Wu Tiecheng

Wu Tiecheng
吳鐵城
Vice Premier of the Republic of China
In office
23 December 1948 – 21 March 1949
PremierSun Fo
He Yingqin
Preceded byChang Li-sheng
Succeeded byChia Ching-teh
Mayor of Shanghai
In office
January 1932 – April 1937
Preceded byZhang Qun
Succeeded byYu Hung-chun
Personal details
Born9 March 1888
Jiujiang, Jiangxi, Qing Dynasty
Died19 November 1953(1953-11-19) (aged 65)
Taipei, Taiwan
NationalityRepublic of China
Political partyKuomintang

Wu Tiecheng (Chinese: 吳鐵城; pinyin: Wú Tiěchéng; Wade–Giles: Wu Tieh-cheng; 1893–1953) was a politician in the Republic of China. He served as Mayor of Shanghai, Governor of Guangdong province, and was the Vice Premier and Foreign Minister in 1948–1949.

After communists were purged from the Kuomingtang in the Canton Coup in 1926, Chiang negotiated a compromise whereby hardline members of the rightist faction, such as Wu Tiecheng, were removed from their posts in compensation for the purged leftists in order to prove his usefulness to the CPC and their Soviet sponsor, Joseph Stalin[1][2]

  1. ^ Jordan 1976, pp. 42–49.
  2. ^ Kotkin 2014, pp. 627–629.