Ding Mocun

Ding Mocun (simplified Chinese: 丁默村; traditional Chinese: 丁默邨; pinyin: Dīng Mòcūn; Wade–Giles: Ting Mo-ts'un; Hepburn: Tei Mokuson; 1901 – July 5, 1947), also known as Ding Lesheng (Chinese: 丁勒生; pinyin: Dīng Lèshēng), was a politician in the early Republic of China. During Japanese occupation, he was a prominent figure in the secret police of the collaborationist regime.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ding (丁).
Ding Mocun
丁默邨
Born1901
Changde, Hunan
DiedJuly 5, 1947
Suzhou, Jiangsu
NationalityChinese

Early life

Born in Changde, in Hunan Province, Ding was initially a member of the Chinese Communist Party, but later became a Kuomintang politician active in Shanghai.

Career

He rapidly rose within the Kuomintang hierarchy with the support of the so-called "Central Club Clique" led by Chen Lifu and by 1934 chaired the Research and Statistics Department, which was a cover for the Kuomintang secret police. However, when forced out of power due to numerous corruption scandals in a reorganization of the Kuomintang in 1938, he defected to the Japanese side along with Li Shiqun. Under the direction of Japanese spymaster Kenji Doihara, the two worked to create an intelligence and secret police security service, which was founded in April 1939 and whose headquarters was located at 76 Jessfield Road in Shanghai. This address contained holding cells, where suspected Communists and Kuomintang prisoners could be interrogated and executed.

Under the collaborationist Reorganized National Government of China led by Wang Jingwei Ding served in the Central Political Committee, the Military Committee, and the Executive Yuan of the Reorganized National Government. He later held the cabinet-level posts as Minister of Society and Minister of Transport in the Reorganized National Government and served at one point as governor of Zhejiang Province.

On December 21, 1939 he escaped an assassination attempt involving Zheng Pingru.

Arrest and death

Following the surrender of Japan and the collapse of the Reorganized National Government of China, Ding was arrested in September 1945 and charged with treason. During his trial, he pleaded that he had been serving with the Nanjing regime as a spy under the orders of Dai Li, the commander of Kuomintang secret service. He was convicted in February 1947 and executed in prison in Suzhou, Republic of China, on July 5, 1947.

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    Political offices
    Preceded by
    Zhu Qinglai    		 Minister for Transport (Wang Jingwei Government)
    1941 — 1943    		 Succeeded by
    office merged with the Ministry of Construction
    Preceded by
    Xiang Zhizhuang    		 Governor of Zhejiang (Wang Jingwei Government)
    May 1945 — August 1945    		 Succeeded by
    office abolished
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