Ma Chaochun

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Chinese. (January 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Wikipedia article at [[:zh:马超俊]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|zh|马超俊}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Ma Chaochun
馬超俊
Ma Chao-chun as Mayor c. 1935

Mayor of Nanjing

Personal details
Born	1886 (1886) Taishan, Guangdong, Qing dynasty
Died	1977 (aged 90–91) Taipei, Taiwan

Ma Chao-chun in 1935 with Chinese President Lin Sen

Ma Chao-chun (traditional Chinese: 馬超俊; simplified Chinese: 马超俊; Pinyin: Mǎ Chāojùn; 1886–1977) was the mayor of Nanjing in the period prior to the Battle of Nanking. On December 1, 1937, Ma Chao-chun ordered all Chinese citizens remaining in Nanjing to move into the Nanking Safety Zone. Ma fled the city on December 7, and the International Committee took over as the de facto government of Nanjing.^[1]

He died in Taipei at age 91.^[2]

References

^ Vogel, Ezra F. (2019-07-30). China and Japan: Facing History. Harvard University Press. pp. 258–260. ISBN 978-0-674-24076-6.
^ "MA CHAO‐CHUN". The New York Times. 1977-09-20. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-02.