Hu Hanmin

Hu Hanmin

▪ Chinese leader
Wade-Giles romanization  Hu Han-min , original name  Hu Yanhong 
born Dec. 9, 1879, Panyu, Guangdong province, China
died May 12, 1936, Guangzhou [Canton]

      Chinese rival with Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) for control of the Nationalist (Nationalist Party) (Kuomintang) government in the late 1920s.

      Educated in Japan, Hu joined the Tongmenghui (“United League”), the revolutionary organization of the Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan), when it was organized in Tokyo in 1905. He soon became one of the party's leading polemicists and one of Sun's chief deputies. After the Chinese Revolution of 1911–12, when Sun became the provisional president of the new republic, Hu was named his chief secretary.

      In 1913 Yuan Shikai, who had succeeded Sun as president of the new republic, launched a campaign to crush the old adherents of the Tongmenghui, and Sun and Hu were forced to flee the country. In an effort to regain power, Sun organized a new revolutionary group, the Nationalist Party, and again made Hu one of his top lieutenants. By 1923, when Sun entered into an alliance with the Chinese Communist Party and began to receive Soviet military and organizational aid, the Nationalists controlled the South China area around Guangzhou (Canton).

      Sun died in March 1925, shortly before the Nationalist armies launched the Northern Expedition that crushed the warlords of North China and united the country. Hu, one of the major aspirants for leadership of the new government, gained power briefly in 1927 when the Nationalists split into two factions. He was elected chairman of the government established in Nanjing by the right-wing, anticommunist faction but was forced to resign four months later when the left wing purged its communist members and reunited with the right wing under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek, the head of the Nationalist armies.

      In September 1928 Hu became president of the Legislative Yüan, one of the five major organs of the government. His opposition to the promulgation of a constitution led to a break with Chiang culminating in Hu's arrest in 1931, an event that touched off a major revolt within the Nationalist Party and forced Chiang to release him. Hu died of apoplexy at the age of 56.

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