Chu Chia-hua (30 May 1893-3 January 1963), held office in the National Government as minister of education (1932-33; 1944-48), minister of communications (1932-35), and vice president of the Examination Yuan (1941-44). From 1939 to May 1944 he headed the organization department of the Kuomintang. He also served as secretary general (1936-38) and acting president (1940-58) […]
Tseng Chung-ming (1 March 1896-22 March 1939), scholar and official who was a long-time associate of Wang Ching-wei (q.v.). He was killed at Hanoi in 1939 by assassins whose intended victim may well have been Wang. Born into a scholarly but impoverished family at Foochow, Tseng Chung-ming was brought up by his widowed mother and […]
Yu Yu-jen (11 April 1879-10 November 1964), scholar, T'ung-meng-hui revolutionary, poet, journalist, army commander, government official, and calligrapher. He first gained prominence as the editor of such anti-Manchu newspapers as the Alin-li pao. From 1930 until his death in 1964 he was president of the Control Yuan. Sanyuan, Shensi, was the birthplace of Yü Yu-jen. […]
Hsü Ch'ien (26 June 1871-26 September 1940), scholar and legal expert who helped reform the judicial system (1907) and who became one of the most prominent leaders in the Wuhan regime (1926-27). Although his native place was Shehsien, Anhwei, Hsü Ch'ien was born in Nanchang, Kiangsi. He had one brother, Hsü Sun (T. Feng-jen). His […]
T'ang Sheng-chih (31 October 1890 ?-), Hunanese militarist whose successes against Wu P'ei-fu were of major importance to the first stage of the Northern Expedition. He dominated Hupeh, Hunan, and southern Honan in 1927, and he was for a time the most powerful man in the National Government at Wuhan. His military career after 1928 […]
Shu Ch'ing-ch'un (3 February 1899-October 1966), known as Lao She, novelist and shortstory writer with a flair for using the Peking dialect in a comic-satiric vein. During and after the Sino-Japanese war he also wrote propaganda plays. He was known by Americans as the author of Rickshaw Boy, an unauthorized and bowdlerized translation of his […]
Lu Chung-lin (1884-), military officer and long-time subordinate of Feng Yü-hsiang who became minister of w^ar at Nanking in 1929. When the northern coalition collapsed and the command structure of the Kuominchün disintegrated in 1930, he broke with Feng. He later served the National Government as minister of conscription and the Central People's Government as […]
Li Shih-tseng 李石曾 Orig. Li Yü-ying 李煜瀛 Li Shih-tseng (1881-), leader of the work-study movement in France who became known as one of the "four elder statesmen of the Kuomintang." Although his native place was Kaoyang, Chihli (Hopei), Li Shih-tseng was born in Peking. He and his elder brother, Li Kun-ying, were the sons of […]
Huang Shao-ku (24 July 1 90 1-), journalist and politician, was secretary general in Feng Yühsiang's headquarters in 1928 and Feng's representative at the so-called enlarged conference of 1930. He served under Chang Chih-chung as an administrative commissioner in Hunan and as chief of the third office of the Military Council's political department. From 1943 […]
Feng Yü-hsiang 馮御香 (馮玉祥) Orig. Feng Chi-shan 馮基善 T. Huan-chang 煅章 Feng Yü-hsiang (1882-1 September 1948), military leader known as the Christian General, built up a formidable personal army, the Kuominchün, and dominated much of north China until his power was broken in 1930. Although his native place was Chaohsien, Anhwei, Feng Yü-hsiang was born […]
