Wu Chao-shu (

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: 伍朝樞;

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: 伍朝枢; 23 May 1887 – 3 January 1934), also known as C.C. Wu, and romanized as Wu Chaoshu, was Foreign Minister of the

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in 1927–8, and was Minister to the United States from 1928 to 1931. He was the son of former Minister to the United States

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and philanthropist

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. Wu was born in

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. He went to

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and was valedictorian there in 1904. He graduated from the

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in 1911. He was elected a member of the Chinese parliament in 1913. In 1917, he joined

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's Constitution Protection Movement, and in 1918 was made Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. He remained in this post until 1923, despite Sun's exile and subsequent return. In 1919 he was China's chief delegate to the

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. In March 1923, Wu became Foreign Affairs Minister in Sun's government-in-exile. He became Foreign Minister of the Republic of China under

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in 1927. He then served as Minister to the United States from 1928 to 1931, and Representative to the

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in 1929–30. He was the delegate to The Hague Conference for the Modification of International Law in 1930. He resigned as Minister to the United States in 1931 as a protest against the supply of arms to the Nanking government against the rival Cantonese government. Wu married Pao Fang-ho, and the couple had eight children. Wu's grandson is US federal judge George H. Wu.

References

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