| The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 最新支那要人傳 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 最新支那要人传 | ||||||||
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| Kanji | 最新支那要人伝 | ||||||||
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The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries (Chinese: 最新支那要人傳, Japanese: 最新支那要人伝) is a guide to prominent individuals in the Republic of China, compiled in Japan by The Asahi Shimbun newspaper[1] during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Published on 2 February 1941, the work references 343 contemporary notables in the Kuomintang and the Nationalist government, the Chinese Communist Party, the pro-Japanese Wang Jingwei regime and Mengjiang, and independent politicians and celebrities.[2]
A digitization of the reference work can be found on the website of the National Diet Library of Japan,[3] the full list of biographies follows.