Wu Heling

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In this Chinese name, the family name is 吳 (Wu).
Wu Heling
ᠦᠨᠡᠨᠪᠠᠶᠠᠷ
Wu in 1934
President of the House of Counselors of Mengjiang
In office
October 1937 – September 1939
Personal details
Born1896
Hanyu Pinyin
Méixuān
Wade–GilesMei-hsuen
Southern Min
Hokkien POJMûi-hian

Wu Heling (

Republic of China. He was born in Harqin Right Banner, Josutu League (now Harqin Banner, Chifeng), Inner Mongolia. His Mongolian name was Ünenbayal.[a][2] He was ethnic Mongol, and participated in the Mongolian Autonomous Movement. Heling became an important politician in the Mongolian United Autonomous Government
and the Mongolian Autonomous Federation (蒙古自治邦).

Early life and education

Wu graduated from the

Beiyang Government. He also provided support to jasagh Gungsangnorbu of Harqin Right Banner at the office for Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs. At that time, he also worked at Beijing Normal University and was vice-secretary-general of the Beijing Young Christian Association. He graduated from Peking University in 1926, and not long after joined the Kuomintang
.

Political career

In April 1929 Wu was appointed chief of the office for Mongolian Banner to Beiping, and Counselor of the

National Government. The following January he transferred to the position of Chief Office for Mongolian Affairs of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission. In June 1932 he returned to his old job as the Counselor of the Commission. In March 1934 he was appointed a member of the Mongol Local Autonomy Political Affairs Committee
and of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission. In September he was appointed Chief of Counselor of the Counseling Agency, Mongolian Local Autonomy Political Council.

In May 1936 Yondonwangchug and Demchugdongrub established Mengjiang, in which Wu also participated: he was appointed Director of the Counseling Bureau and Sub-General (參議部部長兼總裁幫辦) and to other positions. In October 1937 he was appointed President of the House of Counselors of Mengjiang. In September 1939 he became Counselor of the House of Counselors in that government. He was promoted to the position of Chairman of the House the following year. In 1941 he was appointed President of the House for Political Affairs, Mongolian Autonomous Federation. Later he also sat as President of the Preparatory School for Studying in Japan.

After the Mongolian Autonomous Federation collapsed, Wu returned to Chiang Kai-shek's National Government, and was appointed Chief of the Advertising Association of the Military Commission. In 1949 he participated in the Western Mongolian Autonomous Movement; after the failure of this movement, he escaped to Taiwan.

Wu died in 1980 in Taichung, Taiwan.

Notes

  1. ^ Mongolian: ᠦᠨᠡᠨᠪᠠᠶᠠᠷ, Унэнбаяр

References

  1. ^ According to Xu 2007, p. 651 and Mongolian Culture Web. Asahi Shimbun 1941, p. 51 has 1895. The China Weekly Review 1936, p. 261 has 1894.
  2. Chinese characters as 烏尼伯英; see for example Xu 2007
    , p. 651.

Bibliography

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