Tung Pi-wu (1886-), Chinese Communist liaison officer with the Kuomintang (1936-45) and the only Communist member of the Chinese delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945. After 1949 he held such high posts at Peking as vice premier, president of the Supreme People's Court, vice chairman of the People's Republic of […]

Ch'eng Ch'ien (1882-), Hunanese general, served Sun Yat-sen in many military campaigns. Later, he became commander of the Sixth Army of the National Revolutionary Army (1926) and of the Fourth Route armies (1927). He later held such positions as chief of the general staff (1935), commander of the First War Area (1937), and governor of […]

Ch'eng She-wo (28 August 1898-), prominent newspaper publisher, founded and developed such papers as the Shih-chieh jih-pao [world daily news], the Min-sheng pao [people's livelihood newspaper], and the Li-pao [stand-up journal]. In 1947 he became a member of the Legislative Yuan. He founded World Journalism Junior College in Taipei in 1956. Although his ancestral home […]

Ch'u Min-i (1884-23 August 1946), a close associate of Wang Ching-wei, served under Wang as secretary general of the Executive Yuan (1932-35) and as minister of foreign affairs in Wang's Japanese-sponsored government. He was executed as a "national traitor" in 1946. A native of Wuhsing, Chekiang, Ch'u Min-i was born into a scholar-official family. He […]

Ch'en Kuo-fu 陳果夫 Ch'en Kuo-fu (27 October 1892 - 25 August 1951) directed the organization department of the Kuomintang (1926-32; 1944) and created a closely knit organizational structure for the party. He was acting head of the Control Yuan (1928-32), governor of Kiangsu (1933-37), and he directed the department that selected personnel for the government […]

Ch'en Chin-t'ao 陳錦濤 Ch'en Chin-t'ao (1870 - June 1939) held numerous public finance posts under the Ch'ing government and under both the northern and southern governments of the early republican period, including the positions of financial commissioner in London and minister of finance. He ended his career as minister of finance (1938-39) in the Japanese-sponsored […]

Ch'en Chiung-ming 陳炯明 Ch'en Chiung-ming (13 January 1878 - 22 September 1933) was an anti-Manchu revolutionary who became an early republican governor of Kwangtung. After Yuan Shih-k'ai deposed him in 1913, he participated in the anti-Yuan campaigns and then headed the forces of Sun Yatsen's constitution protection movement. In October 1920 he occupied Canton, and […]

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 […]

Ch'en Ch'i-mei 陳其美 Ch'en Ch'i-mei (1876-18 May 1916), anti- Manchu revolutionary, early patron of Chiang Kai-shek, and supporter of Sun Yat-sen, recruited men and directed such uprisings as the capture of Shanghai in November 1911. During and after the so-called second revolution he opposed and organized maneuvers against Yuan Shih-k'ai. Yuan had him assassinated in […]

Ts'ai O (18 December 1882-8 November 1916), able and scholarly Hunanese military commander who served as military governor of Yunnan after the revolution. In 1913-15 he held posts at Peking while laying plans for a revolt against Yuan Shih-k'ai, who hoped to become monarch. The anti-Yuan campaign began at Yunnan in December 1915 and ended […]