Wu Zhongxin

Wu Zhongxin
Wu Zhongxin
	Wu Zhongxin as pictured in The Most Recent Biographies of Important Chinese People
Secretary-General to the President
	In office; December 1948 – January 1949
Preceded by	Wu Dingchang
Succeeded by	Weng Wenhao
Civil and Military Governor of Xinjiang
	In office; 29 August 1944 – 29 March 1946
Preceded by	Sheng Shicai
Succeeded by	Zhang Zhizhong
Chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission
	In office; August 1936 – December 1944
Preceded by	Lin Yungai
Succeeded by	Luo Liangjian
Chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Government
	In office; April 1935 – August 1936
Preceded by	Wang Jialie
Succeeded by	Gu Zhutong
Chairman of the Anhui Provincial Government
	In office; April 1932 – May 1933
Preceded by	Chen Diaoyuan
Succeeded by	Liu Zhenhua
Personal details
Born	March 15, 1884; Hefei, Anhui Province, China
Died	December 16, 1959 (aged 75); Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang
Military service
Allegiance	Republic of China
Rank	General

Wu Zhongxin, or Wu Chung-hsin (traditional Chinese: 吳忠信; simplified Chinese: 吴忠信; pinyin: Wú Zhōngxìn; March 15, 1884 – December 16, 1959) was a General and government official of the Republic of China.[1] He was associated with the CC Clique. In his tenure as the Chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission of the Republic of China, Wu supervised the enthronement of the 14th Dalai Lama.[2][3] From late 1944 until early 1946 he was one of the few KMT governors of Xinjiang.

Footnotes

Biography of General Wu Zhongxin
Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 253. ISBN 0-521-25514-7. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
Ondřej Klimeš (8 January 2015). Struggle by the Pen: The Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National Interest, c.1900–1949. BRILL. p. 197. ISBN 978-90-04-28809-6.

Wu Zhongxin, Republic of China's Chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission with Lhamo Dhondup, the future 14th Dalai Lama in Amdo about 1940. A ransom was paid to Ma Bufang to release the boy and his family to go to monastic education in Lhasa.

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[1] Biography of General Wu Zhongxin

[2] Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 253. ISBN 0-521-25514-7. Retrieved 2010-06-28.

[Klimeš2015-3] Ondřej Klimeš (8 January 2015). Struggle by the Pen: The Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National Interest, c.1900–1949. BRILL. p. 197. ISBN 978-90-04-28809-6.