Serengdongrub

Serengdongrub^[a][b][4] (17 February 1894 – 2 August 1980), courtesy name Chü Ch'uan (Chinese: 巨川) and also known under the Chinese name of Pai Yün-t'i (Chinese: 白雲梯), was an Inner Mongolian politician in the Republic of China.^[5] An ethnic Mongol, he was a native of Harqin Middle Banner (today Ningcheng County, Chifeng).^[2]

Serendongrub
ᠰᠡᠷᠡᠩᠳᠣᠩᠷᠣᠪ
Serengdongrub as pictured in The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries[1]
Chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission
In office 26 November 1948 – 6 June 1949
Preceded by	Xu Shiying
Succeeded by	Guan Jiyu [zh]
Personal details
Born	(1894-02-17)17 February 1894 Harqin Middle Banner, Qing dynasty
Died	2 August 1980(1980-08-02) (aged 86) Taiwan
Political party	Kuomintang
Other political affiliations	Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	色楞棟魯布
Simplified Chinese	色楞栋鲁布
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sèléngdònglǔbù[2] Wade–Giles Se Leng Tung Lu Pu
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Цэрэндонров
Mongolian script	ᠰᠡᠷᠡᠩᠳᠣᠩᠷᠣᠪ

Names

In addition to his Mongolian name, Serengdongrub used the Chinese name Pai Yün-t'i (Chinese: 白雲梯; pinyin: Bái Yúntī). Some scholars read his Chinese name as a transcription of another Mongolian name Buyantai (meaning "meritorious", in Cyrillic Буянтай), and conflate references to Serengdongrub and Buyantai; however, as Christopher Atwood points, Buyantai (布彦泰) was actually another Harqin Mongol, whose Chinese name was Yu Lanzhai or Yu Lanze (??择).^[6]

Career

In 1912, he entered the Mongolian and Tibetan School at Beijing under Gungsangnorbu. Afterwards he joined the Kuomintang. In 1925, he was one of the founders of the Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, along with Merse. In 1934, he became a member of the Mongol Local Autonomy Political Affairs Committee. From 1948 to 1949 he served as head of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission. He retreated to Taiwan with the KMT, and died there in 1980.^[5]

Notes

1. Also written as Serendonrub, Serengdongrob, Serengdonrov, and Serendonrov, among others.
2. Mongolian: ᠰᠡᠷᠡᠩᠳᠣᠩᠷᠣᠪ, Цэрэндонров^[3]
   Chinese: 色楞棟魯布