Serengdongrub
Serengdongrub was an Inner Mongolian politician in the Republic of China. An ethnic Mongol, he was a native of Harqin Middle Banner.Names
His Mongolian name Serengdongrub was transcribed into Chinese characters as. In the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet, it is written Сэрэндонров. He used the Chinese name Pai Yün-t'i, and the courtesy name Chü Ch'uan. Some scholars read his Chinese name as a transcription of another Mongolian name Buyantai, and conflate references to Serengdongrub and Buyantai; however, as Christopher Atwood points, Buyantai was actually another Harqin Mongol, whose Chinese name was Yu Lanzhai or Yu Lanze.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.
