In the 26th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1900), he was a scholar. Guangxu took an examination of "essays" in Taiwan Province for 30 years and was admitted to Shanxi University. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu, he took the official examination of studying in Japan in Shanxi Province, ranking first. In the second year of the Republic of China (19 13), Cai Yuanpei left the Ministry of Education and returned to Taiyuan as the principal of Shanxi Law and Politics School. After the failure of the imperial system, he also served as the principal of Shanxi Law and Politics School. 16 years (1927), Shanxi participated in the Northern Expedition. Ji served as director of the Justice Department of Shanxi Province and president of the High Court of Shanxi Province of Kuomintang government. /kloc-in 0/8, the Ministry of Justice was abolished, and all the staff members were named and left the court. However, he retired alone and went to teach at Shanxi University in February1year. He served as a member of the Shanxi Provincial Government and director of the Education Department. Ji finally resigned in the name of his father's illness before the July 7th Incident.
In the autumn of the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), the Japanese aggressor troops advanced on Shanxi, and Ji took his father and young son to Hankou.
1939 went to the United States as the editor-in-chief of Overseas Chinese Daily.
In 36 years of the Republic of China (1947), seeing the great situation of successive victories in the civil war of liberation, Ji returned to China with the joy of welcoming the birth of new China, and taught in Peking University as the head of the law department. Ji Gongquan has a lot of works, including Ethics, General Theory of Law, Philosophy of Law, Abstracts of Foreign Treaties, etc. The translated works include President Roosevelt's speech.
After 1949, he served as director of the Third Department of China University of Political Science and Law, member of the Central Legal Committee, representative of Shanxi Provincial People's Congress, member of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference, director of the Provincial Cultural and Educational Committee and vice chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference. He participated in the drafting of the marriage law and the release of Japanese prisoners of war.
1August, 967, died in Beichizi apartment in Beijing at the age of 85.
His son Ji and Ji also made important contributions to the motherland.
Mr. Ji Gongquan, the father of former UN Under-Secretary-General Ji (1882— 1967), 1882 was born in Jianchang Village, our city. He is a famous educator and patriotic Democrat at home and abroad. After liberation, he served as the director of three departments of China University of Political Science and Law, member of the Central Legal Committee, director of the Shanxi Provincial Culture and Education Committee, and vice chairman of the CPPCC (1-3).
From 1939 to 1947, Mr. Ji Gongquan lived in the United States for eight years. His little-known experience has always been closely linked with the fate of the motherland and the liberation of the people of China. Now it is described as follows, in memory of this patriot who deserves respect and remembrance.
Zhou Enlai sent him to work in the United States.
Ji Gongquan went to the United States on orders from Zhou Enlai.
1939, Ji Gongquan's eldest son Ji returned from the United States. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Ji accepted a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study the China issue, and returned to China this time to collect information. At that time, Ji Gongquan started as a lawyer in Hankou Concession. Father and son meet, of course, very happy. Before long, the Japanese army advanced to Hankou, and Ji Gongquan's family quickly chartered seaplanes to fly to Chongqing. Comrade Zhou Enlai originally planned to arrange Ji to work in Yan 'an, but when he learned that Ji had suddenly got acute appendicitis, he was rushed to the hospital and missed the opportunity to go to Yan 'an. Comrade Zhou Enlai changed his decision, summoned Ji Gongquan and Ji, and asked them to go to the United States to expand the anti-French United front.
According to Wang Xiangtong, the wife of the UN Under-Secretary-General, in her book My Husband Ji Zhu Chao, there were two tasks entrusted to Ji and his son by comrades at that time: first, to promote the establishment and development of the international anti-fascist United front in the global anti-fascist war; The second is to promote the friendship between the Chinese and American people, and urge the American people to support the Japanese people in resisting China and establishing a new China.
Ji Gongquan gladly accepted the task, left Chongqing with his wife Zhang, eldest son Ji, fourth son Ji, fifth son Ji and daughter, went to Wan Li via Kunming, Saigon, Singapore and France, and arrived in New York, USA at the beginning of 1939 10. Since then, I have started a new life in America.
As the editor-in-chief of Overseas Chinese Daily.
Soon after Ji Gongquan arrived in the United States, he got in touch with Xu He in the underground party member in the United States. According to the instructions of Comrade Zhou Enlai, * * * co-founded the Overseas Chinese Daily, with Ji Gongquan as the editor. The newspaper has become an important position for our party to publicize the war of resistance in the United States and has had a great influence in the local area. Nowadays, some Chinese elderly people who are still alive mention the Overseas Chinese News, which is still fresh in their memories and very cordial.
At that time, the life of Ji Gongquan's family was quite difficult, and Ji Gongquan's income in the Overseas Chinese News was too small to make a living. According to Ji Heji (Zhi Feng), their mother, Zhang, is good at painting and once earned some money from selling paintings to supplement her family. Ji's wife, Wang Xiangtong, mentioned the life at that time in her works: "A family of five rented an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan 12 Street in new york, with a monthly rent of $35. Xiao Zhuchao saw cockroaches crawling all over the floor in the dilapidated apartment building, and the white ash on the wall fell off one by one. He said in surprise: "Who said that the United States is rich and the United States is poor! " "
Join the US War Intelligence Agency.
19411February 8th (local time 7th), the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the Pacific War broke out. The U.S. Navy was badly hit, and it was anxious to know about the situation in Asia, especially Japan, so it hired Ji Gongquan, who had studied in Japan and now worked in the anti-fascist camp, to work in the Pacific Division of the American War Information Agency (OWI), mainly engaged in anti-fascist propaganda. Tang Mingzhao also works part-time. According to Wang Xiangtong, Ji Gongquan worked in the War Information Agency until 1947 (when he returned to China, he was the head of the law department of Peking University).
Later, the US Bureau of War Intelligence and the office of strategic services (OSS) merged into the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Cultivate and educate children to serve the motherland.
In the United States, Ji Gongquan has a heavy task and a heavy burden of life, but in a foreign country, he still pays attention to cultivating and educating children. He should take advantage of the opportunity to learn more knowledge and skills and return to China to serve in the future. His noble character of loving the motherland and being upright and upright is a silent demonstration for his children.
Zhang Ziji was born in 1903. 13 years old, admitted to Tsinghua University. 2 1 year-old went to the United States to study and obtained a doctorate in economics. At the age of 24 (1927), he joined the China * * * production party. This time, he went to the United States again with his father and worked in the Workers' Daily of China Bureau in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, USA. With the support of his family, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the revolutionary cause and made outstanding contributions. After the "Pearl Harbor Incident" broke out, he returned to the motherland and entered the Kuomintang-controlled area to engage in the underground work of the Party.
The fourth son Ji loves literature and art. After he arrived in the United States, with the encouragement of his family, he took an active part in anti-Japanese literature and art activities. He once co-starred with Wang Ying, a famous actor and director of the American East-West Cultural Association, in revolutionary plays such as the English drama "Put Down Your Whip", which was warmly welcomed by people from all walks of life.
After the fifth son Ji Zhu Chao arrived in new york, his parents immediately sent him to an eight-year school. After graduation, he was admitted to a famous private middle school and then to Harvard University. He chose the chemistry department, which was directed by his father. Ji Gongquan said to him, "Shanxi produces coal, so you should study chemistry and return to China to serve the development of coal energy." Ji was influenced by his father since childhood, caring about the country and the people, and taking the rejuvenation of China as his own responsibility. As long as it is beneficial to the country and people, he always goes forward without hesitation. 1in the spring of 949, Ji joined the American * * * production party and took the step of pursuing light and truth. Then, he went to the Marxist-Leninist College in the United States, attended a reading meeting organized by the central peripheral organizations, and studied Marxist-Leninist theory, which laid an ideological and theoretical foundation for returning to China in the future. After the Korean War broke out, he voluntarily gave up the opportunity to enjoy scholarships for further study, resolutely applied to the school to drop out, returned to his dream motherland, and embarked on a new revolutionary journey.