Tang Shaoyi

January 2, 1862 (age 76)

Xiangshan County

In 1938 he was assassinated by the Kuomingtang in Shanghai. Tang was a native of Xiangshan County, Guangdong. Tang had been educated in the United States, attending elementary school in Springfield, Massachusetts and high school in Hartford, Connecticut. He had been a diplomat with Yuan Shikai"s staff in of Korea and was appointed head of the Shandong Bureau of Foreign Affairs under governor Yuan Shikai in 1900. Widely respected, he became the Republic"s first Prime Minister in 1912, but quickly grew disillusioned with Yuan"s lack of respect for the rule of law and resigned. He later took part in Sun Yatsen"s government in Guangzhou. Tang Shaoyi opposed, on constitutional grounds, Sun"s taking of the "Extraordinary Presidency" in 1921. Tang resigned from his position. In 1924, he refused an offer to be foreign minister under warlord Duan Qirui"s provisional government in Beijing. In 1937, Tang bought a house on Route Ferguson in the Shanghai French Concession and retired there. The following year, the Japanese invaded and occupied Shanghai (though not yet the foreign concessions). Japanese general Kenji Doihara attempted to recruit Tang to become president of the new pro-Japanese puppet government, and Tang was willing to negotiate with the Japanese. On 30 September 1938, Tang was killed in his living room by a Juntong squad who pretended to be antique sellers. Tang Shaoyi"s daughter Tang Baoyue (English name May Tang) was married to the prominent diplomat V.K. Wellington Koo. She died in October 1918 during the 1918 flu pandemic, after falling ill for only a week. Another daughter Lora Tang was married to the well-known Singapore philanthropist Lee Seng Gee.

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Tang had been educated in the United States: elementary school in Springfield, Massachusetts, high school in Hartford, Connecticut, and finally one year at Columbia University.

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In 1938 he was assassinated by the Kuomingtang in Shanghai. Tang was a native of Xiangshan County, Guangdong. Tang had been educated in the United States, attending elementary school in Springfield, Massachusetts and high school in Hartford, Connecticut.

He had been a diplomat with Yuan Shikai"s staff in of Korea and was appointed head of the Shandong Bureau of Foreign Affairs under governor Yuan Shikai in 1900.

Widely respected, he became the Republic"s first Prime Minister in 1912, but quickly grew disillusioned with Yuan"s lack of respect for the rule of law and resigned. He later took part in Sun Yatsen"s government in Guangzhou.

Tang Shaoyi opposed, on constitutional grounds, Sun"s taking of the "Extraordinary Presidency" in 1921. Tang resigned from his position.

In 1924, he refused an offer to be foreign minister under warlord Duan Qirui"s provisional government in Beijing.

In 1937, Tang bought a house on Route Ferguson in the Shanghai French Concession and retired there. The following year, the Japanese invaded and occupied Shanghai (though not yet the foreign concessions). Japanese general Kenji Doihara attempted to recruit Tang to become president of the new pro-Japanese puppet government, and Tang was willing to negotiate with the Japanese.

On 30 September 1938, Tang was killed in his living room by a Juntong squad who pretended to be antique sellers.

Tang Shaoyi"s daughter Tang Baoyue (English name May Tang) was married to the prominent diplomat V.K. Wellington Koo. She died in October 1918 during the 1918 flu pandemic, after falling ill for only a week.

Another daughter Lora Tang was married to the well-known Singapore philanthropist Lee Seng Gee.

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The Kuomintang"s intelligence agency Juntong learned about the negotiation, and its chief Dai Li ordered his assassination.

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