Qian Yongming

Ch'ien Yung-ming (1885-19 June 1958), financier, spent much of his career in the service of the Bank of Communications, of which he became chairman of the board of directors. After 1928 he held various economic posts in the National Government. He also rehabilitated the Chung-hsing Coal Mining Company, which became the second-largest colliery in China, […]

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Zhou Yichun

Chou I-ch'un (1883-30 August 1948), known as Y. T. Tsur, educator, public administrator, and government official. He was the principal of Tsinghua College from 1913 to 1918. He held office as a Senator (191 8-20) , as secretary general of the financial readjustment commission (192324), and as executive director of the China Foundation for the […]

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Yu Rizhang

Yu Jih-chang (25 November 1882-22 January 1936), known as David Yui, general secretary of the YMCA in China from 1916 to 1932. The son of a Christian minister in Hupeh, David Yui received his early education in the Chinese classics at Wuchang and his higher education at two mission institutions, Boone University at Wuchang and […]

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Xu Mo

Hsü Mo (1893-28 June 1956), lawyer and political scientist, played a key role in the planning and administration of Chinese foreign policy from 1932 to 1941 and served on the International Court of Justice from 1946 until his death; Born into a family of modest means in Soochow, Kiangsu, Hsü Mo received his early education […]

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Xu Qian

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 […]

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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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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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Pu Yi

P'u-yi (1906-17 October 1967), the last Manchu emperor. Born in Peking, P'u-yi was the son of Tsaifeng, the second Prince Ch'un and the nephew of the Kuang-hsü emperor. As the emperor neared death in 1908, some members of the Manchu hierarchy pressed the claims of P'u-lun and P'u-wei, older great-grandsons of the Taokuang Emperor in […]

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Lu Zhengxiang

Lu Cheng-hsiang (1871-15 January 1949), diplomat and cleric, entered the Chinese foreign service in 1 892 as an interpreter assigned to the legation at St. Petersburg. He became minister to the Netherlands in 1908 and minister to Russia in 1911. After the republic was established, he served the Peking government at various times as minister […]

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