Serengdongrub

Serendongrub
ᠰᠡᠷᠡᠩᠳᠣᠩᠷᠣᠪ
Serengdongrub as pictured in The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries[1]
Chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission
In office 26 November 1948 – 6 June 1949
Preceded by	Xu Shiying
Succeeded by	Guan Jiyu [zh]
Personal details
Born	(1894-02-17)17 February 1894 Harqin Middle Banner, Qing dynasty
Died	2 August 1980(1980-08-02) (aged 86) Taiwan
Political party	Kuomintang
Other political affiliations	Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	色楞棟魯布
Simplified Chinese	色楞栋鲁布
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sèléngdònglǔbù[2] Wade–Giles Se Leng Tung Lu Pu
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Сэрэндонров
Mongolian script	ᠰᠡᠷᠡᠩᠳᠣᠩᠷᠣᠪ

Serengdongrub^[a][b][3] (17 February 1894 – 2 August 1980), courtesy name Chü Ch'uan (Chinese: 巨川) and also known under the Chinese name of Pai Yün-t'i (Chinese: 白雲梯), was an Inner Mongolian politician in the Republic of China.^[4] An ethnic Mongol, he was a native of Harqin Middle Banner (today Ningcheng County, Chifeng).^[2]

Names

In addition to his Mongolian name, Serengdongrub used the Chinese name Pai Yün-t'i (Chinese: 白雲梯; pinyin: Bái Yúntī). Some scholars read his Chinese name as a transcription of another Mongolian name Buyantai (meaning "meritorious", in Cyrillic Буянтай), and conflate references to Serengdongrub and Buyantai; however, as Christopher Atwood points, Buyantai (布彦泰) was actually another Harqin Mongol, whose Chinese name was Yu Lanzhai or Yu Lanze (??择).^[5]

Career

In 1912, he entered the Mongolian and Tibetan School at Beijing under Gungsangnorbu. Afterwards he joined the Kuomintang. In 1925, he was one of the founders of the Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, along with Merse. In 1934, he became a member of the Mongol Local Autonomy Political Affairs Committee. From 1948 to 1949 he served as head of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission. He retreated to Taiwan with the KMT, and died there in 1980.^[4]

Notes

1. Also written as Serendonrub, Serengdongrob, Serengdonrov, and Serendonrov, among others.
2. Mongolian: ᠰᠡᠷᠡᠩᠳᠣᠩᠷᠣᠪ, Сэрэндонров
   Chinese: 色楞棟魯布

References

1. Asahi Shimbun 1941
2. "近代蒙古族历史人物 — Important figures in modern Mongolian history", Xinhua News, 2005, archived from the original on December 24, 2005, retrieved 2011-08-04
3. Jamsran & Bayasakh 1997, pp. 193–194
4. Hsueh 2004
5. Atwood 2000, p. 97

Bibliography

• Atwood, Christopher (April 2000), "Inner Mongolian Nationalism in the 1920s: A Survey of Documentary Information", Twentieth-Century China, 25 (2): 75–113, doi:10.1179/tcc.2000.25.2.75
• 薛化元 — Hsueh Hua-yuan (2005), "白雲梯", 臺灣歷史辭典 — Taiwan Historical Dictionary, Taipei: National Repository of Cultural Heritage, archived from the original on 2012-03-22, retrieved 2011-08-05
• Jamsran, L.; Bayasakh, J. (1997), Монголын төрийн тусгаар тогтнолын сэргэлт — Study on the Mongolian struggle for freedom, Mongolian Academy of Science, OCLC 41649537
• 最新支那要人伝 — Newest Bibliographies of Important Figures in China, 朝日新聞社 — Asahi Shimbun Company, 1941, OCLC 23310651

Further reading

• Boorman, Howard L. (1967), "Buyantai", Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, Volume 1, Columbia University Press, pp. 6–9, OCLC 411998; however, note that Atwood 2000, p. 97 warns against reliance on this entry due to "massive errors of fact and interpretation", including the name under which it is filed.