Chu Hsueh-fan (5 October 1 901—), labor leader. Chairman of the Kuomintang-sponsored General Labor Union in 1928, he later headed the Chinese Association of Labor and often represented China at international labor meetings. He started cooperating with the Chinese Communists in early 1948, and in 1949 he became minister of posts and telegraphs at Peking! […]

Tsou T'ao-fen (5 November 1895-24 July 1944), journalist known for his editorship (1926-33) of the Sheng-huo chou-kan [life weekly] and for his leadership in the national salvation movement. After working at Chungking in support of the Chinese war effort, he went to Hong Kong in 1941 because of difficulties with Kuomintang press censorship. He spent […]

Chang Nai-ch'i (1897-), banking official, economist, and politician, was one of the founders of the National Salvation Association nucleus in Shanghai in 1936 and of the Democratic National Construction Association in Chungking in 1945. From 1952 to 1957 he was minister of food at Peking; then he came under censure as a rightist and was […]

Wang Tsao-shih (1903-), a leader of" the National Salvation Association who gained national prominence as one of the Ch'i-chuntzu [seven gentlemen] arrested by the National Government in November 1936 for advocating formation of a united front with the Chinese Communists against the Japanese. Little is known about Wang Tsao-shih's family background or early years except […]

Ma Hsü-lun ( 27 April 1884-), educator, revolutionary, and government official, was a professor of Chinese philosophy at Peking University in 1916-36. He became sympathetic to the Communist cause during the Sino- Japanese war, and he was named minister of education when the Central People's Government was established in 1949. From 1952 to 1954 he […]

Lo Lung-chi (1896-7 December 1965), Westerneducated political scientist who gained prominence in China as the editor of the I-shih pao and the Peking Ch'en Pao. During the Sino-Japanese war he became prominent in the China Democratic League. After 1949, he served the Central People's Government, becoming minister of timber industry in 1956. As a senior […]

Ch'en Chia-keng 陳嘉庚 Alt. Tan Kah Kee Ch'en Chia-keng (1874 - 12 August 1961 ) , known as Tan Kah Kee, Singapore rubber and shipping entrepreneur, used his profits to found Amoy University, which he singlehandedly supported for 15 years, and other schools in his native village of Chimei, Fukien. During the Sino- Japanese war, […]