Journalist Tang Liangli spoke English better than Chinese. He studied at
London University and
Vienna University. In 1925 he acquired a B.Sc (Economics), from London University, and was recommended as a member of the
Royal Economic Society. In 1929, Tang was appointed chief of the Communications Office to Europe, Central Executive Committee,
Kuomintang (). The next year, he returned to China and became
Wang Jingwei's private secretary and a reporter for several foreign presses, including
The New York Times,
The Daily News (London),
The Batavia Newspaper, and the news agency of the
Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was also appointed president of
Lianhua Shubao () and general editor of ''The People's Tribune: A Journal of Fact and Opinion about China and Other Countries'' (China United Press, 1931-1942). In 1931,
Zhou Enlai who managed the central leading authority of the
Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai, was pressured heavily by the Kuomintang. At that time, Tang hid Zhou from the Kuomintang authorities, and with the assistance of a Western friend, enabled Zhou's escape from Shanghai. In 1933, Tang was appointed as an adviser to the Foreign Ministry,
National Government, with minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary status. After that he became a general editor of the
"China Today" Series and the
English Encyclopedia of Modern China. During that time, he wrote extensively in English, with many of his works becoming influential both inside and outside China. Among these are,
The New Currency System in China (1937), which was referred to by
Milton Friedman.
In the Wang Jingwei regime In March 1940, when the
Wang Jingwei regime was established, Tang assumed formal office in the regime. In August of the same year, he was appointed director of the International Publicity Bureau (), remaining at this post until the collapse of the regime following Japan's surrender in 1945. From May to August 1941 he also held the post of Policy Affairs Vice-Minister for the Foreign Affairs Ministry. After the Wang Jingwei regime had collapsed, Tang was arrested by
Chiang Kai-shek's National Government; however, for unknown reasons, he was soon released. In 1949, he returned to Indonesia and lived in
Jakarta. He participated in editing
The Indonesian Review of International Affairs, and was interviewed by Japanese political scientist Tatsuo Yamada (who specialized in Chinese politics) on December 17, 1969. Tang Liangli died in 1975. == Works ==