in 1939, Pan resigned his post and Wen became the mayor. In March 1940 the Wang Jingwei regime was established, while Wen stayed at his post. In February 1943 he resigned Mayor. After the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II, Wen was arrested by Chiang Kai-shek's National Government, and because of the charge of treason and surrender to the enemy (namely Hanjian), he was sentenced to death. However, Wen was not executed while he was imprisoned in Tianjin. At the end of 1948, because the People's Liberation Army's entering Tianjin was coming, Wen was released by the Kuomintang authority. The following January he was rearrested by the Tianjin People's Government, Communist Party of China. Wen Shizhen was executed by the authority of the People's Republic of China in 1951. Alma mater Beiyang Naval College References Footnotes The Before and After of Pan Yugui was appointed to the Fake Mayor of Tianjin () The Official Website of Hebei Ward, Tianjin () 1877 births 1951 deaths Executed Chinese collaborators with Imperial Japan Mayors of Tianjin Republic of China politicians from Tianjin