Zhou Fohai
Zhou Fohai 周佛海 | |
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Vice President of the Republic of China (Wang Jingwei regime) | |
In office March 1940 – August 1945 | |
President | Wang Jingwei (1940–1944) Chen Gongbo (1944–1945) |
Preceded by | Position Established |
Succeeded by | Position Abolished |
Minister of Finance (Wang Jingwei regime) | |
In office March 1940 – August 1945 | |
Preceded by | Position Established |
Succeeded by | Position Abolished |
Mayor of Shanghai | |
In office December 1944 – August 1945 | |
Preceded by | Chen Gongbo |
Succeeded by | Wu Guozhen |
Personal details | |
Born | 29 May 1897 Kyoto Imperial University |
Zhou Fohai (
Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War
.
Biography
Zhou was born in
First Congress in Shanghai in July 1921,[1] but quit the CCP in 1924 to join the Kuomintang. He was assigned as a secretary to the Public Relations Department of the central government, but maintained strong ties with the party's leftist clique, headed by Wang Jingwei and Liao Zhongkai. He strongly opposed Chiang Kai-shek’s Northern Expedition and Chiang Kai-shek’s conduct of the Second Sino-Japanese War
.
After Wang Jingwei broke ranks with the Kuomintang during
Mayor of Shanghai after Chen Gongbo in 1944. He also maintained secret contacts with the Nationalists in Chongqing
.
At the end of World War II, Zhou was captured and taken to Chongqing where he remained in custody for nearly a year. He was then sent to
sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment
by Chiang Kai-shek, after his wife had interceded for him. He suffered from heart and stomach problems while in prison and died on February 28, 1948, aged 50.
References
Citations
- ^ "Dates with destiny for CPC". China Daily. 1 July 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
Bibliography
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- Boyle, John H. (1972). China and Japan at War, 1937–1945: The Politics of Collaboration. ISBN 978-0-8047-0800-5.
- Burns, Richard D.; Bennett, Edward M. (1974). Diplomats in Crisis: United States-Chinese-Japanese Relations, 1919–1941. ISBN 978-0-8743-6135-3.
- Chi, Hsi-sheng (1982). Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937–1945. ISBN 978-0-4721-0018-7.
- Hsiung, James C. (1992). China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937–1945. ISBN 978-0-8733-2708-4.
- Mote, Frederick W. (1954). Japanese-Sponsored Governments in China, 1937–1945. Stanford University Press.