# The Chinese Year Book 1944-1945 — Who's Who & Directories

32 entries, LLM-transcribed. These entries were transcribed by the vision model of Opus 5.5. Before using any of these details, you must verify specific details with the original source which is linked to whenever possible.


## Appendix I

**Dr. T. V. Soong** born in 1894. He took his college education at St. John's University, Shanghai. After graduation, he went to America to study. In 1915 he completed his studies in the Economics Department of Harvard University and later entered Princeton University and Columbia University where he did graduate work, He is holder of the LL. D. degree of St. John's University and th Honorary LL.D. degree of Yale University. In 1917 Dr. Soong returned to China. After serving as secretary of the Han Yeh Ping Coal and Iron Works, Ltd., he went to Canton to join the Nationalist Government. He served successively as secretary to the Kwangtung Provincial Government, and Minister of Finance, and organizer and General Manger of the Central Bank of China. In 1926 Dr. Soong was elected member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang which post he is still holding. In 1927 he was State Councillor, Minister of Finance and Governor of the Central Bank of China. In 1930 he was concurrently Vice-President of the Executive Yuan and Vice-Charirman of the Standing Committee of the National Economic Council and in 1932 he became Acting President of the Executive Yuan. In 1933 Dr. Soing was delegated by the National Government to represent China in the economic talks at Washington and also took part in the World Economic Conference in London as China's Chief Delegate. He signed the U.S.$50,000,000 Cotton and Wheat Loan in American and the Nine-Power Silver Agreement in England. From England he proceed- delegate to the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1944. — p. 444 ([scan leaf 470](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n470/mode/1up))


## International Conferences

**Dr. Hu Shih** born in Chiki, Anhwei 1890, was one time Chinese Ambassador to the United States. He graduated from the China National Institute, Woosung, and later studied at Columbia University which conferred on him the Ph.D. degree. Returning to China in 1917, Dr. Hu taught at the Peking National University. Collaborating with Chen Tu-hsiu and a few others, he published the magazine "La Jeusesse," starting what is known as the "Literary Revolution." In 1936 Dr. Hu went to the United Kingdom on a mission connected with the British portion of the Boxer Indemnity Fund, and returned the next year. From 1927 onwards he was sucessively President of the China National Insiiiute, Honorary Professor of the National Peking University and Acting Dean of the School of Liberal Arts of the National Peking University. From 1933 to 1936 Dr. Hu was one of the Chinese delegates to the Institude of Pacific Relations. In 1933 he was elected member of the first People's Political Council. Shortly afterwards he was sent to the United States as Ambassador. Dr. Hu was appointed Senior Adviser to the Executive Yuan in 1942. Two years later he acted as adviser to the Chinese Delegation to the International Monetary Conference at Bretton Woods. Among his publications are "Outlines of History of Chinese Philosophy" and "Collection of Essays by Hu Shih." — p. 447 ([scan leaf 473](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n473/mode/1up))

**Dr. (Miss)) Wu Yi-fang** born in Hangchow, Chekiang 1094, is China's famed woman educator. After graduation from Ginling Colege for Girls, she continued her studies at the University of Michigan where she received her Ph.D. degree. After her return from the United Stated Dr. Wu taught at the Peking Girls' Higher Normal School. Since 1928 she has been President of Ginling College for Girls. From 1925 to 1926 Dr. Wu was Vice Chairman of the Association of Chinese Students in America. In 1929, 1931 and 1933 she was one of the Chinese delegates to the Institute of Pacific Relations. In 1938 Dr. Wu was elected member of the first People's Political Council. Ever since then she has been a member of the P.P.C. In September, 1943 Dr. Wu went to the United States to participate in the conference called by the Liaison Committee of the World Educational Conference to discuss problems relative to postwar education. — p. 447 ([scan leaf 473](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n473/mode/1up))

**Mr. Li Hwang** born in 1895, a native of Chengtu, Szechuen, received his education from Paris University and taught in the National Wuhan University and National Peking University. In his earlier years he edited two magazines "Young China" and "Awakened Lion" and in 1927 helped to organize the Nationalist Youth Party. He was elected member of the People's Political Council upon its inauguration in 1938 and is now also a member of its Presidium. Since 1940, he has been connected with the Szechuen-Sikang Economic Commission and was elected member of the Commission for the Promotion of Constitutional Government in 1943. He is the author of a number of books of which "History and the Social Science" is the most well-known. — p. 447 ([scan leaf 473](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n473/mode/1up))

**Mr. Carson Chang** born in 1885, a well-known jurist, was educated in Japan, Germany and England. He is the leader of the Chinese National Socialist Party and had been active in the Chinese Revolutionary Movement. In 1928, he went to Europe as an observer at the Paris Peace Conference. He has been successively Editor-in-Chief of the Peking and Tientsin Times in Tientsin, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Chekiang, General Manager of Shanghai Times, President of the Institute of Self-Government at Woosung, and Professor of Kwanghwa University. Since 1938 he has been a member of the People's Political Council and is now also a member of the committee for the Promotion of Constitutional Government. — p. 448 ([scan leaf 474](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n474/mode/1up))

**Mr. Tung Pi-wu** born in Huangan, Hupeh 1885, is a communist leader. His early years were spent in Japan where he joined the Tung Men Hui participating in the Wuchang uprising. He later served as a member of the Hupeh Provincial Kuomintang Head quarters for many years. After having joined the Chinese Communist Party, he was elected one of the eleven delegats to the first meeting of the Communist Party in 1921 at Shanghai. After the outbresk of the war of resistance, Mr. Tung was appointed by the Supreme National Defence Council as member of the People's Political Council, a post which he is still holding. Being a resident member of the P.P.C., he has been elected member of the Committee for the Promotion of Economic Mobilization and the Committee for the Promotion of Constitutional Government. — p. 448 ([scan leaf 474](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n474/mode/1up))

**Mr. Hu Lin** born in 1899, and a native of Chengtu, has had a long journalistic career. After being educated in Japan, he took up newspaper work upon his return to China. In 1917 he was appointed General Manager and Editor of the Ta Kung Pao in Tientsin. He Visited France during the time of the Paris Peace Conference following which he travelled extensively in Europe. After leaving the Ta Kung Pao in 1931, he started a Chinese news agency, the Kuo Wen News Agency, at Shanghai. In 1926 he took over the Ta Kung Pao of which he is General Manager. Under his management the Ta Kung Pao has become one of the most influential newspapers in in China. Mr. Hu was elected member of the P.P.C. in 1942 and later made member of the Committee for the Promotion of Constitutional Government. He was a member of the Chinese Goodwill Mission to Great Britain. — p. 448 ([scan leaf 474](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n474/mode/1up))

**Dr. Alfred Shao-Ke Sze** born in 1878, a native of Kiangsu, was educated at St. John's, Cornell, Toronto and Columbia Universities. During the Ching Dynasty he had been Counsellor to the Imperial Delegates for the investigation of constitutional government in various countries, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Kirin, and Envoy to the United States, Mexico, Peru and Cuba. After the founding of the Chinese Republic, he had been Delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, Delegate to the Washington Conference, and Chief Delegate to the International Opium Conference at Geneva. In 1929 he was appointed Minister to Britain and in 1931 he was Delegate to the 12th Assembly of the League of Nations. From 1931 to 1932 he was China's representative on the Council of the League of Nations. In 1933 he was appointed Minister to the United States and promoted Ambassador the following year. In 1935 he resigned from the Ambassadorship. He was member of the People's Political Council from 1938 to 1940. He was Chief Delegate to the 8th Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations in 1942 and also represented China on the Institute's Conference at Atlantic City in 1944. — p. 449 ([scan leaf 475](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n475/mode/1up))

**Admiral Chen Shao-kuan** born in 1888, is a graduate of the Nanking Naval College and received naval training in the United States and Great Britain before and during the first world war. In 1932 he was appointed Navy Minister and in 1937 held the post of "Chief of Naval Headquarters" under the National Military Council — p. 449 ([scan leaf 475](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n475/mode/1up))

**Dr. Hsu Mo** Chinese Ambassador to Turkey, is a career diplomat. Born in 1892, he graduated from Peiyang University and received his M. A. at George Washington University. He was conferred honorary LL.D. by the Melbourne University. He was Director of American and European Affairs in the Foreign Ministry 1928-1931; Administrative Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1932; Political Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1932-1941; and served as the first Chinese Minister to Australia from July 1941 until November 1944 when he was transferred to Ankara. — p. 449 ([scan leaf 475](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n475/mode/1up))

**Pei Tsu-yee** General Manager of the Bank of China, has been working for the Bank since 1914. He served as Manager of its Hongkong Branch from 1918 to 1927, when he was transferred to the Shanghai branch. Mr. Pei attended the Bretton Woods Monetary Conference as a member of the Chinese Delegation. — p. 449 ([scan leaf 475](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n475/mode/1up))

**Ku Tzu-jen** (T. Z. Koo) is known in China as a social worker. He has lectured widely in the United States and Great Britain, and is a member of the world Student Christian Federation. — p. 449 ([scan leaf 475](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n475/mode/1up))

**Li Ping-heng** was formerly Director of the Department of Labor in the Ministry of Industries, Editor of the China Labor Monthly and has been a member of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization since 1934. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Wu Ching-hsiang (John C. H. Wu)** was born in 1897 and studied in America, France and Germany. He taught law in various Chinese Colleges and in 1933 was appointed a member of the Legislative Yuan. He has served as Chairman of a Committee for drafting a constitution for China, and is a reserve member of the Executive Committee of the Kuomintang. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Dr. Chou Keng-sheng (S. R. Chow)** was born in 1889, studied in Japan for five years, then took an M.A. degree at Edinburg and the degree of doctour en droit from the University of Paris. He has been dean of the Political Science Department at the National University of Peiping and also at the National Central University. He is a member of the Legislative Yuan, and has taken an active interest in international affairs. His latest book, "Winning the Peace in the Pacific" was published by Macmillan in 1944. Until recently he has been the President of the National Wuhan University. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Wang Chia-cheng (C. C. Wang)** was born in Kirin Province. He was Administrative Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs in Nanking from 1930-32, and is at present serving as adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Chungking. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Dr. Chang Chung-fu** is a graduate of Michigan, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins Universities, and was professor of political science at the National Peiping University from 1933 to 1937. He is a member of the political division of the Supreme National Defence Council, and has been the Director of the American Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Lieutenant-General C. S. Tu** is aide-de-camp to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, which he attended in 1937-38. Since March 1942, he has been the chief instructor in the Officers' Training Corps in China, and was Head of the National Defence Resarch School. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Dr. Wang Hua-cheng** is Counsellor to the Supreme National Defence Council and Director of Treaty Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Yang Yun-chu** was educated in Japan and served as Consul-General in Yokohama and First Secretary of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, 1936-37. He is at present Director of the East Asiatic Affairs Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Dr. Li Wei-kuo** is a member of the Generalissimo's Headquarters and also Vice-Minnister of the Ministry of Infcnmation. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Kuo Pin-chia** is a member of the Counsellor's Office in the National Military Council and also Counsellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Dr. Hsu Shu-hsi** was the Director of the Western Asiatic Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He received his P.H.D. from Columbia University in 1925, and was formerly head of the Political Science Department at Yanching University. His special field has been the Manchurian problem, and he served as adviser to the Chinese Government on the Lytton Commission and also as technical adviser to the Chinese delegation to the League of Nations. — p. 450 ([scan leaf 476](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n476/mode/1up))

**Pu Hsueh-feng (Dison Poe)** is a counsellor of the Supreme National Defence Council. He was formerly professor of political science at Yunnan University, 1926-28 and National Tsinghwa University, 1928-39. — p. 451 ([scan leaf 477](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n477/mode/1up))

**Lee Kan** studied at Missouri and Harvard Universities. In 1941 he was appointed Commercial Counsellor to the Chinese Embassy in Washington. — p. 451 ([scan leaf 477](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n477/mode/1up))

**Chang Fu-yun** was a secretary of the Chinese delegation to the Washington Conference in 1921. and subsequently became Director of the Customs Administration. He was also a member of the National Economic Council. — p. 451 ([scan leaf 477](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n477/mode/1up))

**Dr. Liang Yun-li** a lawyer and lecturer on China's international relations. In 1929 he served as technical adviser to the Chinese delegation to the League of Nations, and in 1934 became senior secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At present he is Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in London. — p. 451 ([scan leaf 477](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n477/mode/1up))

**Shao Yu-lin** was educated in Japan and is an expert on Japanese political affairs. From 1941 to 1943, Shao served as Director of the Department of Information in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Shao is at present a member of the Generalissimo's headquarters. — p. 451 ([scan leaf 477](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n477/mode/1up))

**Dr. Hu Shih-tseh (Victor Hoo)** was the Administrative Vice-Minister of the Foreign Affairs. He studied in Russia, where his father was Chinese Minister from 1905 to 1912, and also in France and England. He attended both the Paris Peace Conference and the Washington Conference as secretary to the Chinese Delegation. He subsequently was Charge d'Affairs in Berlin, Chinese Minister to Switzerland, and Director of the Chinese Office in Geneva. He attended the Bretton Woods Monetary Conference. He served as the Secretary-General of the Chinese Delegation attending the San Francisco Conference. — p. 451 ([scan leaf 477](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n477/mode/1up))

**Liu Chieh** the Minister in the Chinese Embassy in Washington, served as Deputy Secretary-General of the Delegation. He studied at Oxford and Columbia Universities; was first secretary of the Chinese Legation in London, 1932-36, appointed Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Washington in 1958, and became Minister in 1942 under Dr. Hu Shih, and was made Administrative Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1945. — p. 451 ([scan leaf 477](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n477/mode/1up))

**Chu Hsin-min** was born in Harbin, Manchuria. He was educated in Russian schools and speaks the language fluently. He was formerly Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. — p. 451 ([scan leaf 477](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n477/mode/1up))

**** The following attended the Conference in a secretarial capacity: Ichon Kuan-mon, Cheng Chen-yu, Liu Wei-ying, Wang Chih-chou, Wu Kuo hsiang, and Chang Chien-hung. — p. 451 ([scan leaf 477](https://archive.org/details/chinese-year-book-1944-45/page/n477/mode/1up))