Yu Chi-chung
Yu Chi-chung was a Taiwanese writer and public intellectual who founded the China Times, establishing the paper in 1950 and serving as its head until his death in 2002.
Early life and education
Yu was born in Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu, on April 16, 1910. He was orphaned at age four and raised by his mother. His elder sister, Yu Tsung-ying, became a teacher, and his younger sister, Yu Tsung-ling, became the principal of.In 1928, Yu enrolled at National Central University, where he was deeply influenced by Sun Yat-sen's philosophy of Three Principles of the People, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in history in 1932. As an undergraduate, he led a group of student activists to storm the home of the minister of foreign affairs, and joined the National Revolutionary Army under general Hu Zongnan. After being advised by Hu to study abroad, Yu then pursued graduate studies in England at the London School of Economics from 1934 to 1937.
Career
After the Marco Polo Bridge incident, Yu returned to China to serve in the Chinese army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and became an aide to a top Chinese general. He was stationed in Xi'an for most of World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant general and becoming the director of the political department of the Central Military Academy and later the director of the political department of the Northeastern Garrison Command. After the Surrender of Japan, he was tasked with negotiating the return of Manchuria during the Soviet occupation of Manchuria. In 1949, after the Chinese Civil War, he moved to Taiwan during the Great Retreat.''China Daily''
Yu began his first newspaper, the Sino-Soviet Daily, in Shenyang in 1946. After he migrated to Taiwan, he founded The Commercial and Industrial Daily News in 1950, a small newspaper which he produced on a mimeograph, and sold six copies on its first debut. In 1968, he renamed it the China Daily.Yu, as head of the China Times Group, the parent company of the China Times, also owned the China Times Express, and the Commercial Times.
Personal life and death
With his wife Tsai Yu-hui, Yu had two sons, Albert and Frank, and two daughters, Alice and Louisa. He died of liver cancer on April 9, 2002, at his home in Taipei.Additional references
Category:2002 deaths
Category:National Central University alumni
Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics
Category:Taiwanese writers
Category:Taiwanese newspaper founders
Category:People from Changzhou
Category:Deaths from liver cancer