for about a decade after 1928. He served as secretary general of the Kuomintang central headquarters (1929-31), head of the organization department (1932-36; 1938-39; 1944-48), and minister of education (1938-44). He and his brother, Ch'en Kuo-fu, were known as the leaders of […]
Ch'en Po-ta 陳伯達 Ch'en Po-ta (1905-) was known as one of the Chinese Communist party's leading spokesmen on international Communist affairs and the interpreter of the political thought of Mao Tse-tung in such works as Mao Tse-tung on the Chinese Revolution. He drafted many of the editorials in the Jen-min jih-pao [people's daily] and edited […]
Wang Ching-wei 汪精衛 Orig. Wang Chao-ming 汪兆銘 Wang Ching-wei (4 May 1883-10 November 1944), Kuomintang leader and intimate political associate of Sun Yat-sen. At the time of the Sino-Japanese war, after more than a decade of feuding with Chiang Kai-shek for top authority in the Kuomintang, Wang became head of a Japanese-sponsored regime established at […]
