Ding Weifen (; 1874－12 May 1954) was a founding father of the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

. He served as Vice-President of

Control Yuan The Control Yuan is the supervisory and auditory branch of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Prior to constitutional reforms in the 1990s, the Control Yuan, along with National Assembly (electoral college) and the Legislati ...

from 28 December 1931 to 1935.

Biography

Ding was born in Taoluo Town of

Rizhao Rizhao (), alternatively romanized as Jihchao, is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Shandong province, China. It is situated on the coastline along the Yellow Sea, and features a major seaport. It borders Qingdao to the northeast, Weifang t ...

, Shandong in 1874, the son of Ding Yici (), a teacher. His

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was Dingcheng () and Dingchen (). He had an elder brother, Ding Weisong (). In 1903, he attended Baoding Normal College. A year later, he went to Japan to study law at Meiji University. He joined the

Tongmenghui The Tongmenghui of China (or T'ung-meng Hui, variously translated as Chinese United League, United League, Chinese Revolutionary Alliance, Chinese Alliance, United Allegiance Society, ) was a secret society and underground resistance movement ...

on October 21, 1905. He founded the ''Bell'' () with Jiang Yansheng. He returned to the China in Spring 1907, becoming President of Shandong School of Law and Politics. During 1911, he took part in

Wuchang Uprising The Wuchang Uprising was an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty that took place in Wuchang (now Wuchang District of Wuhan), Hubei, China on 10 October 1911, beginning the Xinhai Revolution that successfully overthrew China's last ...

. He moved on to the house of representatives in 1912. He was a member of congress between 1917 and 1922. He founded ''North China Weekly'' () in 1918. He served as Head of the Propaganda Department and the Training Department of Kuomintang from 1927 to 1929. He was a member of the National Government from 17 September 1927 to 1947. He was the Secretary General of Central Party Committee of Kuomintang in 1931. On December 28, 1931, he was appointed the Vice-President of

, a position he held until 1935. He was a member of Control Yuan from 31 May 1948 to 12 May 1954. On May 12, 1954, he died in

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

Personal life

His daughter, Ding Yujuan (), was married to hydrologist Huang Wanli. His adopted daughter

Tsun-ying Wong Tsun-ying Wong ( zh, 王隽英, 1908 – 2 December 1960) was a Chinese academic and politician. She was among the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948. Biography Wong was born in 1908 and was originally from Panshidian ...

was one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948, and her son Samuel is an American physicist who received the

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in 1976, with

Burton Richter Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Sa ...

, for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. His grandson in law, Yang Le, is a member of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ding, Weifen 1874 births 1954 deaths Politicians from Rizhao Meiji University alumni National Sun Yat-sen University faculty Taiwanese people from Shandong Members of the Control Yuan