Tong Jixu was a Chinese businessman and Manchukuo official from Fujian province in southeast China.
18 Facts About Tong Jixu
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Tong Jixu was born in 1884, in Fuzhou city, Fujian Province in an intellectual Manchu family.
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Tong Jixu's ancestors were engineers who produced the cannons for the Manchu military.
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Tong Jixu's family lived on the Dongmen, Fuzhou, for seven generations as part of the Decorated Yellow Banner guard garrison.
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Tong Jixu graduated from Fujian Higher School and was a friend of Chen Baochen, Emperor Puyi's teacher.
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Tong Jixu moved to Beijing around 1902, started a photograph business and later taught English in the Academy of Law and Politics for Aristocratic Education.
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Tong Jixu then joined the Beiyang Army and was commissioned as an officer in the department of chief staffs.
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Tong Jixu started the then new air force and served as a vice-principal of the Nanyuan Aviation School at the Nanyuan Military Base.
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Tong Jixu specialized in creating limited-edition prints of authentic artworks, making rare pieces more accessible to collectors and art students.
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Tong Jixu was tasked to clean up the administration and root out corruption within the Forbidden City.
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Tong Jixu established the Hujun, the elite guard division separated from the Japanese controlled military and tried to build up a military core that would be loyal to Puyi.
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Latter Puyi re-appointed Tong Jixu to be the Director of Internal Guards.
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Tong Jixu's wife was from a Fuzhou Manchu family.
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Unlike most of the prominent Chinese at the time, Tong Jixu never had any concubine, and the couple had a very happy relationship throughout their lives.
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Tong Jixu was a naval captain who fought the Russian Red Army at the northern border of Heilongjiang.
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Tong Jixu Zhishan died in 1947 during the Chinese civil war, probably because his CCP identity was betrayed to the Chinese Nationalist.
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Zhao Tong Jixu was the vice president of two medical universities, Xinjiang Medical University and Guangxi Medical University.
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Tong Jixu committed suicide during the cultural revolutions in Nanning, Guangxi.