Chang Tao-fan
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Chang Tao-fan
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| Born | 12 July 1897 Guizhou |
| Died | 12 June 1968 (aged 70) Taipei, Taiwan |
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Tianjin Nankai High School Slade School of Fine Art, University College London École des Beaux-Arts |
Chang Tao-fan (simplified Chinese: 张道藩; traditional Chinese: 張道藩; pinyin: Zhāng Dàofān; 12 July 1897 - 12 June 1968) was a prominent figure and long-time central member of the Kuomindang. He was the fourth President of the Legislative Yuan, and former President of Broadcasting Corporation of China.
Chang was born in Kuichou (current Guizhou), China. In his early years, he went to Tianjin to live with his relative there, and graduated from Tianjin Nankai High School. When Chang was a student he was very active in politics, and joined the Chinese Revolutionary Party.
In 1919, Chang went to study in Europe with the financial aid from then Chinese government. Chang spent three years in London at Slade School of Fine Art, an art school of the University College London. Chang also spent more than one year in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. He married a French woman in 1928 although he had met and admired Jiang Biwei, but she was the partner of the artist Xu Beihong.
In 1937 he was exchanging letters with the Jiang Biwei who was now single as her partner had fallen for his student, the painter Sun Duoci. Chang knew that the Japanese were thought to be about to bomb Nanjing and he arranged for Jiang Biwei to escape to Chongqing. Here they could correspond and secretly see each other but she could not appear as his consort if he was on official business. (Jiang Biwei was married to a man she had abandoned to live with Yu). Chang was a married man and the vice-minister of education. He arranged for Jiang to be given a job.
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