Tang Shaoyi
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| Premier of the Republic of China | |
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In office 13 March 1912 – 27 June 1912 |
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| President | Yuan Shikai |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Lou Tseng-Tsiang |
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In office 5 August 1922 – 19 September 1922 |
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| President | Li Yuanhong |
| Preceded by | Wang Ch'ung-hui |
| Succeeded by | Wang Ch'ung-hui |
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| Born |
2 January 1862 Xiangshan County, Guangdong, Qing Empire |
| Died | 30 September 1938 (aged 76) Shanghai, Republic of China |
| Political party | Unity Party |
| Alma mater |
Queen's College, Hong Kong Columbia University |
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| Traditional Chinese | 唐紹儀 | ||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 唐绍仪 | ||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Táng Shàoyí |
| Wade–Giles | T'ang Shao-i |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Tong4 Siu6 Yee4 |
Tang Shaoyi (Chinese: 唐紹儀; pinyin: Táng Shàoyí; 2 January 1862 – 30 September 1938), original Tong Shao Yi, courtesy name Shaochuan (少川), was a Chinese politician who briefly served as the first Premier of the Republic of China in 1912. In 1938, he was assassinated by the staff of Bureau of Investigation and Statistics in Shanghai.
Tang was a native of Xiangshan County, Guangdong. Tang had been educated in the United States, attending elementary school in Springfield, Massachusetts, and high school in Hartford, Connecticut. He studied at Queen's College, Hong Kong, and then Columbia University in New York on the Chinese Educational Mission.
Tang was a friend of Yuan Shikai; and during the Xinhai Revolution, negotiated on the latter's behalf in Shanghai with the revolutionaries' Wu Tingfang, ending up with the recognition of Yuan as President of the Republic of China. He had been a diplomat with Yuan Shikai's staff in Korea. In 1900, he was appointed head of the Shandong Bureau of Foreign Affairs under governor Yuan Shikai.
Widely respected, he became the Republic's first Prime Minister in 1912, but quickly grew disillusioned with Yuan's lack of respect for the rule of law and resigned. He later took part in Sun Yatsen's government in Guangzhou. Tang Shaoyi opposed, on constitutional grounds, Sun's taking of the "Extraordinary Presidency" in 1921; Tang resigned from his position. In 1924, he refused an offer to be foreign minister under warlord Duan Qirui's provisional government in Beijing.
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