Lu Zongyu
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Lu Zongyu (Template:Zh; 1876–1941) was a pro-Japanese Chinese diplomat at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I. Because of subscribing the Twenty-One Demands supporting Japanese interests, along with Zhang Zongxiang and Cao Rulin, he was labeled as a Hanjian ("traitor to the Chinese people") by students participating in the May Fourth Movement.
Originally from Zhejiang, Lu was educated in Japan and returned to China where he was a lecturer at Beijing College of Law and Administration.[1][2] At the time of the instigation of the May Fourth Movement, Lu was the director-general of the Chinese Mint; the president of China, Xu Shichang, was forced to compel his resignation, along with Zhang and Cao's, after months of demonstrations, strikes, and meetings.[3]
After his death, he received the courtesy name Runsheng.[2]