Wu Tiecheng

Wu Tiecheng (traditional Chinese: 吳鐵城; simplified Chinese: 吴铁城; pinyin: Wú Tiěchéng; Wade–Giles: Wu Tieh-cheng; 9 March 1888 – 19 November 1953) was a politician of 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.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wu.

Wu Tiecheng
吳鐵城
Wu Tiecheng as pictured in The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries
Vice Premier of the Republic of China
In office 23 December 1948 – 21 March 1949
Premier	Sun Fo He Yingqin
Preceded by	Chang Li-sheng
Succeeded by	Chia Ching-teh
Mayor of Shanghai
In office January 1932 – April 1937
Preceded by	Zhang Qun
Succeeded by	Yu Hung-chun
Personal details
Born	9 March 1888 Jiujiang, Jiangxi, Qing Dynasty
Died	19 November 1953(1953-11-19) (aged 65) Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang

After communists were purged from the Kuomintang 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]

See also

• List of vice premiers of the Republic of China