The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries

The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese最新支那要人傳
Simplified Chinese最新支那要人传
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZuìxīn Zhīnà Yàorén Zhuàn
Wade–GilesTsui-hsin Chih-na Yao-jen Chuan
Japanese name
Kanji最新支那要人伝
Transcriptions
RomanizationSaishin Shina Yōjin Den

The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries (Chinese: 最新支那要人傳, Japanese: 最新支那要人伝) is a guide to prominent individuals in the Republic of China, compiled in Japan by The Asahi Shimbun newspaper[1] during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Published on 2 February 1941, the work references 343 contemporary notables in the Kuomintang and the Nationalist government, the Chinese Communist Party, the pro-Japanese Wang Jingwei regime and Mengjiang, and independent politicians and celebrities.[2]

A digitization of the reference work can be found on the website of the National Diet Library of Japan,[3] the full list of biographies follows.

  1. ^ Tōa Mondai Chōsakai (1941). Saishin Shina yōjinden (The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries). Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun. OCLC 23310651.
  2. ^ "The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries". Taiwan e-Learning & Digital Archives Program (in Chinese). Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  3. ^ "The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries". National Diet Library Digital Collection (in Japanese). Retrieved 26 March 2019.

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