Jiang Kanghu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jiang Kanghu

Chinese politician

Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1883

Place of Birth: Shangrao, Jiangxi, China

Date of Death: 07-Dec-1954

Profession: politician

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jiang Kanghu (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Jiang Kànghú; Wade–Giles: Chiang K'ang-hu; Hepburn: Ko Koko), who preferred to be known in English as Kiang Kang-hu, (July 18, 1883 – December 7, 1954), was a politician and activist in the Republic of China.
His former name was "Shaoquan" (??) and he also wrote under the name "Hsü An-ch'eng"(???).Jiang was initially attracted by the doctrines of Anarchism and organized the Chinese Socialist Party, the first anarchist-socialist party in China, which existed from 1911 to 1913.
As his politics became more conservative, he founded Southern University in Shanghai, taught at University of California, Berkeley, and became chair of the Department of Chinese Studies at McGill University in Canada.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War he joined the Japanese-sponsored Reorganized National Government of China.
He was arrested as a traitor following the war, and died in a Shanghai jail in 1954.