Chen Wei-ping

Chen Wei-ping (Chinese: 陳維屏), also known as W.P. Chen or Wei-ping Chen (born 1879 or 1880 in Beijing, died 1972),[1][2] was educated at Peking Methodist University, Ohio Wesleyan University, University of Michigan and University of Boston. He returned to China in 1916 and became involved with the Chinese Christian press and organisations. He was the Consul General of the Republic of China in Australia from 1931 to 1935, when China did not have an ambassador to Australia.[3] He was succeeded by Pao Chun-jien.[4]

During his time as consul, he sought to increase Chinese exports to Australia and to warn Australians about Japan's increasing militarism and aggression, including publishing books and pamphlets.[5][6][7][8] He also sought concessions surrounding the White Australia policy, making "strong representations from time to time on behalf of aged Chinese, who have fairly substantial business or garden interests in Australia which they cannot continue to look after, but which they do not wish to sacrifice. The Consul-General states that these men wish to return to China to spend their last days, but desire permission for a son or other relative to be admitted into Australia to take their place and carry on the business…"[9]

A history of the KMT in Australasia concluded that Chen "received a great deal of criticism from the community, as he was seen as being more concerned with [KMT] party affairs than with improving the status of the Chinese in Australia."[10]

He gave the inaugural George Ernest Morrison Lecture in Ethnology at Australian National University (expressing the "earnest hope that the Australian people will extend to my countrymen sympathy and trust and that the great nation of China may be united with the great Anglo-Saxon race to preserve the peace of the world.").[11] as well as the fourth.[12]

In later life, Chen was well-known as pastor of Shih‐Ling Church near Taipei, where President and Mrs Chiang Kai‐shek attended services, as they had in Nanking, where he was their personal minister."[2]

References
  1. 近代中国经济学的发展：以留学生博士论文为 中心的考察 第七章 近代留学生与国际贸易理论研究 Doctoral Dissertations by Overseas Chinese Students During the Late Qing and Republication Period: A Study of the Development of Early Modern Chinese Economics Chapter 7:The Research of Early Modern Overseas Chinese Students on International Trade Theories 作 者：邹进文 译 者：中南财经政法大学 罗 莎 指导教师：中南财经政法大学 蔡圣勤
  2. "WEI‐PING CHEN, 96, CHIANGS'". The New York Times. 1972-02-25. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  3. The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954) Fri 14 Aug 1931 Page 10 CHINESE CONSUL TO ARRIVE SOON
  4. "Government Gazette Notices". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001). 24 December 1936. p. 5244.
  5. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) Thu 2 Mar 1933 Page 7 JAPAN ACCUSED
  6. Daily Commercial News and Shipping List (Sydney, NSW : 1891 - 1954) View title info Mon 13 Nov 1933 Page 4 ONE WAY TRAFFIC.
  7. The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder (NSW : 1913 - 1954) View title info Tue 8 Nov 1932 Page 3 CONSUL GENERAL TALKS ON CHINA
  8. Manchuria or Manchukuo? : the effect of three years of Japanese aggression, Chen, W. (Weiping) and China. Tsung ling shih kuan (Sydney, N.S.W.), Sydney, Australia : Consul-General for China, [1934?], Dewey Number 327.518052, Libraries Australia ID 3307383
  9. Li, Zhifu Tiger. Dancing with the Dragon: Australia's Diplomatic Relations with China (1901-1941). Masters thesis. University of Sydney, 2018, p. 83.
  10. Kuo, Mei-fen, and Judith Brett. "Unlocking the History of the Australasian Kuo Min Tang 1911-2013." (2013).
  11. "China & ANU - ANU". Press-files.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  12. "The George e. Morrison Lectures in Ethnology - Australian Centre on China in the World - ANU".
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