Dong Xianguang

Dong Xianguang

Dong Xianguang is a very famous figure in the history of modern Chinese press. In his career, there are many things worth writing, which is undoubtedly the most wonderful one.

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In 1930, Dong Xianguang was appointed general manager and general manager of the mainland newspaper. During the Anti Japanese War, he successively served as vice minister of the Fifth Department of the Military Commission of the national government and vice minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang. Almost all involved in the design and implementation of foreign publicity copy to personnel training. He also set up English, French, German, Russian, Japanese and other foreign language workshops. In 1947, he became a member of the executive yuan of the national government and director of information. In 1949, Dong moved to Taiwan with the national government as the general manager of China Broadcasting Corporation and chairman of the central daily. On August 13, 1952, he became the first post-war Ambassador of Taiwan to Japan. In 1956, Dong was appointed ambassador of Taiwan to the United States. In 1958, Dong retired and returned to Taiwan as a senior official in the office of the leader of the Taiwan authorities. In 1970, Dong immigrated to the United States. On January 9, 1971, he died in New York. He was 84 years old. He was a famous journalist, journalist and diplomat in the period of the Republic of China. Dong Xianguang was born in 1887 in a Christian peasant family in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Both his parents were members of the Presbyterian Church. He read scriptures and prayed with his parents when he was young, and received the influence of Christian faith. Due to the poverty of the family, he was not able to enter a church primary school in Suzhou until he was 10 years old. Then he studied in the Lowrie high school and the Anglo Chinese college, laying a good foundation for his Chinese and English. After graduation, he applied to teach English at Longjin middle school in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province, where he met Jiang Zhongzheng, who was studying in the middle school. In 1906, Dong Xianguang resigned and worked in Shanghai Commercial Press. One year later, with the help of the church, he went to the United States to study. He successively studied in Park College, Missouri, the University of Missouri School of Journalism (1908-1912), and Columbia University, New York (1913). During his stay in Columbia, he worked for the famous New York Times and accumulated valuable experience for his future development. In 1913, Dong Xianguang returned to China and first served as the correspondent of several Shanghai newspapers in Beijing. After being introduced by Dr. Sun Yat Sen, he returned to Shanghai to take up the post of vice president of China Republic, an English language newspaper, and thus began his colorful career as a journalist. In 1914, he went to Beijing again to serve as the English Secretary of the Beijing Daily News and the English Secretary of the National Petroleum Commission. In 1918, he was promoted to Shanghai's Millard's review. since 1920, Dong Xianguang has been engaged in politics. He has successively served as a consultant to the Ministry of communications of the Beiyang government and executive secretary of the railway economic and financial committee. Because of his outstanding achievements, he has been honored three times. Five years later, he returned to the newspaper industry and served as the editor of Tianjin Yong daily for six years. In 1926, he served as Wu Peifu's foreign affairs adviser, while from 1920 to 1930, he served as the English Secretary of Du Xigui, a Naval General, and accompanied him on global expeditions. In the early 1930s, Dong Xianguang's focus of work shifted to the administration of the newspaper industry. He successively served as the general manager of Shanghai's China Press, the publisher of China times, tawanpao and Shun Shih news agency, and became a leading figure in the Shanghai Press. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese war in 1937, Dong Xianguang took the lead in setting up an anti Japanese Committee in the Shanghai concession. He joined hands with Wen Yuanning and Liu zhanen to carry out Anti Japanese propaganda and dealt a heavy blow to the enemy. In view of his contribution, the national government called him to be the Vice Minister of the Fifth Department of the CMC, and ordered him to establish an international propaganda office. He did his duty to let the international community know the truth of China's Anti Japanese War through various methods and channels. In 1942, Dong Xianguang went to India with Jiang Zhongzheng for two weeks to talk with Mahatma Gandhi; at the end of the same year, he went to the United States with Jiang songmeiling for six months; in 1943, he went to Egypt with Jiang Zhongzheng to attend the Cairo Conference. In 1947, Dong Xianguang became the first director of information; the next year, he became a member of the Executive Yuan. In 1949, he was transferred to Taiwan with the national government and successively served as the chairman of the Kuomintang's central daily and the general manager of China Broadcasting Corporation. In 1952, Dong Xianguang became ambassador plenipotentiary to Japan and became a diplomat. Four years later, in April 1956, he became ambassador plenipotentiary to the United States. In September 1958, after retiring from politics, he was also employed as a "national policy adviser" in the office of the leader of the Taiwan authorities at the age of 70. Dong Xianguang is also very devout in his religious life. He has been a believer in Christ since he was a child. No matter he is studying at home or abroad, or in the workplace or officialdom, he always adheres to Christian life and goes to church every Sunday. When the national government established Nanjing as its capital, he served as the first chairman of the Council of Kaige hall. It was a church attended by Chiang Kai Shek, his wife and the politicians of the national government at that time. Although the Kaige hall moved several times with the national government in the later years, Dong Xianguang was always a member of the hall. After his retirement, Dong Xianguang spent the rest of his life preaching, claiming to be an "ambassador to heaven.". The first thing he did was to write the history of Christianity in Taiwan. First of all, he spent more than five months visiting churches, church schools, hospitals, charities, seminaries of various sects in Taiwan, as well as many church personages, and collected rich information. Then he spent more than eight months writing, and finally wrote a history of the Christian Church in Taiwan in English, called christianit yinTaiwan:AHistory . Soon after, it was translated into Chinese as the development of Christianity in Taiwan. The book was published in 1962 and was highly praised by historians. In addition, Dong Xianguang was often invited to preach in various churches. In 1960, he accepted the duty of voluntary evangelism in Taipei Veterans General Hospital to preach the gospel to patients and their families. His 56 sermons on Sunday were later published in books. He and his wife often attend various church gatherings and give generously to support the church's Ministry. In 1961, Dong Xianguang went to the United States to attend the "World Congress of moral reform movement" to visit his children in the United States. Unfortunately, during the stroke, had to stay in the United States for treatment. Ten years later, he died on January 10, 1971 at the age of 84. His old friends and people from all walks of life held a memorial service in Washington and buried him in the garden cemetery in Rockwell City, Maryland. Dong Xianguang's relatives and friends in Taiwan collated and published the words about inspiration and spiritual cultivation in his diaries for decades, which is called "eternal youth". After the book came out, it was published again and again, and sold well for a time.

Lifetime journey

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In 1887, Dong Xianguang was born in a small town about 20 miles southeast of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. In this small town, Dong Xianguang had a very hard and unforgettable childhood. Due to the poverty of the family, the whole family depends on three acres of rice fields for a living. However, because his family is the only Christian family in the small town, his religious life is often difficult for the neighbors to understand. For Dong Xianguang, his childhood was boring. What impressed him deeply was that the teacher was very strict and often punished the students with wooden boards. It was under such circumstances that Dong Xianguang recited "a hundred surnames" and "a thousand characters" from childhood, which was regarded as enlightenment education. Later, because it was difficult to support a family of five, including his parents and two younger sisters, with three mu of paddy field, his father decided to rent the paddy field to others for farming and signed a contract to build a house in Shanghai, so the whole family moved to Shanghai.

Youth

After arriving in Shanghai, Dong Xianguang received a more formal school education. He went to Zhongxi academy, Qingxin middle school and Minli middle school. When Minli middle school was about to graduate, his father died. Because his family had no income, Dong Xianguang had to give up his studies and go to the society to find something to do. After receiving the invitation from Longjin middle school in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province, he immediately decided to become an English teacher in his hometown middle school. During one year of teaching in Longjin middle school, Dong Xianguang met the class student Chiang Kai Shek. Although the teacher-student relationship lasted only four months (from January to April in 1904), it laid the foundation for their later life. Later, Dong Xianguang mentioned in his autobiography that there were two impressions "unforgettable to this day". First, Chiang Kai Shek got up very early and often stood on the balcony of his dormitory for half an hour after dressing up. He closed his lips and crossed his arms, showing a kind of meditation. Second, he is waiting for the newspaper from Shanghai every day. In 1907, Dong Xianguang married Ms. Zhao Yinxiang, whom he fell in love with when he was studying in Qingxin middle school

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