Zhu Kezhen

Chu K'o-chen (1890-), known as Coching Chu, meteorologist, became president of National Chekiang University, director of the institute of meteorology of the Academia Sinica, and president of the China Meteorological Society. After 1 949 he served in Peking as a vice president of the Academy of Sciences. Shaohsing, Chekiang, was the birthplace of Coching Chu. […]

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Zhu Jingnong

Chu Ching-nung (14 August 1887-9 March 1951), educator, one of the founders and later the president of the China Academy and of Kuang-hua University. An educational reformer, he edited a major textbook series for the Commercial Press, served the National Government in such posts as vice minister of education, and created a fine school system […]

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Zhao Yuanren

Chao Yuen-ren (1892-), known as Y. R. Chao, internationally known linguist. Originally concentrating on phonology, he made the first detailed recordings of major dialect areas in China, establishing the research framework for such studies. In the United States, his work covered a wide range of linguistic topics, including the application of modern linguistic methods to […]

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Chen Hengzhe

Ch'en Heng-che 陳恆哲 Ch'en Heng-che (12 July 1890-), China's first female professor, taught Western history at National Peking and National Southeastern universities. An early associate of Hu Shih, she wrote short stories and poems in the vernacular. In addition to writing essays for many magazines, she founded the Tu-li p'ing-lun [independent critic] . She married […]

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