Cheng T'ien-hsi (10 July 1884-), known as F. T. Cheng, the first Chinese to receive the LL.D. degree in England, became vice minister of justice at Nanking (1931-34) and a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague ( 1 936-46) . From 1 946 to 1 950 he was ambassador to […]
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 […]
Liang Shih-ch'iu (1902-), literary critic, teacher, and translator of Western literature who was a leading figure in the Crescent Moon Society, a group which upheld the individual and aesthetic purposes of literary expression in opposition to the cause of proletarian realism. Although his ancestral home was in Hangchow, where his grandfather had amassed a modest […]
