Chu Minyi

Chu Minyi 褚民谊
Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nanjing Nationalist Government)
In office March 1940 – December 1940
President	Wang Jingwei
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Xu Liang
In office October 1941 – April 1945
President	Wang Jingwei Chen Gongbo
Preceded by	Xu Liang
Succeeded by	Li Shengwu
Personal details
Born	1884 Wuxing District, Zhejiang, Qing Dynasty
Died	Aug 23, 1946, age 60 Suzhou, Jiangsu, Republic of China
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang
Alma mater	University of Strasbourg
Profession	physician, educator, politician

Chu Minyi; (Chinese: 褚民誼; pinyin: Chǔ Mínyì; Hepburn: Cho Mingi; 1884 - August 23, 1946) was a leading figure in the Chinese republican movement and early Kuomintang government, later noted for his role as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the collaborationist Nanjing Nationalist Government during World War II.

Chu was born into a family of Scholar-bureaucrats in the Wuxing District of Zhejiang Province in the late Qing dynasty. His father was a noted physician. Chu Minyi was sent to Japan in 1903, where he studied economics and politics. In 1906, together with Zhang Jingjiang, he departed Japan for further studies in France, joining the Tongmenghui dedicated to overthrowing the Qing Dynasty, when their ship stopped in Singapore. While in France, he joined the group of Paris Chinese anarchists, such as Li Shizeng and Cai Yuanpei, whom he assisted in printing propaganda leaflets supporting the republican movement.

In November 1911, after the start of the Xinhai Revolution, he returned to Shanghai, where he became local leader of the Tongmenghui movement in the city. However, he disagreed with Song Jiaoren over the establishment of the Kuomintang, and left China for Belgium, where he earned degrees in medicine and pharmacology at the Free University of Brussels, but he never went into medical practice. He returned briefly to China in 1915 to oppose Yuan Shikai’s attempt to establish a new Chinese Empire, but soon returned to Europe. In 1921, he became the Vice President of the Institut Franco-Chinois which Li Shizeng had founded at the University of Lyons and held the post for a year. In 1922 he moved to Strasbourg, and received his doctorate from the University of Strasbourg in 1925.

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