The prominent businessman and politician in the early-20th-century Republic of China T. V. Soong had which brother-in-law who was born in 1887 and served as the leader of the Republic of China?
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T. V. Soong Soong Tse-ven or Soong Tzu-wen (; December 4, 1894 – April 26, 1971) was a prominent businessman and politician in the early-20th-century Republic of China. His father was Charlie Soong and his siblings were the Soong sisters. His Christian name was Paul, but he is generally known in English as T. V. Soong. As brother to the three Soong sisters, Soong's brothers-in-law were Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and financier H. H. Kung.
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Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975), also romanized as Chiang Chieh-shih and known as Chiang Chungcheng, was a Chinese statesman, political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China.
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Lee Ta-hai Lee Ta-Hai () (1919–1995) was a politician and businessman in the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan. A former executive of the Chinese Petroleum Corporation, Lee was Minister of Economic Affairs under President Chiang Ching-kuo and continued to advise the Republic of China government under Chiang's successor, Lee Teng-hui.
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Wang Jingwei Wang Jingwei (Wang Ching-wei; 4 May 1883 – 10 November 1944); born as Wang Zhaoming (Wang Chao-ming), but widely known by his pen name "Jingwei", was a Chinese politician. He was initially a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang (KMT), but later became increasingly anti-communist after his efforts to collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ended in political failure. His political orientation veered sharply to the right later in his career after he joined the Japanese.
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Lu Diping Lu Diping (1887–1935) was a Chinese military general and politician. Born in Ningxiang, Hunan province, he was a graduate of Hunan Military College and a participant in the Wuchang Uprising. He commanded the 2nd Army and the 18th Division. He was allied with Wang Jingwei and the left wing faction of the KMT. He was chairman of the governments of Hunan from 1928-29, Jiangxi from 1929-31 and Zhejiang from 1931-34, resigning from the latter post as a consequence of the murder of Shi Liangcai. Lu died on January 24, 1935 in Nanjing, China.
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Fang Zhichun Fang Zhichun () (September 11, 1905 – July 31, 1993) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was a cousin of Fang Zhimin. He was born in Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1924 and participated in the Nanchang Uprising of August 1927. In January 1928, along with his cousin and Huang Dao, he organized an uprising in Hengfeng County, Jiangxi Province. In 1937 he went to Yan'an, Shaanxi Province and in 1938 he went to the Soviet Union. After returning to China, he was arrested and imprisoned in Xinjiang by local warlord Sheng Shicai. In June 1946, he married Zhu Danhua, the widow of Mao Zedong's younger brother Mao Zemin, and became the stepfather Mao Zedong's nephew Mao Yuanxin.
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Ju Zheng Ju Zheng (; November 8, 1876 – November 23, 1951) was a Chinese politician who was a leader in the Chinese Nationalist Party, or KMT, in the 1930s and 1940s. As president of the Judicial Yuan, he administered China's court system from 1932 to 1948. He ran in the presidential election of 1948 as the token opponent of Chiang Kai-shek. He was also known by his courtesy name Juesheng (Chueh-sheng).
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Yang Xiufeng Yang Xiufeng (Chinese: 杨秀峰; Pinyin: "Yáng Xiùfēng"; February 24, 1897 – November 10, 1983) was a Chinese politician and the President of the Supreme People's Court of China.
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Soong Mei-ling Soong Mei-ling or Soong May-ling (; March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang, was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (ROC), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. Soong played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the founder and the leader of the Republic of China. She was active in the civic life of her country and held many honorary and active positions, including chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University. During the Second Sino-Japanese War she rallied her people against the Japanese invasion and in 1942 conducted a speaking tour of the United States to gain support. She was also the youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, and the only first lady during World War II (aside from Queen Elizabeth, 1900-2002) who lived into the 21st century. Her life extended into three centuries.
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Ding Wenjiang Ding Wenjiang (Chinese: 丁文江; March 20, 1887 – January 5, 1936), courtesy name Zaijun, was a Chinese geologist, polymath, writer, politician, administrator, and social activist, active especially in the Republic of China (1912–49). In his own time, his name was transcribed as either V.K. Ting, or Ting Wen-chiang.
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President of the Republic of China The President of the Republic of China () is the head of state of the Republic of China (ROC) and commander-in-chief of the Republic of China Armed Forces. The ROC was founded in 1912 in China. However, after the ROC lost control of mainland China, the government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan in the late 1940s. The existing office of President was created in 1948 under the 1947 Constitution of the Republic of China. The first president under the constitution was Chiang Kai-shek. Tsai Ing-wen succeeded Ma Ying-jeou on 20 May 2016 as the first female president in the nation's history.
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Deng Xihou Deng Xihou (; 1889–1964) was a Chinese general and politician.
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Liu Wencai Liu Wencai (; 1887 - 17 October 1949) was a Chinese landlord from Sichuan province, and brother of the warlord Liu Wenhui. During the Cultural Revolution, he was depicted as the archetype of the exploiter of peasant farmers.
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Serengdongrub Serengdongrub (17 February 1894 – 2 August 1980) was an Inner Mongolian politician in the Republic of China. An ethnic Mongol, he was a native of Harqin Middle Banner (today Ningcheng County, Chifeng).
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Rong Zongjing Rong Zongjing (; September 23, 1873 - 1938) was a Chinese industrialist from Wuxi, Jiangsu. He was the older brother of Rong Desheng and the uncle of Rong Yiren. Rong went to Shanghai at the age of fourteen and worked as an apprentice at a native bank. Rong started his own native bank in 1896 with his father and brother, and then established a flour milling and textile empire in China that employed tens of thousands of workers.
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Wang Ch'ung-hui Wang Ch'ung-hui (1881–1958) was a prominent Chinese jurist, diplomat and politician who served the Republic of China from its foundation in 1912 until his death in 1958. He was a close associate of the republic's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, an active member of the Kuomintang ("Chinese Nationalist Party"), and a judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice in the Hague.
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1887 in China Events in the year 1887 in China.
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Zhang Dingcheng Zhang Dingcheng (; December 1898 – December 16, 1981) was a politician of the People's Republic of China.
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Peng Shuzhi Peng Shuzhi (also spelled Peng Shu-tse; Chinese: "Péng Shùzhī" 彭述之; 1896–1983) was an early leader of the Communist Party of China and became a Trotskyist.
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Li Jishen Li Jishen (; 5 November 1885 – 9 October 1959) was a Chinese military commander and statesman. He served as commander of the Fourth Army of the Republic of China, governor of Guangdong, military affairs commissioner, and acting president of the Whampoa Military Academy. After opposing Chiang Kai-shek and being expelled from the Kuomintang in 1947, he became one of the six Vice Chairmen of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China with that government's founding on October 1, 1949.
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Ni Zhiliang Ni Zhiliang () (October 1900 – December 15, 1965) was a People's Republic of China diplomat and People's Liberation Army lieutenant general. He was the 1st People's Republic of China Ambassador to North Korea (1950–1952). He joined the Communist Party of China in October 1926 and participated in the Guangzhou Uprising. In May 1928, he went to the border region of Hubei, Henan and Anhui. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was a member of the Eighth Route Army, serving in Shanxi, Hebei and Henan. In October 1945 he went to Northeast China. He died in Beijing.
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T'ang Leang-Li T'ang Leang-Li or Tang Liangli (traditional Chinese: 湯良禮 ; simplified Chinese: 汤良礼 ; pinyin: Tāng Liánglǐ) (1901–1970) was a journalist and politician in the Republic of China. He was an important politician during the Wang Jingwei regime (Republic of China-Nanjing). He was an overseas Chinese who was born in Java, Indonesia, and whose family place of origin was Fujian. His Indonesian name was Tubagus Pranata Tirtawidjaya.