Sheng Zhongliang | |
Office: | Chinese Ambassador to Iraq from to Iraq |
Term Start: | 1950 |
Term End: | 1954 |
Predecessor: | Li Tiezheng |
Successor: | Chih-Ping Chen |
Office2: | Chinese Ambassador to Uruguay from to Uruguay |
Predecessor2: | Tan Shao-hua 谭绍华 |
Successor2: | Wang Chih-chen, with residence in Buenos Aires. |
Birth Date: | 27 August 1907 |
Birth Place: | Shimen County, Hubei, China |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party Kuomintang |
Sheng Zhongliang (August 27, 1907 – March 29, 2007) was a member of the 28 Bolsheviks. He was born in Shimen County, Hubei. He studied at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University in the Soviet Union. He returned to China in January 1933. In August 1934, Li Zhusheng, another member of the 28 Bolsheviks was captured by the Kuomintang and defected, resulting in Sheng's capture on October 4, 1934. On the advice of Gu Shunzhang, another former member of the Chinese Communist Party who had defected to the Kuomintang in 1931, Sheng himself joined the Kuomintang. As a member of the foreign ministry of the Nationalist Government, Sheng served as the Republic of China Ambassador to Uruguay and Iraq.