Huang Fu

Huang Fu
黃郛
President of the Republic of China (Acting)
In office
2 November 1924 – 24 November 1924
Preceded by Cao Kun
Succeeded by Duan Qirui
Personal details
Born (1883-03-08)8 March 1883
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Died 6 December 1936(1936-12-06) (aged 53)
Shanghai, China
Nationality Republic of China
Political party Non-partisan
Alma mater Zhejiang Military College and Qiushi Academy
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Huang.

Huang Fu (simplified Chinese: 黄郛; traditional Chinese: 黃郛; pinyin: Huáng Fú; Wade–Giles: Huang Fu) (8 March 1883 – 6 December 1936) was a general and politician in early republican China. He was born in Hangzhou.

Biography

Huang studied at Zhejiang Military College and Qiushi Academy (current Zhejiang University), later was sent to Japan in 1904.[1] Huang came in contact with the Tongmenghui while studying at the Tokyo Shimbu Gakko, a military academy in Tokyo in 1905 and met Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Qun in 1907 when they arrived to study in Japan as well. In 1908, he studied surveying under the Imperial Japanese Army, and returned to China in 1910. During the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, he and Chen Qimei declared Shanghai to be independent of the Empire of China, and became blood brothers with Chiang Kai-shek.

He was forced to flee abroad after the failed Second Revolution of 1913 against Yuan Shikai, travelling via Japan to the United States, and returned in 1916 to participate in the final stages of the National Protection War, and to represent Zhejiang's military government in Beijing. When Sun Yatsen ordered Kuomintang members to swear personal loyalty to him, Huang objected and left politics.

Huang reappeared into public life by supporting China's entry into World War I hoping it would regain lost territories. He worked with President Xu Shichang as a diplomat, co-wrote books about economics and foreign affairs and would often guest lecturer at universities. He was part of China's delegation to the 1921 Washington Naval Conference which secured the Beiyang government's greatest diplomatic triumph, the return of Shandong.

After the fall of Cao Kun in the 1924 Beijing coup, he joined the Zhili clique and became acting president of the Republic of China on the request of Feng Yuxiang. He declared Cao Kun's term illegal because it was obtained through bribery and also repudiated the agreement which allowed former Emperor Puyi to continue to live in the Forbidden City.

Huang was influential in winning over Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan to Chiang Kai-shek's faction of the Kuomintang (KMT) which was one of the major reasons why Wang Jingwei's Wuhan regime collapsed. He later served under several offices during the Nanjing decade including Shanghai mayor, foreign minister, and chairman of the North China Political Council. Despite his close ties to Chiang, he never rejoined the KMT as he did not want to be associated with the opportunists who joined during and after the Northern Expedition. In 1933, he signed the unpopular Tanggu Truce which ceded Chahar, Rehe, and part of Hebei to Manchukuo. Like Chiang, he viewed the Communists as a greater threat than the Japanese. Huang died of lung cancer in Shanghai in 1936.

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  1. ↑ ÖªÃûÈËÎï at www.zju.edu.cn
Political offices
Preceded by
Cao Kun		 Acting President of the Republic of China
1924 		Succeeded by
Duan Qirui
Preceded by
Yan Huiqing		 Premier of the Republic of China
1924 		Succeeded by
Xu Shiying
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