'Yin Tong (; 1889 – December 30, 1942) was a

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and military personnel in the Republic of China. He was an important person during the Provisional Government of the Republic of China and

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. His

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was Tongsheng (). He was born in

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Biography

After graduating the Nanjing Fourth Military Junior High School, Yin Tong went to Japan where he graduated the Military Account School ( :ja:陸軍経理学校). Later he returned to China, in 1913, he was appointed chief staff officer to the 1st brigade, 3rd division, Jiangsu Army. In 1917 he was transferred to be Chief of the Account Department, Military of Entering the War (). From 1921 Yin Tong successively held the positions of Chief of the Statistics Division in the Military Ministry, Head of the Zichuan () Mining Office, etc. In 1928 he was appointed Supervisor of Salt industry office,

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Province. On that time, he, Cheng Ke (), Yuan Liang () and Yin Rugeng (

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) was regarded as "Four Prominent Figures" of Japan hand. In May 1933 Yin Tong became a Chinese negotiator on the

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. In next month he was appointed advisor to the

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Political Affairs Readjustment Commission　() and member to the Requisitioning Committee on North Chinese Military Region. He became a brain to the Chairperson of the Readjustment Commission Huang Fu, and was in charge of negotiating with Japan. In October he was transferred to director of the Administrative bureau of Beining Railway (). He successively held the positions of adviser and counselor of the Ministry for Railway. In December 1937

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established the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, Yin Tong also participated in it. In next March he was appointed Governor to the General Office for Construction () of the same Government. In March 1940 the Wang Jingwei regime was established, he was appointed Executive member of the

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() and Member to the Central Political Committee of

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(Wang's Clique), etc. He also held the position of Governor to the General Office for Construction, the North China Political Council. Yin Tong died from

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with Heart disease at Beijing on 30 December 1942.

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(Tokyo), 31 December 1942.

Notes

References

Zheng Renjia (), "The biographical sketch of Yin Tong" ()
'Biographical Writings'' () Website (need Traditional Chinese font) *

'21st Century''　Online Version, Volume 49, April, 2006. * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yin, Tong Politicians from Wuxi Republic of China politicians from Jiangsu Chinese collaborators with Imperial Japan 1889 births 1942 deaths Deaths from uremia