1. Wang Chonghui was a prominent Chinese jurist, diplomat and politician who served the Republic of China from its foundation in 1912 until his death in 1958.
23 Facts About Wang Chonghui
1. 2.
Wang Chonghui was a close associate of the republic's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, an active member of the Kuomintang, and a judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice in the Hague.
3.
Wang Chonghui received the degree of Doctor of Civil Law from Yale Law School in 1905.
4.
Wang Chonghui was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1907.
5.
Wang Chonghui returned to China from London in the autumn of 1911, and when the anti-dynastic Xinhai Revolution of October 10 began, he became adviser to Chen Qimei, the revolutionary military governor of Shanghai.
6.
Wang Chonghui represented Guangdong at the Nanjing convention which elected Dr Sun Yat-sen provisional president of the Republic of China.
7.
In 1912, Wang Chonghui was designated first minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of China.
8.
Wang Chonghui participated in drafting the republic's provisional constitution of 1912.
9.
Tang resigned in June 1912, and a month later Wang Chonghui did the same.
10.
Wang Chonghui moved to Shanghai and assumed the roles of vice-chancellor of Fudan University and chief editor of the Zhonghua Book Company.
11.
Wang Chonghui served as chief justice of the Chinese supreme court in 1920 and justice minister of the Beiyang government of Li Yuanhong in June 1922.
12.
Wang Chonghui briefly served as acting prime minister from September to November 1922.
13.
Wang Chonghui was fundamental in formulating the principles underlying the Republic of China's criminal and civil codes.
14.
Wang Chonghui retained that post, and became a member of the State Council, from 1928 to 1931.
15.
In 1930, Wang Chonghui was elected judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice, but he delayed his acceptance as he was guiding the process of drawing up the provisional constitution of 1931.
16.
Wang Chonghui assumed his post in the Hague in 1931, and served out his term until 1936.
17.
Wang Chonghui served as foreign minister from March 1937 - April 1941, a painful time during which Japanese invasion would kill millions of Chinese civilians and force the ROC government to relocate from Nanjing to a provisional capital in Chongqing.
18.
In 1942, Wang Chonghui became secretary general of the Chinese Supreme Defense Council.
19.
Dr Wang Chonghui was a member of the Chinese delegation to the United Nations in San Francisco in April 1945.
20.
Wang Chonghui then worked on the framing of the constitution of the Republic of China, which was promulgated on January 1,1947.
21.
When mainland China fell to the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, Wang Chonghui relocated to Taipei, Taiwan.
22.
Wang Chonghui continued to serve as president of the Judicial Yuan until his death on March 15,1958.
23.
Wang Chonghui's son, Wang Da-hong, was an important Taiwanese architect, regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture in Taiwan.