1. Tang Shaoyi, spelled Tong Shao Yi, courtesy name Shaochuan, was a Chinese statesman who briefly served as the first Premier of the Republic of China in 1912.
11 Facts About Tang Shaoyi
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Tang Shaoyi later studied at Queen's College, Hong Kong, and then Columbia University in New York on the Chinese Educational Mission.
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Tang Shaoyi was a member of Columbia College's class of 1882 before being recalled back to China by the Qing government.
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Tang Shaoyi was a friend of Yuan Shikai; and during the Xinhai Revolution, negotiated on the latter's behalf in Shanghai with the revolutionaries' Wu Ting-fang, ending up with the recognition of Yuan as President of the Republic of China.
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Tang Shaoyi had been a diplomat with Yuan Shikai's staff in Korea.
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Tang Shaoyi later took part in Sun Yat-sen's government in Guangzhou.
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Tang Shaoyi opposed, on constitutional grounds, Sun's taking of the "Extraordinary Presidency" in 1921; Tang resigned from his position.
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In 1937, Tang Shaoyi bought a house on Route Ferguson in the Shanghai French Concession and retired there.
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Japanese general Kenji Doihara attempted to recruit Tang Shaoyi to become president of the new pro-Japanese puppet government, and Tang Shaoyi was willing to negotiate with the Japanese.
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On 30 September 1938, Tang Shaoyi was killed in his living room by a Juntong squad who pretended to be antique sellers.
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Tang Shaoyi died in October 1918 during the Great Influenza Pandemic, after falling ill for only a week.