Zhou Gengsheng

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Zhou Gengsheng (18 March 1889 – 20 April 1971) was a Chinese jurist, historian and academic. Born in Changsha County, Hunan, he came from a family of teachers. He studied political economy at Waseda University in Japan, where he joined the Tongmenghui, and later earned a master's degree in political economy from the University of Edinburgh and a doctorate in international law from the University of Paris. He taught at Peking University and Wuhan University, and served as president of Wuhan University from 1945 to 1949. After 1949, he held senior government and foreign affairs roles, including vice chairman of the Central-South Military and Political Committee (overseeing Guangdong, Hainan, Henan, Hubei and Hunan), adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and director of the Committee of International Treaties at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was a personal friend of Zhou Enlai and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1956. He died in Beijing in 1971 at age 82.