Chen Lifu

Chen Lifu

Chen Lifu (from August 21, 1900 to February 8, 2001) was born in Wuxing, Zhejiang Province. Father Chen Qiye, the word diligent, brother Chen Zutao, the word fruit husband. In addition, he had pseudonyms of Li Rongqing and Gu Junming. His elder brother is Li Erkang, a famous military educator.

Chen Lifu is one of the most important figures in China in the 20th century. He is a statesman of the Chinese Kuomintang. He has been the confidential secretary of Chiang Kai Shek, the Secretary General of the Kuomintang, the Minister of education, and the vice president of the Legislative Yuan for most of his life. Especially as the Minister of education with the background of studying in the United States, he made outstanding contributions to the development of China's education during the war. Chen Lifu founded the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Chen Lifu, together with Li Linyu and others, founded China Educational Film Association, the first audio-visual education organization in China. Together with Li Linyu and others, Chen Lifu compiled and released China's first Encyclopedic Dictionary of films, China Film Yearbook 1934.

After moving to Taiwan, the Nationalist government moved to the United States to study Chinese culture and promote the development and international recognition of traditional Chinese medicine. In 1969, Chen Lifu returned to Taiwan to settle down. In his later years, he made great efforts to promote cross-strait exchanges. He put forward the theory of "the unification of Chinese culture", which made him occupy a rather special position in the cross-strait relations. His proposal has received positive responses on both sides of the Strait, and he was elected as honorary president of the "Association for the promotion of cross strait peaceful reunification". He died in Taichung on February 8, 2001 at the age of 101.

Biography of characters

Chen Lifu, born on August 21, 1900, graduated from the Mining Department of Beiyang University (now Tianjin University) in 1922.

In 1925, he received a master's degree in mining from the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. In September, he returned to China and served as the confidential secretary of the general office of the president of Huangpu Military Academy, accompanying Chiang Kai Shek.

In 1928, he was the director of the investigation section of the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee.

In 1929, he served as the Secretary General of the Central Party Department of the Kuomintang. He was the youngest Secretary General in the history of the Kuomintang.

In 1931, he was appointed director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang.

In July 1932, he, together with Li Linyu, Zhu Jiahua and other celebrities in the cultural and educational circles, founded China's first audio-visual education organization, China Educational Film Association.

In 1934, he was the chairman of the Land Committee of the national government.

In 1934, Chen Lifu, together with Li Linyu and others, compiled and released the first Encyclopedic Dictionary of Chinese films, China Film Yearbook 1934.

He was Minister of education from 1938 to 1944.

In 1939, he served as a member of the battlefield party and government committee of the national government.

From June 18, 1948 to December 22, 1948, he served as the vice president of the Legislative Yuan of the national government.

I went to Taiwan in 1949.

In 1951, he settled in the United States and established a chicken farm and preserved egg business. At the same time, he made tofu and zongzi at home and sold them to nearby Chinese restaurants for a living.

In 1961, his father Chen Qiye was seriously ill and was allowed to return to Taiwan for the first time.

In 1966, he celebrated Chiang Kai Shek's 80th birthday and returned to Taiwan again.

In 1969, he returned to Taiwan and settled down. He served successively as senior minister of the presidential office, chairman of the presidium of the Central Council, vice chairman of the Implementation Committee of the Chinese cultural renaissance movement, chairman of the board of directors of China Medical College, and chairman of the Confucius and Mencius society.

On July 14, 1988, Chen Lifu, together with 33 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, put forward the proposal of "unifying China with Chinese culture and establishing mutual trust; Jointly Implementing the father of the nation's industrial plan with investment and establishing mutual trust; and striving for the support of the people of the mainland for peaceful reunification." Chen Lifu's special position in cross strait relations was established by the initiation of the theory of Chinese cultural reunification. He was regarded as the "foundation" of "promoting cross strait exchanges and peace" by Taiwan media. Later, he was elected the honorary president of "Association for promoting cross strait peaceful reunification".

In October 2000, he was hospitalized for pneumonia and complicated with myocardial infarction.

He died at the Affiliated Hospital of China Medical College in Taichung at 9 pm on February 8, 2001. He was 101 years old.

Profile

Chen Lifu, born in Wuxing County, Zhejiang Province (now Huzhou City), graduated from Mining Department of Beiyang University, and holds a master's degree in mining science of University of Pittsburgh. In September 1925, he returned to China and served as the confidential secretary of the general office of the president of Huangpu Military Academy, accompanying Chiang Kai Shek. In 1928, he was the director of the investigation section of the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee. In 1929, he was the Secretary General of the party Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee. He was 29 years old. In 1931, he became the head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, and in 1934, he was the chairman of the Land Committee of the national government. In 1938, he became Minister of education until 1944. This important figure in the KMT, together with his brother Chen Guofu, was in charge of the secret service of the KMT. He was called "CC Department" (abbreviated from the first letter of the two brothers' names). The Chen brothers were highly valued by Chiang Kai Shek and were responsible for the spy work inside and outside the party for him. He was also the youngest Secretary General of the Kuomintang. At that time, there was the so-called "Jiang Jiajun, Chen jiadang" theory in the Kuomintang. The CC faction headed by Shuang Chen also deeply influenced the Kuomintang's policies until the 1960s.

Anecdotes and allusions

And Chiang Kai Shek have a long history

The origin of Jiang and Chen started from the relationship between Chen Qimei and Chiang Kai Shek. When Chiang Kai Shek was young, he studied in Japan and met Chen Qimei, who was nine years older than him. In 1916, Chen Qimei was assassinated by Yuan Shikai. At that time, no one dared to deal with it. Only Chiang Kai Shek came to collect his body for him and called himself "Meng Di" in the sacrificial words. It can be seen that they had a lot of friendship. The next generation of the Chen family also used to call Chiang Kai Shek "the third uncle of Chiang Kai Shek.".

In 1917, Chen Lifu was admitted to Tianjin Beiyang university to study industry and mining with the fifth place in Shanghai. After graduation, he went to the United States to study. Just when he was ready to accept the appointment of a mining engineer by Zhongxing Coal Mining Company, his elder brother Chen Guofu sent two telegrams from Chiang Kai Shek. Chiang Kai Shek expressed his hope that he would come to Guangzhou to help himself. Chen Lifu's ambition was not in politics, but because of his elder brother's persuasion and his relationship with Chiang Kai Shek, he went to Guangzhou. Since then, Chen Lifu has stepped into the political arena. It is a lifelong regret that he has not become an engineer. In 1925, Chen Lifu, who returned from studying in the United States, became Chiang Kai Shek's confidential secretary. In 1929, at the age of 29, Chen Lifu was appointed Secretary General of the Central Party Department of the Kuomintang.

Chen Lifu knew Mr. Jiang's temper. When he worked in the Chiang Kai Shek mansion, he often scolded Chiang Kai Shek. So before taking over the post, he said to Mr. Jiang: I have no other requirements, but I can't scold me. "If the headmaster gets angry with me, I'll quit the next day." During his 25 years of service to Chiang Kai Shek, Chiang Kai Shek did not scold him.

The Xi'an incident shocked both at home and abroad. After Jiang was put under house arrest by Zhang and Yang, he Yingqin led the Nanjing government, and Chen Lifu, Chen Guofu and Dai Jitao strongly advocated a military solution. After the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident, the Shaanxi provincial authorities of the Kuomintang built a pavilion in Chiang Kai Shek's hiding place, named "Zhengqi Pavilion". Dai Jitao, Chen Cheng, Chen Guofu, Chen Lifu, Hu zongnan, Wei Lihuang, Wang Yaowu and other important figures of the Kuomintang successively wrote inscriptions in the pavilion to praise Chiang Kai Shek.

Minister of education during the Anti Japanese War

Chen's master's degree in politics was undoubtedly a rarity in China in the 1930s. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Chen Lifu was made Minister of education by Chiang Kai Shek for seven years. Chen Lifu is very proud of this experience. In his memory, he commented on his merits and demerits as follows:

I have devoted myself to the party and the state for decades. I have participated in the work of the party and the government. Success or failure, gain or loss, and need to be fair. Only in the wartime period of educational administration, although it may not be able to achieve the ideal, I have done my best for the country. I always feel that the education and cultural work of cultivating people for a hundred years is the most meaningful and positive work, and the establishment of education and cultural undertakings is the most fruitful "long-distance" investment.

During the Anti Japanese War, Chinese society entered the most difficult period, and Chen Lifu did his best to do a lot for China's education. In just seven years, Chen Lifu has done the following things for China's education cause:

First of all, to meet the needs of the Anti Japanese War, we established a set of systems and programs conducive to wartime education. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, in order to avoid the disaster of the war, colleges and universities in the mainland moved in one after another. However, due to the war, almost all the colleges and universities moved in suffered heavy losses. According to incomplete statistics: among the 108 universities before the war, 94 moved in. The average loss of books and instruments in school buildings is more than 60%, of which 18 cannot be reopened. In addition, under the influence of the Anti Japanese War, teachers and students were indignant, opposed to class, and demanded to devote themselves to the army. After Chen Lifu took office, he thought that students should still take reading as their duty, master knowledge, and then talk about saving the country and the war of resistance. Therefore, he personally drew up the outline of the guidelines for the implementation of Wartime Education at all levels, including "nine major guidelines" and "17 key points for implementation". Its center is "in order to cultivate healthy citizens in all aspects of morality, intelligence and physical education, and make them bear the arduous responsibility of building a new country. Therefore, young people's schooling is their duty from the national standpoint. It is a crisis of the decline of our country that young people abandon their studies. In this way, it not only affirmed the students' enthusiasm for anti Japanese War, but also pointed out a direction for wartime education, so that the chaotic educational circles had a certain degree of stability and norms.

Secondly, we should make great efforts to build Chinese universities. Because of the influence of the western education system, Chinese universities are all western universities

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