1. Dai Jitao or Tai Chi-t'ao was a Chinese journalist, an early Kuomintang member, and the first head of the Examination Yuan of the Republic of China.
11 Facts About Dai Jitao
1. 2.
Dai Jitao is often referred to as Dai Chuanxian or by his other courtesy name, Dai Xuantang.
3.
Dai Jitao went to Japan in 1905 to study in a normal school and entered Nihon University's law program in 1907.
4.
Dai Jitao became Sun's translator and then his confidential secretary.
5.
Dai Jitao attended the first national congress of the Chinese Kuomintang in 1924, where he was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee, then later a member of the Standing Committee, and the Minister of Propaganda.
6.
Dai Jitao claimed Sun derived his ideology chiefly from Confucianism instead of Western philosophies and that Sun was a traditionalist.
7.
Dai Jitao was one of the lyricists of "National Anthem of the Republic of China".
8.
Dai Jitao jumped into a river and was rescued by a fisherman.
9.
Dai Jitao was widely known to be the birth father of Chiang Wei-kuo, the adoptive second son of Chiang Kai-shek.
10.
Dai Jitao had fathered a son, An-kuo, whom Dai Jitao later sent to Germany, to be educated at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg.
11.
In 1949, with the Kuomintang losing the Chinese Civil War to the Chinese Communist Party, Dai Jitao committed suicide by swallowing over 70 sleeping pills in Guangzhou.