Song Ziwen

Chinese politician. Born in Guangdong Province. Graduated from Harvard University in the United States in 1915. As the son of the Soong family, one of the four major families that supported the Chinese Nationalist Party after the death of Sun Yat-sen, he joined the party and government headed by Chiang Kai-shek, and since 1928, he has served as Vice Premier of the Executive Yuan, Minister of Finance, Governor of the Central Bank, and Minister of Foreign Affairs. His lifestyle and ideas were American, and he had deep ties to the United States. In 1940, he was entrusted with being Chiang Kai-shek's personal representative to President Roosevelt, and served as China's representative at the San Francisco Peace Conference after World War II. He served as Premier of the Executive Yuan from June 1945 to 1947 during the Chinese Civil War, and used that position to accumulate wealth. When the People's Liberation Army advanced in 1949, he defected to the United States via France. He returned to Taiwan in 1963, where he spent the rest of his life.

His elder sisters were Soong Ailing (wife of Kong Xiangxi) and Soong Chingling (wife of Sun Yat-sen), and his younger sister was Soong Meiling (wife of Chiang Kai-shek).

[Yuzo Kato]

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中国の政治家。広東(カントン)省の出身。1915年アメリカのハーバード大学卒業。孫文死後の中国国民党を支える四大家族の一つ、宋家の男子として、蒋介石(しょうかいせき)を頂点とする党・政府に参加、1928年以来、行政院副院長、財政部長、中央銀行総裁、外交部長などを歴任した。生活・発想もアメリカ風で、アメリカとの関係が深く、1940年にルーズベルト大統領への蒋介石の個人代表を委任され、第二次世界大戦後のサンフランシスコ講和会議の中国代表などを務めた。1945年6月から1947年まで国共内戦期に行政院院長を務め、その地位を利用して蓄財した。1949年、人民解放軍が進撃するとフランス経由でアメリカに亡命。1963年に台湾に帰国、そこで余生を送った。

　なお、姉は宋靄齢(あいれい)（孔祥煕(こうしょうき)夫人）、宋慶齢(けいれい)（孫文夫人）、妹は宋美齢(びれい)（蒋介石夫人）である。

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