Wang Zhengting

Who is Wang Zhengting?

Wang Zhengting was a diplomat in the Republic of China. Wang was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang, and his father was a Methodist minster just outside Shanghai, where Wang attended mission schools before entering the preparatory school for the Peiyang University. After teaching in the Provincial High School in Changsha, Hunan. Wang studied in Tokyo, where he was secretary of the Chinese YMCA, then in 1907, went to the United States to study law at the University of Michigan. He soon transferred to Yale University, graduating in 1910 and being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He returned to Shanghai in June, 1911, and took another position with the YMCA before being recruited to join the new Republican government in Beijing, then in Sun Yat-sen's opposition government in Canton.

He served as a Chinese delegate under Wellington Koo during the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 after World War I and served as foreign minister, minister of finance, and acting premier for various short periods of time from 1924–1928, before serving as foreign minister until 1931.