Hu Wen-hu (16 January 1893-4 September I954j, known as Aw Boon Haw, overseas Chinese entrepreneur, newspaper publisher, and philanthropist who made a fortune in pharmaceuticals. Although Aw Boon Haw was born in Rangoon, his native place was Yungting hsien, a Hakka-speaking district in western Fukien. In 1862 his father, Aw Chi Ching (Hu Tzu-ch'in), had […]

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 […]