Zhang Xueliang

Chang Hsueh-liang 張學良 T. Han-ch'ing 漢卿 Chang Hsueh-liang (1898-), known as the Young Marshal, was the son of Chang Tso-lin (q.v.), from whom he inherited control of Manchuria in 1928. In 1936, Chang Hsueh-liang detained Chiang Kai-shek at Sian in an attempt to persuade the National Government to form a united front with the Chinese […]

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Yu Dawei

Yü Ta-wei (1899-), Western-educated scholar who served during the Sino-Japanese war as army ordnance director and vice minister of war. From 1946 to 1948 he was minister of communications. After serving in the Chinese embassy at Washington during the Korean war (1950-53), he was minister of national defense in Taiwan in 1954-64. Born into a […]

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Yan Huiqing

Yen Hui-ch'ing T. Chün-jen West. W. W. Yen Yen Hui-ch'ing (2 April 1877-23 May 1950), known as W. W. Yen, American-trained scholar, government official, and diplomat. He served as ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1933 to 1936. Shanghai was the birthplace of W. W. Yen. Both of his parents were Christians. His father, the […]

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Wang Pengheng

Wang P'eng-sheng (5 March 1893-17 May 1946), leading Kuomintang expert on Japanese affairs. During the war years in Chungking, he headed the Military Affairs Commission's institute of international relations, an intelligence-gathering body. He was closely associated with Tai Li (q.v.). A native of Liling hsien, Hunan, Wang P'engsheng was the son of a scholar, Wang […]

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Wang Zhengting

Wang Cheng-t'ing (25 July 1882-21 May 1961), known as C. T. Wang, minister of foreign affairs and one-time acting premier of the Peking government in the early 1920's. He served as minister of foreign affairs in the National Government in 1928-31. In 1937-38 he was ambassador to the United States. Fenghua, Chekiang, was the birthplace […]

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Wang Chonghui

Wang Ch'ung-hui 王寵惠 T. Liang-ch'ou 亮疇 Wang Ch'ung-hui (1881-15 March 1958), foreign minister in the provisional republican government in 1912. He subsequently held various ministerial posts and served briefly as acting premier at Peking in 1922. He later was president of the Judicial Yuan (1928-30; 1948-57), foreign minister (1937-40), and secretary general of the Supreme […]

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Shi Zhaoji

Shih Chao-chi (10 April 1877-3 January 1958), known as Sao-ke Alfred Sze, diplomat who became Chinese minister to the Court of St. James's in 1914 and who spent most of the rest of his life outside China. In addition to serving as China's chief envoy to Great Britain and the United States, he was plenipotentiary […]

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Luo Wengan

Lo Wen-kan (1888-16 October 1941), Oxfordtrained barrister who served the Peking government as minister of justice and chief justice of the Supreme Court and the National Government as minister of justice and minister of foreign affairs. He retired from public life in 1935. I Panyü, Kwangtung, was the birthplace of Lo Wen-kan. After receiving his […]

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Gu Weijun

Ku Wei-chun (1887-), known as V. K. Wellington Koo, distinguished diplomat who made significant contributions to the formation and early years of the League of Nations and the United Nations and who also represented China as ambassador to France, Great Britain, and the United States. From 1957 to 1967 he served on the International Court […]

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Guo Taiqi

Kuo T'ai-ch'i (1889-29 February 1952), known as Quo Tai-chi, government official and diplomat who was best known as China's envoy to Great Britain (1932-41) and as a delegate to the League of Nations (1932-38). He bore much of the responsibility for formulating foreign policy at Chungking from 1941 to 1946. After serving as a delegate […]

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