Chang Chien (1 July 1853-24 August 1926), industrialist, educator, and conservationist, was a leading social reformer and a scholarentrepreneur. Beginning in 1899 with the Dah Sun Cotton Mill, he established an industrial complex in Nant'ung. His T'ung Hai Land Reclamation Company became a model for others. Chang devoted the last decade of his life to […]

Shen Chia-pen (20 July 1840-27 April 1913), the foremost scholar of the late Ch'ing period in the field of Chinese law. He was best known for his efforts to modernize the traditional legal system, and his reforms served as inspiration for the law codification programs of the 1920'sand 1930's. Born into a prominent scholar-official family, […]

Ch'en San-li 陳三立 Ch'en San-li (1852 - 15 September 1937) helped to develop reform and modernization programs in Hunan while his father, Ch'en Pao-chen, was governor (1895-98). After the failure of the Hundred Days Reform of 1898, he was banished from government service. He then became a noted poet and essayist. The Ch'en San-li branch […]