Foo Ping-sheung

In this Chinese name, the family name is Fu.

Fu Bingchang

Foo Ping-sheung (Chinese: 傅でん秉常; pinyin: Fù Bǐngcháng; 1895–1965) was a diplomat and politician in the early Republic of China and later in Taiwan.

Foo was born to a well off family in Foshan, Guangdong. At the age of ten, he was sent to St. Stephen’s College in Hong Kong, and then trained as a civil engineer at Hong Kong University.

Politics

Foo quickly turned to political service for his uncle by marriage, Wu Ting-fang, then was an attache for the Canton Delegation of the Paris Peace Conference. He became secretary to Sun Yat-sen, an experience which led to his becoming Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government 1927. As a prominent member of the Prince’s Clique (Taizi pai), a political network headed by Sun Ke, the son of Sun Yatsen, Fu held various positions in the Foreign Ministry, then became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang in 1935. He was Republic of China's Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. from 1943 to 1949.

Semi-retirement and later years

Foo retired to Paris and lived there from 1949 to 1956. He then returned to work for Chiang Kai-shek as President of the Anti-Corruption Board and Vice President of the Judicial Yuan in Taiwan until his death in 1965.

Foo was an avid amateur photographer who took informal photos of leading politicians and their families.

Family

Foo's eldest daughter, Katherine (傅でん锦培), married Bin Cheng, a renowned legal scholar who served as Dean of the University College London Faculty of Laws.

Bibliography

• 羅ら香林こうばやし, 傅でん秉常与あずか近代きんだい中国ちゅうごく (1975) (Luo Xianglin, Foo Ping-sheung and modern China)
• 傅でん秉常先生せんせい訪問ほうもん紀き錄ろく (The Reminiscences of Mr. Foo Ping-sheung) (中央ちゅうおう研究けんきゅう院いん近代きんだい史し研究所けんきゅうじょ, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History, Oral History Series No. 45, 1993)
• 蒋介石しょうかいせき最さい后きさき一任驻苏大使傅秉常在苏联的日子 'Foo Ping-sheung: Chiang Kai-shek’s last Ambassador to Soviet Russia', (2007) Republican Archives, Issue 4, pp: 55-60. ISSN 1000-4491.
• Yee-Wah Foo (ed.) Chiang Kaishek’s Last Ambassador to Moscow, The Wartime Diaries of Fu Bingchang (2011) Palgrave Macmillan., ISBN 978-0-230-58477-8

External links

• Fu Bingchang Collection