1. Cheng Tien-fong, was a Chinese educator, politician and diplomat.
18 Facts About Cheng Tien-fong
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Cheng Tien-fong was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1899 in the late Qing Dynasty.
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Cheng Tien-fong entered Hongdo Middle School in 1912, but soon was transferred into Xinyuan Middle School.
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In 1917, Cheng Tien-fong entered Fudan Public School in Shanghai.
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In 1922, Cheng Tien-fong graduated with an MA in politics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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In 1926, Cheng Tien-fong obtained PhD in politics from the University of Toronto.
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Cheng Tien-fong went back to China and was a lecturer at Fudan University.
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In 1930, Cheng Tien-fong was the acting chairman, equivalent to the current governor, of Anhui Province.
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In 1932, Cheng Tien-fong was the President of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou.
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From 1936 to 1938, Cheng Tien-fong was the ambassador of China to Germany.
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The American historian Liang Hsi-Huey, who was the son of Liang Lone, the Chinese minister-plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia, wrote that Cheng Tien-fong was regarded as the "weakest link" among the Chinese diplomats in Europe.
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Liang fils wrote that Cheng Tien-fong was appointed ambassador to Germany because he was a "Kuomintang party favorite" whose knowledge of Germany was extremely superficial.
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Liang wrote that Cheng Tien-fong engaged in "obsequious flattery" of Adolf Hitler in an attempt to win his favor, and his dispatches to Nanking showed a very shallow understanding of National Socialism.
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Cheng Tien-fong was opposed to these plans for no better reason than Hitler hated the League, arguing that Chinese support for the League would upset the Nazis.
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The other Chinese diplomats felt that Cheng Tien-fong was too weak a figure to oppose General Hiroshi Oshima, the Japanese military attache in Berlin, who was a great friend of Joachim von Ribbentrop.
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From 1950 to 1954, Cheng Tien-fong was the Minister of Education of Taiwan.
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From 1958 to 1967, Cheng Tien-fong was the Vice President of the Examination Yuan.
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On 29 November 1967, Cheng Tien-fong died in New York City, United States.