Jiang Kanghu

Jiang Kanghu
江亢虎
Born(1883-07-18)July 18, 1883
Yiyang, Jiangxi, China
DiedDecember 7, 1954(1954-12-07) (aged 71)
Shanghai, China
NationalityChinese
OccupationPolitician

Jiang Kanghu (Chinese: ; pinyin: Jiāng Kànghǔ; Wade–Giles: Chiang K'ang-hu; Hepburn: Kō Kōko), who preferred to be known in English as Kiang Kang-hu, (July 18, 1883 – December 7, 1954), was a politician and activist in the Republic of China. His former name was "Shaoquan" (紹銓) and he also wrote under the name "Hsü An-ch'eng" (許安誠).[1]

Jiang was initially attracted by the doctrines of anarchism and organized the Socialist Party of China, the first anarchist-socialist party in China, which existed from 1911 to 1913.[2] As his politics became more conservative, he founded Southern University in Shanghai, taught at University of California, Berkeley, and became chair of the Department of Chinese Studies at McGill University in Canada. During the Second Sino-Japanese War he joined the Japanese-sponsored Reorganized National Government of China. [1] He was arrested as a traitor following the war, and died in a Shanghai jail in 1954.

  1. ^ a b Boorman (1967), p. 338-344.
  2. ^ Hsu Kwan-san (December 1979). "The Biographies of Eminent Chinese in the Republic of China (Minkuo Jen-wu Chuan)". The China Quarterly (Review) (80): 867–871. ISSN 0305-7410. JSTOR 653053.