Xu Xiuzhi (; 1880–1954) was a politician in the

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. He belonged to Beijing Government and National Government. Later he participated in the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, the

Reformed Government of the Republic of China The Reformed Government of the Republic of China was a Chinese puppet state created by Japan that existed from 1938 to 1940 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The regime had little authority or popular support, nor did it receive international ...

and the

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(Republic of China-Nanjing). His former name was Zhuoran () and his

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was Xixi (). He was born in

Wuxi Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou. In 2017 it had a population of 3,542,319, with 6,553,000 living in the entire prefecture-level city ar ...

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Life and career

Xu Xiuzhi went to study to in Japan, and graduated from the Department of Law,

Chuo University , commonly referred to as or , is a private flagship research university in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1885 as Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō (the English Law School), Chuo is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions in the country. The univer ...

. After he returned to China, he successively held the post of Local Judicial Officer in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In the end, he became the judge of the Daliyuan (). In November 1924, Xu Xiuzhi was appointed to the Director of the Cast Mark Bureau by Prime Minister

Huang Fu Huang Fu () (8 March 1883 – 6 December 1936) was a general and politician in early Republic of China. Biography Huang studied at Zhejiang Military College and Qiushi Academy (current Zhejiang University), later was sent to Japan in 1904.< ...

. After that, Xu became Huang's confidant. In 1927, Xu Xiuzhi participated in National Government, and was appointed to the Chief of the Office of Legislation,

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

City. In October, he transferred to the chief secretary of the Ministry of Traffic. In 1933, he was appointed to the member of the Arranging Committee on Political Affairs to Beiping　(), and was in charge of negotiating with Japan. In July 1935, he was promoted to Executive Vice-Minister for Interior by the Minister for Interior Huang Fu. Next February, Huang Fu resigned his post due to disease. Xu also withdrew from his post. After the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

broke out in December 1937, Xu Xiuzhi became the chief of the division of the public welfare, Xinminhui (). Next January, he was appointed to the chief of the office of the Research, the Executive Committee, the collaborationist Provisional Government of the Republic of China. In May 1938, he was appointed to the Ministry for Judicial Administrating, Executive Yuan, the

. But he did not really take office at this post. On July, he became the Vice-president of the Northern Chinese Telegraph and Telephone Company, and also held the director of the Association for Overseas Chinese in Beijing.Xu Xiuzhi's work experience on this period was different among materials. This Article was mainly due to ''The Biographies of Most Recent Chinese Important People''. After 1939, the whereabouts of Xu were not so clear, but in February 1945, he was appointed to be Mayor of the Peking Special City of the

. After the Wang Jingwei regime had collapsed, the whereabouts of Xu Xiuzhi were mostly unknown. He died at Beijing in 1954.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Xu, Xiuzhi Politicians from Wuxi Republic of China politicians from Jiangsu Chinese collaborators with Imperial Japan 1880 births 1954 deaths Mayors of Beijing