Chu Chia-hua (30 May 1893-3 January 1963), held office in the National Government as minister of education (1932-33; 1944-48), minister of communications (1932-35), and vice president of the Examination Yuan (1941-44). From 1939 to May 1944 he headed the organization department of the Kuomintang. He also served as secretary general (1936-38) and acting president (1940-58) […]
Cheng T'ien-hsi (10 July 1884-), known as F. T. Cheng, the first Chinese to receive the LL.D. degree in England, became vice minister of justice at Nanking (1931-34) and a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague ( 1 936-46) . From 1 946 to 1 950 he was ambassador to […]
Chang Ch'ün (1899-), prominent member of the Kuomintang, was a close friend of Chiang Kai-shek and of Huang Fu (q.v.). As minister of foreign affairs in 1935-37, he played an important role in China's relations with Japan. He served as secretary general of the Supreme National Defense Council (1938-42) and as wartime governor of Szechwan […]
Soong, T. V. Orig. Sung Tzu-wen 宋子文 T. V. Soong (4 December 1894-), Harvard-trained financier who was the prime mover in the establishment of a modern financial system in China. He served the National Government in such capacities as minister of finance, vice president and president of the Executive Yuan, governor of the Central Bank […]
Ch'ien Tuan-sheng (25 February 1900-), political scientist, wrote major works on Chinese constitutional theory and government, notably The Government and Politics of China. Harvardtrained, Ch'ien was an independent intellectual as well as influential educator and dean of the law school of National Peking University. He opposed Kuomintang policies and in 1949 welcomed the Communist regime, […]
Shao Li-tzu (1882-29 December 1967), teacher and journalist who became a veteran leader of the Kuomintang. He served as governor of Shensi in 1933-36 and as ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1940-41. After 1949 Shao held a variety of posts in the People's Republic of China. The son of a government official, Shao Li-tzu […]
Lin Ch'ang-min (16 July 1876-December 1925), scholar and government official who devoted his life to the development of constitutionalism and parliamentary government in China. He met an untimely end after joining Kuo Sungling at the time of Kuo's 1925 revolt against Chang Tso-lin. Although he was born in Hangchow, Lin Ch'ang-min was a native of […]
Fan Wen-Ian (1891-), the most prominent Marxist historian in Communist China and the director of the institute for the study of modern history of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Peking. Little is known of Fan Wen-lan's family background or his childhood except that his native place was Shaohsing, Chekiang, and that he was a […]
Ch'en Li-fu 陳立夫 Ch'en Li-fu (1900-) directed the investigation division of the Kuomintang for about a decade after 1928. He served as secretary general of the Kuomintang central headquarters (1929-31), head of the organization department (1932-36; 1938-39; 1944-48), and minister of education (1938-44). He and his brother, Ch'en Kuo-fu, were known as the leaders of […]
