Lian Yu (; born 1886) was a diplomat, politician, judicial officer and lawyer in the

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. He was an important politician during the

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and

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(Republic of China-Nanjing). His

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was Liqing (). He was born in

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Biography

Lian Yu went to Japan where he acquired

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Kyoto Imperial University , mottoeng = Freedom of academic culture , established = , type = Public (National) , endowment = ¥ 316 billion (2.4 billion USD The United States dollar (symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to disting ...

. Later he returned to China, got a position in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Beijing Government.Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo), January 20, 1941, p.1. In January 1913 he was appointed Chief of the

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High Court, but he resigned in November. The following March he was appointed Chief of the

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High Court which post he held until September 1920. He was transferred to acting Chief of the

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High court soon, but resigned next month. Later he was an established lawyer in

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. In April 1938 Lian Yu was appointed Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs in the

, but resigned in June. Next February, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Chen Lu () was assassinated by secret agents of the Nationalist Government, so Lian served 4 months as acting Minister for Foreign Affairs. In same August he was transferred to the position of acting Minister for Business (

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succeeded him as acting Minister for Foreign Affairs). In March 1940 the

Reorganized National Government of China The Wang Jingwei regime or the Wang Ching-wei regime is the common name of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China ( zh , t = 中華民國國民政府 , p = Zhōnghuá Mínguó Guómín Zhèngfǔ ), the government of the pup ...

was established, Lian Yu was appointed a legislator (Member of the

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). In the end of the same year he was appointed the first Ambassador to

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...

. In February 1943 he was recalled (

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succeeded him in this position) and became Ambassador standing at the Ministry. In May 1945 he was appointed as the last Ambassador to Japan.Guo Qingyou (main ed.), p.1919. After the Wang Jingwei regime collapsed, the whereabouts of Lian Yu remained unknown.

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