Sheng Zhongliang Explained

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.

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