Yü Ta-wei (1899-), Western-educated scholar who served during the Sino-Japanese war as army ordnance director and vice minister of war. From 1946 to 1948 he was minister of communications. After serving in the Chinese embassy at Washington during the Korean war (1950-53), he was minister of national defense in Taiwan in 1954-64. Born into a […]

Fu Ssu-nien T. Meng-chen Fu Ssu-nien (26 March 1896-20 December 1950), was a leader in the May Fourth Movement who became a historian and an administrator of historical scholarship. He organized the Academia Sinica's institute of history and philology and served as its director for more than 20 years. He acted as director of the […]