12 Facts About Chu Minyi

Chu Minyi; was a leading figure in the Chinese republican movement and early Nationalist government, later noted for his role as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the collaborationist Wang Jingwei Government during World War II.

Chu Minyi was sent to Japan in 1903, where he studied economics and politics.

Chu Minyi returned briefly to China in 1915 to oppose Yuan Shikai's attempt to establish a new Chinese Empire, but soon returned to Europe.

In 1925, on the death of Sun Yat-sen, Chu Minyi returned to China and became a member of the Kuomintang educational commission and the head of the medical school at the Guangdong University.

Chu Minyi became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang in 1926.

Chu Minyi was in Shanghai during the Battle of Shanghai in 1937, remaining in that city during the Japanese takeover.

However, when his brother-in-law Wang Jingwei broke ranks with the Kuomintang and established the collaborationist Wang Jingwei Government, Chu Minyi accepted the post of Vice President of the Executive Yuan and Foreign Minister in 1940.

Chu Minyi was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by Emperor Hirohito.

Chu Minyi became the ambassador of the collaborationist Chinese government to Japan briefly before becoming the Foreign Minister again until the final months of the war, and continued to pay an important role in the Wang Jingwei Government until the end of World War II.

In 1945, after the surrender of Japan, Chu Minyi was taken into custody by the Republic of China government in Guangdong, where he served as governor, in August 1945.

Chu Minyi was brought to trial in Nanjing on charges of treason in April 1946.

Nevertheless, Chu Minyi was found guilty of treason and executed at Suzhou on August 23,1946.