Tang Hualong

Tang Hualong (1874 – September 1, 1918), was the education minister from 1914 to 1915 and the interior minister in 1917 in the Republic of China.[1]

Biography

He was born in 1874. A prominent member of the Progressive Party of China, Tang served in the government of Xu Shichang. He was assassinated on September 1, 1918 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada by a local Chinese barber named Wong Chun (1886–1918), who later killed himself.[1][2]

References

1. "Tang Hualong". Rulers.org. Retrieved 2009-08-26. [He was] education minister (1914-15) and interior minister (1917) of China; brother of Tang Xiangming. A successful candidate in the imperial examination, he joined the constitution movement in 1908 after studying abroad in Japan and was subsequently named president of the Union of Provincial Councils. November 1911 saw the founding of the Hubei Military Government, of which he was named chief advisor. ... Tang, who was returning from an official visit to the United States intended to secure war loans, was assassinated in Canada by a Kuomintang member named Wang Chang (1886-1918), who killed himself thereafter.
2. "The mysterious oriental mind: ethnic surveillance and the Chinese in Canada during the Great War". Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal. Retrieved 2009-08-26. On 1 September 1918, in Victoria, British Columbia, a local Chinese barber named Wong Chun assassinated Tang Hualong, a Chinese government minister ...