Zhou Fohai

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Zhou Fohai
周佛海
Zhou in 1940
Vice President of the Republic of China
(Wang Jingwei regime)
In office
March 1940 – August 1945
PresidentWang Jingwei (1940–1944)
Chen Gongbo (1944–1945)
Preceded byPosition Established
Succeeded byPosition Abolished
Minister of Finance
(Wang Jingwei regime)
In office
March 1940 – August 1945
Preceded byPosition Established
Succeeded byPosition Abolished
Mayor of Shanghai
In office
December 1944 – August 1945
Preceded byChen Gongbo
Succeeded byWu Guozhen
Personal details
Born29 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

  1. ^ "Dates with destiny for CPC". China Daily. 1 July 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2020.

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