Shen Junru

Shen Junru

Shen Junru (from January 2, 1875 to June 11, 1963) is a native of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. His ancestral home is No. 2, nanbangan, Jiaxing City. Now it is rebuilt into a memorial hall of Shen Junru. Qing Guangxu Jiachen (1904) Jinshi.

He studied in Japan in 1905. After returning to China, he took part in the revolution of 1911 and the struggle against the Northern Warlords. He joined the Chinese League in 1912. During the May 4th movement, he advocated new morality and new culture. He used to be a member of the national assembly, the procurator general of the General Prosecutor's office of the Guangdong military government, and the provost of Shanghai University of law. In 1935, he and Song Qingling initiated and organized the National Salvation Association, actively carried out the Anti Japanese movement, offended the authorities and was jailed, and became the famous leader of the "seven gentlemen" of the National Salvation Association. After that, he made a great contribution to opposing the civil war, seeking peace, establishing and expanding the patriotic united front, and was one of the founders of the China Democratic Alliance. He attended the Fifth Congress of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers held in Berlin and was elected vice president of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers.

Since the founding of new China, he has successively served as president of the Supreme People's court, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic League. He is known as "the banner of the Democratic left" and "a glorious example of patriotic intellectuals".

Life of the characters

Shen Junru was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province on January 2, 1875. He was intelligent since he was a child. He is known for his ability to write poetry at the age of 7 (actually 5). At the age of 13, he became a poet. At the age of 15, the scholar got the first prize, and poetry and Fu ranked first. When he was a teenager, Shen Junru attached great importance to the cultivation of personal morality. The family environment influences Shen Junru's ideology and morality and his life. In the late Qing Dynasty, the deep suffering of the motherland inspired Shen Junru's patriotism. When Shen Junru was 19 years old, the Sino Japanese war broke out. Seeing that the foreign invasion was getting deeper and deeper, he was more concerned about the current affairs and wrote several poems to express his passion for the country and the world. In 1900, Shen Junru and his brother Shen Baoru went to the Sanyuan academic department of Shaanxi Province to review papers. In Shaanxi, he and Yu Youren, a student of Shen Wei, founded Sanyuan publishing house, reprinted books written by Kang Liang, and talked about the reform revolution. In 1903, Shen Junru was elected to the provincial examination. The next year, Ying Dian got the title of "giving Jinshi origin" and was signed as the head of Guizhou Department of the Ministry of punishment. At that time, Shen Junru saw that Japan became increasingly rich and strong after the reform, so he applied to study in Japan, hoping to find a way out for the revitalization of the motherland. In the autumn of 1905, he was sent to Japan by the Qing government to study in the Political Department of the law and Politics Department of Tokyo Private University of law and politics, and then entered the supplementary course. He graduated and returned to China in April 1908. In September 1908, Shen Junru served as the general counsellor of the Preparatory Office of Zhejiang consultative Bureau. In the spring of the next year, he, together with Ruan Xingcun, Chu Fucheng and Chen Jingdi, organized the constitutional national society to promote the constitutional movement in Zhejiang Province. In October, he was elected vice president of Zhejiang Provincial Consultative Bureau. At the same time, Shen Junru took part in the Congress petition conference sponsored by Jiangsu Provincial Consultative Bureau. He went to Beijing three times to petition for the quick opening of the Congress, but all failed. From then on, he saw that the so-called preparatory constitutionalism of the Qing government was just a kind of deception, and he was determined to turn to revolution. In the summer of 1909, Mr. Shen Junru served as the supervisor (principal) of Zhejiang government two-level normal school (formerly located in Hangzhou high school). In 1911, during the revolution of 1911, he worked with Chen Shixia as the design preparation for the political organization of Zhejiang uprising. In early 1912, Shen Junru was elected vice president of Zhejiang Education Association and member of Zhejiang provisional Parliament. In February, he served as the director of the Education Department of Zhejiang Province. During his tenure, he reorganized the schools in the province and revolutionized many schools in the education system. At the end of the year, he resigned from various administrative positions and was elected as an alternate member of the Senate of Zhejiang Province. In April 1912, Shen Junru was elected as a member of the United Republican Party. In May, he was introduced by Chu Fucheng and Gu Naibin to join the Chinese League. In August, he became a member of the Kuomintang. About this time, he joined the Nanshe. In 1913, he supported the joint impeachment of Yuan Shikai by members of Congress and actively participated in the drafting of the draft constitution of the temple of heaven. In September, the Kuomintang's "second revolution" failed. In June 1916, Li Yuanhong became president, and Shen Junru was sent as Zhejiang representative to Beijing to discuss national policies. In March 1917, he served as secretary of the Ministry of justice and participated in the Political Science Society headed by Zhang yaozeng and Li Gengen. Later, he resigned as secretary of the Ministry of justice. In June 1918, Shen Junru was appointed as a full-time member of the Guangzhou parliament to participate in the activities of the Senate and the constitution making in Guangzhou. In September and October 1919, in order to destroy the military unification plan of Duan Qirui's government, he ordered to go to Fujian and sneak into the pan guogang Department of the Zhejiang army, so that the Department was separated from the command of the Northern Warlords and remained neutral. In September 1920, he served as the procurator general of the General Prosecutor's office of the French military government. He left in October and returned to Shanghai. After returning to Shanghai, he studied Marx's Das Kapital and wrote a new theory on family to discuss family and social problems. In 1922, he was the chief writer of Zhonghua Xinbao. In June of the same year, he went north as Secretary General of the Senate. In August, he was elected to the constitution Drafting Committee of the national assembly. In June 1923, in order to oppose Cao Kun's bribery, he resigned as Secretary-General and went to Shanghai. Together with the members from Beijing, he frequently sent telegrams and manifestos to attack, expose and denounce Cao Kun's illegal bribery. In November 1924, Shen Junru and other members of Congress jointly issued a declaration on the establishment of an extraordinary session of Congress, in an attempt to fight against Duan Qirui and his proposed aftermath meeting in order to safeguard the provisional treaty. In the end, it broke up with no result. in 1926, he served as the administrative Councilor and Secretary General of Zhejiang provincial provisional government. In September 1926, together with Chu Fucheng, Shen Enfu, Huang Yanpei, he organized the union of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces to oppose the warlord sun Chuanfang and welcome the northern expedition of the national revolutionary army. When Chiang Kai Shek launched the "April 12" counter revolutionary coup, he and Chu Fucheng were arrested at the same time and nearly killed. In the autumn of 1927, he served as the dean of Shanghai Law University (later renamed Shanghai Law College). He insisted on democratic school running, advocated academic freedom and free association, and cultivated many legal professionals, such as famous jurists Sha Qianli and Lin Hengyuan. After 1928, he served as the dean of Shanghai Law University (later changed to Shanghai law school, and merged into Shanghai University of Finance and economics in 1950), and performed the law practice. He founded Zhengxing women's middle school in 1933 and served as the chairman of the board of directors. In 1935, he also served as the principal himself. At the same time, he worked as a lawyer in Shanghai, and was praised by the lawyers for his courage to uphold justice and bravery. In 1933, he joined the China Civil Rights Protection League, served as a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Shanghai Branch, and was later elected as an executive member of the Shanghai Branch. In April, Chen Geng and others, together with seven other people, including Song Qingling and Cai Yuanpei, were elected as members of the Committee for the rescue of political prisoners of the Civil Rights Protection Alliance. In December 1935, he led the establishment of the Shanghai Cultural rescue Congress and issued a declaration in support of the "12.9" student movement. After the September 18th Incident, Shen Junru took part in the Anti Japanese and national salvation movement. When the "January 28" war broke out, he went all out to support the 19th Route Army in the Songhu Anti Japanese war. In December 1935, he and some patriotic progressive figures in Shanghai cultural circles, such as Ma Xiangbo and Zou Taofen, issued the declaration of the movement of saving the nation in Shanghai cultural circles, organized Shanghai cultural circles to save the Congress, and served as executive members. In January of the next year, it was expanded to be the chairman of the Shanghai Federation of saving the nation from all walks of life. On May 31, it formed the National Federation of saving the nation from all walks of life with the Anti Japanese forces from all walks of life, serving as the executive member and standing member, responsible for organizational work. In 1936, the National Salvation Association issued a declaration to save the nation. In May of the same year, it participated in the National National Salvation Association established by Song Qingling, Ma Xiangbo and other leaders. On November 23, 1936, Shen Junru, Zhang Naiqi, Zou Taofen, Li Gongpu, Shi Liang, Wang Zaoshi, and Sha Qianli were arrested by the Kuomintang government and became the famous "seven gentlemen" prison. In order to resist Japan and save the nation, Shen Junru and others put their personal safety at risk and fought against the reactionaries indomitably. After the July 7 Anti Japanese War, the Kuomintang authorities forced the situation and released the "seven gentlemen" on bail on July 31, 1937. In 1938, he was a member of the National Political Council on behalf of the National Salvation Association. During the Anti Japanese War, the civil law aid association was organized to defend the persecuted people, families of Anti Japanese soldiers and progressive books and magazines. He also organized the Anti Japanese National Salvation Association in Hankou. He came to Chongqing in October 1938. Since then, he has been fighting against the Kuomintang government mainly around the following issues: persisting in the protracted war of resistance, persisting in domestic unity, opposing compromise and surrender; persisting in democracy, striving for the people's democratic freedom, opposing dictatorship; demanding the early implementation of democratic constitutionalism. Finally, it was not allowed by the Kuomintang and was excluded from the list of the third members of the National Political Council published in July 1942. At the beginning of September 1939, he, Zou Taofen and Zhang Naiqi initiated the establishment of the United Nation Building comrades Association in Chongqing. In 1941, in order to mediate the conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the comrades' Association for the reunification and the founding of the people's Republic of China was reorganized into the third party alliance of China's democratic political groups, and Shen Junru was appointed chairman of the Chinese people's National Salvation Association. In September 1944, the China Democratic League was reorganized into the China Democratic League, and was elected as the executive member and standing member of the Central Committee. In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally. In December, the National Salvation Association decided to change its name to the Chinese people's National Salvation Association according to the changes in the situation. Shen Junru was elected president. In January 1946, he served as the representative of the Democratic League to the Political Consultative Conference, participated in the old political consultative conference, and worked closely with the representatives of the Communist Party of China to strive for peace, unity, democracy and unity. When the Kuomintang reactionaries tore up the old CPPCC resolution and ordered the convening of the puppet National Congress, they issued a statement on behalf of the NLD to resolutely oppose the puppet National Congress. Min in 1947

Chinese PinYin : Shen Jun1 Ru