Hsiao T'ung-tzu (1894-), director of the Central News Agency from 1932 to 1950. Ch'angning, Hunan, was the birthplace of Hsiao T'ung-tzu. Little is known of his early life. He was graduated from Hunan Industrial College in Changsha in 1917. His first known activities were in connection with the Hunan labor movement in the winter of […]

Liu Chan-en (1896-7 April 1938), known as Herman Liu, prominent Baptist layman, educator, and civic leader in Shanghai. He served as educational secretary of the national committee of the YMCA in China from 1922 to 1928 and as president of the University of Shanghai from 1928 until his assassination in 1938. Hanyang, where his parents […]

Tung Hsien-kuang (9 November 1887-), known as Hollington Tong, American-trained journalist and biographer of Chiang Kai-shek who served during the Sino-Japanese war as vice minister of information at Chungking and a principal source of news for Western correspondents stationed there. Tong served as Chinese Nationalist ambassador in Japan from 1952 to 1956 and in the […]