Foo Ping-sheung (Chinese: 傅秉常; pinyin: Fù Bǐngcháng; 1895–1965) was a diplomat and politician in the early Republic of China and later in Taiwan.
Foo was born to a well off family in Foshan, Guangdong. At the age of ten, he was sent to St. Stephen’s College in Hong Kong, and then trained as a civil engineer at Hong Kong University.
Politics
editFoo quickly turned to political service for his uncle by marriage, Wu Ting-fang, then was an attache for the Canton Delegation of the Paris Peace Conference. He became secretary to Sun Yat-sen, an experience which led to his becoming Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government 1927. As a prominent member of the Prince’s Clique (Taizi pai), a political network headed by Sun Ke, the son of Sun Yatsen, Fu held various positions in the Foreign Ministry, then became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang in 1935. He was Republic of China's Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. from 1943 to 1949.
Semi-retirement and later years
editFoo retired to Paris and lived there from 1949 to 1956. He then returned to work for Chiang Kai-shek as President of the Anti-Corruption Board and Vice President of the Judicial Yuan in Taiwan until his death in 1965.[1]
Foo was an avid amateur photographer who took informal photos of leading politicians and their families.
Family
editFoo's eldest daughter, Katherine (傅锦培), married Bin Cheng, a renowned legal scholar who served as Dean of the University College London Faculty of Laws.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Biography of Fu Bingchang". Archived from the original on 2016-09-25. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ^ Zhou Yaguang 周亚光 (2017-05-19). "著名国际法学家、英国伦敦大学终身名誉教授郑斌先生向我校捐赠图书" [Renowned scholar of international law, Professor Emeritus Bin Cheng of University College London donates books to our school] (in Chinese). Northwest University of Politics and Law. Archived from the original on 2019-11-07. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
Bibliography
edit- 羅香林, 傅秉常与近代中国 (1975) (Luo Xianglin, Foo Ping-sheung and modern China)
- 傅秉常先生訪問紀錄 (The Reminiscences of Mr. Foo Ping-sheung) (中央研究院近代史研究所, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History, Oral History Series No. 45, 1993)
- 蒋介石最后一任驻苏大使傅秉常在苏联的日子 'Foo Ping-sheung: Chiang Kai-shek’s last Ambassador to Soviet Russia', (2007) Republican Archives, Issue 4, pp: 55-60. ISSN 1000-4491.
- Yee-Wah Foo (ed.) Chiang Kaishek’s Last Ambassador to Moscow, The Wartime Diaries of Fu Bingchang (2011) Palgrave Macmillan., ISBN 978-0-230-58477-8