Zhang Renjie (in Chinese 張人傑) or Zhang Jingjiang (張靜江), called in Occident “Curio Zhang” is a politician and business man Chinese (1877 - 1950).

Biography

It is resulting from a rich person family of the Zhejiang. It makes its studies in France, where it is influenced by the socialist ideas. In 1902, it is attached of the Chinese minister to Paris, Sun Baoqi. The same year, it founds in Paris Tonying Company, a company of import-export of works of art (it with this intention accepted three hundred and thousand Chinese dollars of his father, Zhang Dingfu). In 1906, it meets Sun Yat-SEN and entrusts sixty thousand Chinese dollars to him, mainly resulting from the benefit of Tonying Company, with the profit of the revolutionary cause. As from this moment, he became a partisan of the Guomindang. Starting from 1907, it financially helps there a revolutionary review and a survey firm directed by Chinese students. Of return in China, it creates in 1912 an association making it possible young Chinese to study with the college of Montargis, in France, after having learned the French in a school from Beijing. It helps also Tchang Kaï-chek, which will regard it as its “true Master”, to gain the confidence of Sun Yat-SEN in the Années 1910. With died of Sun Yat-SEN (1925), he was recognized like one of the “four former statesmen of Guomindang”. He supported then Tchang Kaï-chek and organized his rise with the capacity in 1926. After the victory of the Guomindang in 1928, it continued to support the capacity of Tchang Kaï-chek. He then became the president of the commission on the national rebuilding, created in 1928 per Guomindang, and governor of Zhejiang (until in 1930). He was then reached of paralysis. He calls itself then, by derision, the Cicada lying. When the Sino-Japanese war burst, he flees China in 1938. He settled initially in Europe, then with New York following the release of the Second world war. He died in New York the September 3rd 1950.

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