Zhang Qun

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang/Chang.
Zhang Qun
張羣
Hubei Province
In office
7 July 1933 – 17 December 1935
Mayor of Shanghai
In office
1 April 1929 – 6 January 1932
Personal details
Born(1889-05-09)9 May 1889
Republic of China
Political partyKuomintang
Alma materBaoding Military Academy
AwardsOrder of National Glory
Order of Blue Sky and White Sun
Order of Chiang Chung-Cheng
Order of Brilliant Star
Order of the Three Stars
Zhang Qun
Hanyu Pinyin
Zhāng Qún
Wade–GilesChang Ch'ün

Zhang Qun[a] (May 9, 1889 – December 14, 1990), was a Chinese politician and premier of the Republic of China and a prominent member of the Kuomintang. He served as secretary general to the President of the Republic from 1954 to 1972 and senior advisor to Presidents Chiang Kai-shek, Yen Chia-kan, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Lee Teng-hui. Under the influence of his wife, Ma Yu-ying, he became a Christian in the 1930s.[2]

Education and early career

Born in the Huayang County (now part of

Qing monarchy in 1911. During this period, a lifelong friendship between the two men[who?] and Huang Fu
was formed and the three became sworn, or blood, brothers. Chang married Ma Yu-ying (馬育英) in 1913; because their first child was born in 1917, he later joked to have practiced family planning long before it became popular.

When

foreign minister. In the KMT, he led the Political Science Clique (政學系), which included military men such as Huang Fu and Xiong Shihui (熊式輝), intellectuals, such as Yang Yongtai and Wang Chonghui, and bankers and industrialists, including Wu Dingchang (吳鼎昌) and Chang Kia-ngau. During World War II, he served as secretary general of the National Security Council and governor of Sichuan
province.

Post-war career

In 1946, Chang, representing the national government, was a member of the Committee of Three (also known as the Marshall Mission) along with General George C. Marshall, then head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Chinese Communist Party representative Zhou Enlai, which had been established in Nanjing in January 1946 to effect a Kuomintang-Communist truce and head off civil war. The Marshall Mission helped to bring about a temporary ceasefire, but its plans for a political-military settlement did not succeed.[2]

In 1947, Chang headed the first coalition government as president of the

People's Republic of China. His last official position was chairman of the Presidium of the Kuomintang's Central Advisory Committee.[2]

George Marshall and Communist representative Zhou Enlai
.

Personal life

A member of the board of the

Prime Minister Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni
died until his own death, Chang was the world's oldest living former head of government.

Chang's wife, Ma Yu-ying (馬育英; pinyin: Ma Yuying), was a devout Christian and died in 1974. His daughter, Yalan Chang Lew (劉張亞蘭; pinyin: Liu Zhang Yalan), died on July 14, 2014, at age 97 in Seattle, US; she was the widow of Ambassador Yu-tang Daniel Lew (劉毓棠; pinyin: Liu Yutang), who had died in 2005 at age 92 in Taipei. His son, Dr. Philip Chi-cheng Chang (

Central Bank of China 1984-89. His second son, Rev. Dr. Theodore Chi-chong Chang [zh], who died on October 26, 2020, at age 92 in California, was vice president of the Truth Theological Seminary and pastor emeritus of the Mandarin Baptist Church of Pasadena, California.[citation needed
]

From left: Mrs. Chi-cheng Chang, Ambassador Yu-tang Lew, Mrs. Sylvia Philips, Dr. Chang, Royal Philips Electronics Chairman Frits Philips and Mrs. Yalan Lew in 1976

Awards

Notes

  1. ^ Chinese: 張羣; pinyin: Zhāng Qún; Wade–Giles: Chang Ch'ün;[1] also known as Zhang Yuejun (張岳軍)

References

  1. ^ Profile of Zhang Qun
  2. ^ a b c d Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, Volume 1: Ai-Ch'u. Howard L. Boorman, Editor; Richard C. Howard, Associate Editor. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966, pp. 47-52
  3. ^ China: Hao Hao, Time Magazine on Chang's appointment as premier, April 28, 1947
  4. ^ Chang Chun Is Dead; Taiwan Aide Was 101, The New York Times, December 16, 1990
  5. ^ "Ar Triju zvaigžņu ordeni apbalvoto 22. saraksts" [Recipients of the Order of the Three Stars, No. 22]. Valdības Vēstnesis (in Latvian). No. 107. 1937-05-14. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-01-02.

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Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Shanghai
1929–1932 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Foreign Minister of the Republic of China

1935–1937 		Succeeded by
Wang Ch'ung-hui
Preceded by Vice Premier of the Republic of China
1938–1939 		Succeeded by
H. H. Kung
Preceded by Premier of the Republic of China
1947–1948 		Succeeded by
Wong Wen-hao
Preceded by Secretary-General of the Presidential Office of the Republic of China
1954–1972 		Succeeded by
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