Chang Po-ling (1876-1951), prominent Christian educator, founded the Nankai Schools and established Nankai University at Tientsin in 1919, serving as its president until 1948. Deputy speaker of the People's Political Council during the Sino-Japanese war, he served as president of the Examination Yuan at Nanking in 1948. He retired in 1949 to live in Tientsin. […]

Yeh Kung-ch'ao (20 October 1904-), known as George K. C. Yeh, Western-trained scholar and university professor who entered public life during the Sino-Japanese war. In 1945 he directed the ministry of information's United Kingdom office in London. He later served as vice minister (1947-48), acting minister (1949), and minister (1950-57) of foreign affairs in the […]

Wu Han (1909-), historian and university professor, was known before 1949 primarily as a leading authority on the Ming dynasty. He served after 1952 as a deputy mayor of Peking and as vice chairman of the China Democratic League until his political disgrace in 1966. The Iwu district of Chekiang was the native place of […]

Li Shu-hua T. Jun-chang Li Shu-hua (1890-), internationally known physicist and educator and vice president of the National Peiping Research Academy from 1929 to 1948. The son of Li Wan-k'uei, a landowning farmer, Li Shu-hua was born in Changli hsien, Chihli (Hopei). He had one younger brother, Li Shu-t'ien. Beginning in 1896, Li Shu-hua studied […]

Chiang Meng-lin (1886-18 June 1964), known as Chiang Monlin, educator. He served as dean (1919) and acting chancellor (1923-27) of Peking University and as minister of education in the National Government (1928-30). He then returned to Peking as chancellor of the university (1931-45). From 1948 to 1964 he was chairman of the Joint Commission on […]