Wang Shih-chieh also known as Wang Shijie (; 10 March 1891 – 21 April 1981) was a Chinese politician and scholar 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 ...

in service to the

Republic of China 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 northeast ...

.徐主編（2007）、79頁。劉国銘主編（2005）、143頁。 He signed the message of goodwill on behalf of the Government of China to the Constitutional Assembly of India at its inaugural meeting on the 9th of December 1946.

Early life and family origins

Wang was born in 1891 in

Chongyang County Chongyang County () is a county of southeastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Hunan province to the west and Jiangxi province to the southeast. It is under the administration of Xianning City. Administrative Divisions Eight ...

Wuchang Wuchang forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the ri ...

Prefecture,

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...

Province during the late

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

Biography

Wang Shijie retreated with the Nationalists to Taiwan in 1949. After arriving in Taiwan, he remained active in politics including representing China before the

UN General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; french: link=no, Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. Curr ...

prior to 1972. He was president of

Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, la, 1=Academia Sinica, 3=Chinese Academy; ), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ...

from 1962 to 1970. His daughter is

Wang Chiu-Hwa Wang Chiu-Hwa (; 8 August 1925 – 14 June 2021) was a Taiwanese architect noted for her work with libraries in Taiwan. Due to the many libraries she designed and the fact she pioneered the earliest modern university library in Taiwan, Wang was ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Shijie Members of the Kuomintang People of the Chinese Civil War Chinese anti-communists 1891 births 1981 deaths Presidents of Wuhan University Chinese Civil War refugees Taiwanese people from Hubei Ministers of Science and Technology of the Republic of China Education Ministers of the Republic of China Foreign Ministers of the Republic of China