Zhou Fohai
| Zhou Fohai 周佛海 |
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| Minister of Finance, Treasury, Foreign Affairs of the Nanjing Nationalist Government | |
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In office March 1940 – August 1945 |
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| Mayor of Shanghai | |
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In office December 1944 – August 1945 |
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| Preceded by | Chen Gongbo |
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| Born | 29 May 1897 Hunan, Qing Dynasty |
| Died | 28 February 1948 (aged 50) Nanjing, Republic of China |
| Nationality |
 Republic of China
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| Political party |
 Kuomintang
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| Alma mater | Kyoto Imperial University |
Zhou Fohai (Chinese: 周佛海; pinyin: Zhōu Fóhǎi; Wade–Giles: Chou Fo-hai; Hepburn: Shū Futsukai; May 29, 1897 – February 28, 1948), Chinese politician, and second in command of the Executive Yuan in Wang Jingwei's collaborationist Reformed Government of the Republic of China.
Zhou was born in Hunan Province in the Empire of China, where his father was an official in the Qing Dynasty administration. After the Xinhai Revolution, he was sent to Japan for studies, attending the No. 7 Military Preparatory School (the predecessor of Kagoshima University), followed by Kyoto Imperial University. During his stay in Japan, he became attracted to Marxism, and on his return to China, became one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party. He attended the First Congress in Shanghai in July 1921, but quit the Communist Party in 1924 to join the Kuomintang. He was assigned as a secretary to the Public Relations Department of the central government, but maintained strong ties with the party’s leftist clique, headed by Wang Jingwei and Liao Zhongkai. He strongly opposed Chiang Kai-shek’s Northern Expedition and Chiang Kai-shek’s conduct of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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