Wei Tao-ming

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Wei Tao-ming
魏道明
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
1966–1971
1st Chairman of Taiwan Provincial Government
In office
16 May 1947 – 5 January 1949
Preceded byChen Yi (as Chief Executive of Taiwan Province
Succeeded byChen Cheng
ROC Ambassador to United States
In office
1942–1946
Preceded byHu Shih
Succeeded byWellington Koo
Personal details
Born28 October 1899
Dehua, Jiujiang,
Republic of China

Wei Tao-ming (

People's Republic of China sought to oust the ROC from the United Nations. He was also civilian Governor of Taiwan Province (1947–1949), replacing Governor General Chen Yi
.

Wei enlisted USA help to support Taiwan and oppose the Chinese communists.

Early life

Wei Tao-ming was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province in 1899. His father, Wei Tiao-yuan, was an educator and member of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement. Wei Tao-ming's early schooling was at a missionary school, though he graduated from Kiangsi (Jiangxi) First Middle School in 1918. He then studied French in Beijing for a year before moving to France in 1919. He obtained his doctorate in law from the University of Paris in 1926 and returned to China to pursue a legal career in Shanghai.[1]

He was married to

Qing imperial court and the Republicans. She advocated women having their own voices and choices in marriage, and wrote it into the Republic of China's law. Her autobiography, My Revolutionary Years (1944), was published while her husband was Ambassador to the United States
, and is revered as one of the best first hand accounts of modern Chinese history.

Political career

Wei Tao-ming

He became involved with the Kuomintang. At the age of 29, Wei became president of the Judicial Yuan. From 1930 to 1931, Wei served as mayor of special municipality of Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China.

Wei was among the Nationalist government insiders implicated in corruption during the 1942-1943 American Dollar Bond scandal.

fabi in an effort to curb inflation.[2]: 73  In theory, Chinese purchasers would use fabi to buy bonds at the official exchange rate and be paid in dollars when the bonds were redeemed following victory over Japan.[2]: 73  The American Dollar Bonds were issued on March 24, 1942.[2]: 73  The public response was poor, with few bond sales.[2]: 74  In October 1943, H.H. Kung sent a secret memorandum to Chiang Kai-shek asking that the bond sales end.[2]: 74  Subscriptions were closed on October 15, 1943 and a central bank official falsely announced that all bonds had been sold.[2]: 74  Secretly, insiders then purchased the remaining bonds using currency acquired on the black market.[2]: 74  The result was a windfall for Nationalist government insiders including Wei, Kung, Long Yun, members of the Soong family, and others.[2]
: 74 

As Ambassador to the

New York Times, and he accompanied Soong Mei-ling during her visits to Washington, D.C., and New York. He resigned from his post in October 1945, citing personal reasons, and was succeeded by Wellington Koo
, then Ambassador to the Court of St. James.

Wei's wife Zheng Yuxiu

Calship
building.

During his tenure as Governor of

Chen Tsyr-shiou
).

After the Chinese Communist Revolution, Wei spent some time in Hong Kong, then made his way back to Taiwan.

Wei served as foreign minister of the

People's Republic of China. He resigned due to health reasons in 1971 as Beijing's campaign to oust the ROC from the United Nations
was on the verge of succeeding.

He died in Taipei on May 18, 1978, at the age 79.

References

  1. ^ "Vice President Yen Asked to Carry on as Premier - Taiwan Info". Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  2. ^ .

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by China's Ambassador to the United States
1942–1946
Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by
none
Governor of Taiwan

1947–1949
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by ROC Foreign Minister
1966–1971
Succeeded by