Chen Gongbo (1892-1946) Chinese politician, was the Head of the Legislative Yuan of the Wang Jingwei's puppet state, the Nanjing Nationalist Government. 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Legislative Yuan building in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City (the view is partially obscured by the childrens hospital building of the National Taiwan University Hospital). ... Wang Jingwei * Courtesy name: Jixin (季新) * Alternate name: Zhaoming (兆銘). Wang Jingwei (Traditional Chinese: 汪精衛; Simplified Chinese: 汪精卫; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Wang Ching-wei) (May 4, 1883 – November 10, 1944), was a Chinese politician. ... A puppet state is a state whose government, though notionally of the same culture as the governed people - owes its existence (or other major debt) to being installed, supported or controlled by a more powerful entity, typically a foreign power. ...

Born in Nanhai, Guangdong, China in 1892. Chen Gongbo, had been a founder of the Chinese Communist Party and members of its First Congress, but left it the next year. He then lived in the United States for several years in the 1920's, returning to China in 1925. Chen joined the Kuomintang (KMT) being named head of the Department of Peasants. As a member of the KMT leftist clique together with Wang Jingwei in 1927, he was named Minister of Enterprises of the National Government in 1932. He was also a director of the KMT's Sichuan branch. Nanhai (南海) is a district of Foshan prefecture-level city, in Guangdong province, southern China. ... China, and should not be confused with the former Kwantung Leased Territory in north-eastern China. ... Communist Party of China flag The Communist Party of China (Simplified Chinese: 中国共产党; Traditional Chinese: 中國共産黨; pinyin: Zhōnggu ngchǎndǎng) is the ruling party of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Chinese Nationalist Party (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Tongyong Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo Kuo-min-tang), commonly known as the Kuomintang (KMT), is a centre-right political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, and is currently the largest political party in terms of sitting Legislative... (Chinese: 四川; Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; Postal Pinyin: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ...

As the Second Sino-Japanese War went badly in 1938, he and Wang started to cooperate with the Japanese invaders. When the Nanjing Nationalist Government was established Chen became the speaker of the Legislative Yuan and mayor of Shanghai. When Wang was abroad in Japan, he acted as the president of Wang's government and became president of the Executive Yuan. Combatants Republic of China Empire of Japan Commanders Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Tse-Tung, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Zhu De, He Yingqin Hideki Tojo, Matsui Iwane, Jiro Minami, Kesago Nakajima, Toshizo Nishio, Yasuji Okamura. ... The Legislative Yuan building in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City (the view is partially obscured by the childrens hospital building of the National Taiwan University Hospital). ... Shanghai (Chinese: ; pinyin:  ; Shanghainese: ), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, is the largest city of the Peoples Republic of China and the eighth largest in the world. ... The Executive Yuan (行政院; literally executive court) is the executive branch of the government of the Republic of China. ...

At the end of World War II, he fled to Japan and after World War II, immediately following Japan’s formal surrender on September 9, 1945, China’s representative He Yingqin asked Japan’s representative, Okamura Yasuji, to extradite Chen Gongbo to China for trial. Chen Gongbo was escorted back to China on October 3. He was sentenced to death as a traitor and was executed at Suzhou, Jiangsu in 1946. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... He Yingqin He Yingqin (何应钦 in Chinese) (April 2, 1890 - October 21, 1987), was one of the senior generals of Kuomintang in early stage, and a close ally of Chiang Kai-shek. ... General Yasuji Okamura (1884-1966) Yasuji Okamura was a Japanese General, commanding 2nd Division at the begining of the Second Sino-Japanese War. ... Suzhou (Simplified Chinese: 苏州; Traditional Chinese: 蘇州; pinyin: SÅ«zhōu; Wade-Giles: Su-chou; sometimes seen transliterated as Su-chow, Suchow, or Soochow) is a famous city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Taihu in the province of Jiangsu, China. ... Jiangsu (Simplified Chinese: 江苏; Traditional Chinese: 江蘇; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsu) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. ...

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