Fu Bingchang

Fu Bingchang, before 1932.

Fu Bingchang also Foo Ping-sheung ( Chinese  傅 秉 常 , Pinyin Fù Bĭngcháng , W.-G. Fu Ping-ch'ang ; born February 16, 1896 in Foshan , Guangdong Province , Chinese Empire ; † July 29, 1965 ) was a politician and diplomat of the Republic of China .

Life

Fu Bingchang came from a wealthy family. In 1905 he studied at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. In 1916 he received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Hong Kong. In 1931 he received an honorary doctorate from Hong Kong University .

He married into the family of Wu Tingfang, was attaché to the Canton delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and secretary to Sun Yat-sen . In 1927 he was Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of China. In 1928, Fu Bingchang headed the Commission for the Codification of Civil Law.

He was a member of the Taizi pai (prince clique, clique around the son Sun Yat-sens , Sun Fo ) and held various offices in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until he was promoted to a member of the Central Executive Committee in 1935. In 1942 he was deputy foreign minister.

From 1943 to 1949 he was ambassador to Moscow . From October 19 to 30, 1943, a conference of foreign ministers took place in Moscow. At the end of this, the Moscow Declaration was signed. The signatories included Cordell Hull , Anthony Eden , Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, and Fu Bingchang for the Chinese government.

From 1949 to 1956 he lived in Paris . Chiang Kai-shek appointed him vice-president of the Judicial Yuan in 1956 .

Fu was an avid amateur photographer and took photos of political leaders and their families.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Taiwan today , September 1, 1965, Foo Ping-sheung , vice president of the Judicial Yuan, dies of heart attack at the age of 70.
2. ↑ University of Hong Kong, p. 53 Hongkong University : An Informal History, p. 74
3. ↑ Knut Benjamin Pißler , Denial of Creditors in China : Investigation into Legal Transplantation , Studies on Foreign and International Private Law, p. 12
4. ↑ Life November 22, 1943, CHINA'S AMBASSADOR FOO PING-SHEUNG AND CORDELL HULL.
5. ↑ Taiwan today , May 29, 1966, Sun Fo and Hsien Ying-chou ( memento from April 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) as president of Examination Yuan and vice president of Judicial Yuan respectively.
6. ↑ Historical Photographs of China , Fu Bingchang Collection ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Shao Lizi	Chinese ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1943 to 1949	Wang Jiaxiang

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