Wei Tao-ming was a distinguished Chinese diplomat and public servant.
19 Facts About Wei Tao-ming
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Wei Tao-ming was prominent as the Republic of China's Ambassador to the United States during the Second World War and foreign minister during the years in which the People's Republic of China sought to oust the ROC from the United Nations.
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Wei Tao-ming was the first civilian Governor of Taiwan Province, replacing Governor General Chen Yi.
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Wei Tao-ming was born in Kiukiang, Kiangsi province in 1899.
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Wei Tao-ming's father, Wei Tiao-yuan, was an affluent educator and active member of Dr Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement.
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Wei Tao-ming then studied French in Peking for a year before moving to France in 1919.
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Wei Tao-ming obtained his doctorate in law from the University of Paris in 1926 and returned to China to pursue a legal career in Shanghai.
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At the age of 29, Wei became the youngest president of the Judicial Yuan.
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From 1930 to 1931, Wei Tao-ming served as mayor of special municipality of Nanking, then capital of the Republic of China.
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Wei Tao-ming resigned his post in October 1945, citing personal reasons, and was succeeded by Wellington Koo, then Ambassador to the Court of St James.
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Wei Tao-ming employed thirteen members on the provincial board, including those who were Taiwanese-born.
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Wei Tao-ming became the minister of foreign affairs after being the Governor.
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Wei Tao-ming served as foreign minister of the Republic of China during the 1960s and was very active in maintaining US support for Taipei.
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Wei Tao-ming maintained a coalition in the United Nations General Assembly to reject membership for the People's Republic of China.
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Wei Tao-ming resigned due to health reason in 1971 as Peking's campaign to oust the ROC from the United Nations was on the verge of succeeding.
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Wei Tao-ming was the first female lawyer and judge in Chinese history.
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Wei Tao-ming earned her doctoral degree in law at the Sorbonne in France and was the first Chinese person, male or female, to practice law at the French extraterritorial courts in Shanghai.
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Wei Tao-ming advocated women having their own voices and choices in marriage, and wrote it into the Republic of China's law.
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Wei Tao-ming died in Taipei on May 18,1978, at the age 79.