Native Name: | 蔡公時 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Birth Date: | 1 May 1881 |
Birth Place: | Jiujiang, Jiangxi, Qing China |
Death Place: | Jinan, Shandong, China |
Nationality: | Republic of China |
Children: | 2 |
Occupation: | Politician |
Cai Gongshi (; May 1, 1881May 3, 1928) was a Chinese nationalist politician and diplomat. Born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, Cai studied economics and politics at Imperial University in Tokyo, Japan, earning a master's degree. Upon his return to China, he joined Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang (KMT), and later served in various roles in the Chinese nationalist government.[1] In 1927, he was appointed Superintendent of Customs and Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Nanjing. On 1 May 1928, he was appointed Commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Shandong province, and was tasked with negotiating for Japanese withdrawal from the province. He was subsequently killed on 3 May by Japanese soldiers during the Jinan incident. According to Chinese sources, the Japanese soldiers broke his leg, smashed his teeth, cut out his tongue, and shot him.[2] 16 other members of his negotiation team were also mutilated and killed on the same day. On May 1928, 11[3] or 7 Japanese were shot to death by a Chinese man in Kobe, Japan, in revenge for the Jinan incident and then he committed suicide.[4]
thumb|200px|left|Statue of Cai Gongshi in the memorial garden for the Jinan Incident in Jinan's Baotu Spring Park