Chang Chi-luan 張季鸾 Orig. Chang Ch'ih-chang 張熾章 Chang Chi-luan (20 March 1888-6 September 1941), editor of the leading newspaper Ta Kung Pao, was a pioneer advocate of freedom in reporting and in expressing editorial opinion in the Chinese press. Although Chang Chi-luan was born in Tsoup'ing hsien, Shantung province, his family's ancestral home was in […]
Chang Chih-chung (1891-), military commander and government official, Nationalist general and dean of the Central Military Academy, became governor of Hunan in 1937, but lost the position after the misjudged burning of Changsha. In 1940 he became secretary general of the San Min Chu I Youth Corps. From 1945-49 he was director of the Generalissimo's […]
Yolbars (1888-), Uighur leader who opposed the oppressive administrations of Chin Shu-jen and Sheng Shih-ts'ai (qq.v.) in Sinkiang. After holding office in the National Government at Nanking and Chungking, he returned to Sinkiang to lead guerrilla forces against the Chinese Communists. The National Government appointed him governor of Sinkiang in April 1950. He retained that […]
Osman (1899-April 1951), was a Kirei Kazakh military leader. He was executed in 1951 for opposing the Chinese Communists. A Kazakh of the Kirei tribe, Osman was born in an encampment in the Altai region of northeast Sinkiang. The Kazakhs of Sinkiang were nomadic herdsmen, and Osman received his basic Islamic education in various encampments. […]
Wu Chung-hsin (15 March 1884-16 December 1959), military and political associate of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek who served as governor of Anhwei (1932) and Kweichow (1935), chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (1936-44), and governor of Sinkiang (1944-45). Ancestors of Wu Chung-hsin had moved from Kiangsi to Lochiakang in the northern part […]
Saifudin (c. 1914-), Uighur political leader who served the so-called East Turkestan Republic as minister of education and head of the Hi youth organization. In December 1949 he became vice chairman of the Sinkiang provincial government, and in February 1950 he joined the Chinese Communist party. He was elected chairman of the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous […]
Jen Pi-shih (1904-27 October 1950), Chinese Communist political worker and close associate of Mao Tse-tung, rose to the top rank of the Chinese Communist party hierarchy in the early 1940's as a member of the Political Bureau and the Secretariat and head of the Central Committee's organization department. Hsiangyin, Hunan, was the birthplace of Jen […]
Ma Chung-ying (1911- ? ), Chinese Muslim military leader, took part in the 1931 rebellion of Muslims in Sinkiang against Chinese rule. In 1933 his cavalry forces again attempted to remove Chinese authority from the area, but were pushed into southern Sinkiang by White Russian forces. Ma entered the Soviet Union in July 1934 and […]
Masud Sabri (1886-April 1951), Uighur educational reformer in Sinkiang who served the National Government in the 1930's and 1940's. He was governor of Sinkiang in 1947-48. Because he refused to support the People's Republic of China, he was arrested and executed in 1951. Born into a Uighur family in the Hi district of northwest Sinkiang, […]
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 […]
