Ding Jianxiu

Ding Jianxiu, before 1943.

Ding Jianxiu ( Chinese  丁 鑑 修  /  丁 鉴 修 , Pinyin Dīng Jiànxiū , W.-G. Ting Chien-hsiu ; * 1886 in Gaizhou , Liaoning Province , Empire of China , † 1944 in Xinjing , Manchukuo ) was a politician in the Republic of China and later in Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, where he served in various cabinet positions.

Life

Thing, from Gaizhou in northeast China, graduated from Waseda University's Economics Faculty in Tokyo , Japan. After his return to China, he studied law, among other things.

After completing his studies, he worked as a teacher in various educational institutions in Mukden , including the local education college, the vocational school center and the military and police academy. From 1913 he worked as a professor at the language faculty at the University of Mukden. He then joined the local administration, where he held various positions in the Fengtian provincial administration as well as the director of a Sino-Japanese joint venture to develop local iron ore deposits.

After the assassination of the leader of the so-called Fengtian clique , Zhang Zuolin , Ding began to campaign for the independence of Manchuria from the Republic of China. After the Mukden incident in September 1931 and the subsequent Japanese occupation of Manchuria , he received a post from the Japanese Kwantung Army on the self-government committee for Fengtian Province.

After the proclamation of the state of Manchukuo in the Japanese-occupied territory, Ding served from March 1932 to March 1934 as director of the transport department and then until March 1935 as a minister in the resulting Ministry of Transport. From May 1935 on, he was given a post as company minister before retiring from public service in May 1937. In May 1940, Ding was appointed to the Privy Council and helped prepare the celebrations for the tenth anniversary of Manchukuo's declaration of independence in March 1941. In December, he was appointed to a committee that oversaw the construction of the Manchurian national shrine. Ding died after illness in 1944 at the age of 58.

literature

• Rana Mitter: The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China. University of California Press, 2000, ISBN 0-520-22111-7 .
• Shinichi Yamamuro: Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8122-3912-1 .

Web links

Commons : Ding Jianxiu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Manchukuo's politician. (Japanese) Retrieved May 27, 2012.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ding is the family name here, Jianxiu is the first name.