Zhang Qun

Zhang Qun (Chang Chun)
張群
In 1929, when mayor of Shanghai
Secretary-General of the Presidential Office of the Republic of China
In office 18 May 1954 – 28 May 1972
President	Chiang Kai-shek
Deputies	Xu Jing-zhi Huang Bo-du Zheng Yan-fen
Premier of the Republic of China
In office 23 April 1947 – 28 May 1948
President	Chiang Kai-shek
Vice Premier	Wang Yunwu Ku Meng-yu
Governor of Sichuan Province
In office 15 November 1940 – 14 May 1947
Vice Premier of the Republic of China
In office 1 January 1938 – 11 December 1939
President	Lin Sen
Premier	H. H. Kung
Foreign Minister of the Republic of China
In office 12 December 1935 – 4 March 1937
Governor of Hubei Province
In office 7 July 1933 – 17 December 1935
Mayor of Shanghai
In office 1 April 1929 – 6 January 1932
Personal details
Born	(1889-05-09)9 May 1889 Huayang County, Sichuan, Qing Empire
Died	14 December 1990(1990-12-14) (aged 101) Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang
Alma mater	Baoding Military Academy

Zhang Qun or Chang Chun (Chinese: 張群; May 9, 1889 – December 14, 1990), also known as Zhang Yuejun (張岳軍), was premier of the Republic of China and a prominent member of the Kuomintang. He served as secretary general to the President of the Republic from 1954 to 1972 and senior advisor to Presidents Chiang Kai-shek, Yen Chia-kan, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Lee Teng-hui. Under the influence of his wife, Ma Yu-ying, he became a Christian in the 1930s.

Born in the Huayang County (now part of Shuangliu County), Sichuan province, Chang was admitted in 1906 to the Baoding Military Academy, just southwest of Beijing. The next year, he was selected to go to Japan to study at the Tokyo Shimbu Gakko, a preparatory military school, where he specialized in artillery. Together with his classmate, Chiang Kai-shek, he joined the T'ung-meng-hui the same year. After completing their preparatory studies, they both served in the Takada regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army’s 13th Field Artillery Bridage, stationed in Niigata Prefecture before returning to China to serve under Sun Yat-sen in the Xinhai Revolution which would overthrow the Qing monarchy in 1911. During this period, a lifelong friendship between the two men and Huang Fu was formed and the three became sworn, or blood, brothers. Chang married Ma Yu-ying (馬育英) in 1913; because their first child was born in 1917, he later claimed to have practiced family planning long before it became popular.