Tang Shaoyi

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  • Tang Shaoyi
  • 唐紹儀
Xuantong Emperor
Prime MinisterYikuang, Prince Qing
Preceded bySheng Xuanhuai
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born(1862-01-02)2 January 1862
Hanyu Pinyin
Táng Shàoyí
Wade–GilesT'ang2 Shao4-i2
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationTòhng Siuh Yìh
JyutpingTong4 Siu6 Ji4

Tang Shaoyi (Chinese: 唐紹儀; 2 January 1862 – 30 September 1938), also spelled Tong Shao Yi, courtesy name Shaochuan (少川), was a Chinese statesman who briefly served as the first Premier of the Republic of China in 1912. In 1938, he was assassinated by the staff of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics in Shanghai.

Early life

Tang was a native of

Qing government.[2] Tong was a classmate and close friend of future Columbia president Nicholas Murray Butler.[3]

Career

Tang Shaoyi

Tang was a friend of

Wu Tingfang, ending up with the recognition of Yuan as President of the Republic of China. He had been a diplomat with Yuan Shikai's staff in Korea.[1] In 1900, he was appointed head of the Shandong Bureau of Foreign Affairs under governor Yuan Shikai.[1]

Widely respected, he became the Republic's first

Prime Minister in 1912, but quickly grew disillusioned with Yuan's lack of respect for the rule of law and resigned.[4] He later took part in Sun Yat-sen's government in Guangzhou. Tang Shaoyi opposed, on constitutional grounds, Sun's taking of the "Extraordinary Presidency" in 1921; Tang resigned from his position. In 1924, he refused an offer to be foreign minister under warlord Duan Qirui's provisional government in Beijing
.

Assassination

In 1937, Tang bought a house on

Juntong learned about the negotiation, and its chief Dai Li ordered his assassination. On 30 September 1938, Tang was killed in his living room by a Juntong squad who pretended to be antique sellers.[6]

Family

Tang Shaoyi's daughter Tang Baoyue (English name May Tang) was married to the prominent diplomat

1918 flu pandemic, after falling ill for only a week.[7] Another daughter Lora Tang was married to the well-known Singapore philanthropist Lee Seng Gee, former chairman of the Lee Foundation
. Another daughter from his first wife, Isobel, was married to Henry K. Chang (Chang Chien), the Chinese Ambassador and Consul General at San Francisco (1929).[8]

References

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  2. ^ Columbia University. Office of the President (1891). Annual report. Columbia University Libraries. [New York : The University].
  3. ^ "Columbia and China in History | Columbia Global Centers". globalcenters.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
  4. ^ John Stuart Thomson (1913). China revolutionized. INDIANAPOLIS: The Bobbs-Merrill company. p. 105.
  5. ^ 武康路与民国第一任总理唐绍仪血案 [Wukang Road and the assassination of Tang Shaoyi] (in Chinese). China.com.cn. 22 November 2012. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
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Government offices
Preceded by
New title
Premier of the Republic of China
1912
Succeeded by