Wang Ch'ung-hui
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| Foreign Minister of the Republic of China | |
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In office 1937–1941 |
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| Preceded by | Chang Ch'un |
| Succeeded by | Quo Tai-chi |
| Premier of the Republic of China | |
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In office 1922 |
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| Preceded by | Yan Huiqing |
| Succeeded by | Wang Daxie |
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| Born | 10 October 1881 British Hong Kong |
| Died | 15 March 1958 (aged 76) Taipei, Taiwan |
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| Traditional Chinese | 王寵惠 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 王宠惠 | ||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Wáng Chǒnghuì |
| Wade–Giles | Wang² Ch'ung³-hui⁴ |
Wang Ch'ung-hui (1881–1958) was a prominent Chinese jurist, diplomat and politician who served the Republic of China from its foundation in 1912 until his death in 1958. He was a close associate of the republic's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, an active member of the Kuomintang ("Chinese Nationalist Party"), and a judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice in the Hague.
Wang was born in Hong Kong in 1881, and graduated in 1900 from Peiyang University where he studied law. After briefly teaching at Nanyang Public School, in 1901 he continued his study in Japan, and later traveled to the United States attending the University of California and Yale. He received the degree of Doctor of Civil Law from Yale Law School in 1905. Wang was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1907. In the same year, his translation of the German Civil Code (of 1896) into English was published. During 1907 and 1911, he studied comparative law in Germany and France.
He returned to China from London in the autumn of 1911, and when the anti-dynastic Xinhai Revolution of October 10 began, he became adviser to Chen Qimei, the revolutionary military governor of Shanghai. He represented Guangdong at the Nanking convention which elected Dr. Sun Yat-sen provisional president of the Republic of China.
In 1912, Wang was designated first minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of China. After the rise of Yuan Shih-k'ai, Wang was named minister of justice in the cabinet of T'ang Shao-yi. He participated in drafting the republic's provisional constitution of 1912. Tang resigned in June 1912, and a month later Wang did the same. He moved to Shanghai and assumed the roles of vice-chancellor of Futan University and chief editor of the Chunghua Book Company.
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