Jiang_Menglin

Jiang Menglin

Jiang Menglin

Chinese academic

Jiang Menglin (simplified Chinese: 蒋梦麟; traditional Chinese: 蔣夢麟; 20 January 1886 – 1964), also known as Chiang Monlin, was a Chinese educator, writer, and politician. Between 1919 and 1927, he also served as the President of Peking University. He later became the president of National Chekiang University. In the early 1950s, he was head of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in Taiwan.[1]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Jiang.
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Biography

Jiang was born in Yuyao, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province on 20 January 1886. Jiang studied at Zhejiang Advanced College (浙江高等学堂; now Zhejiang University) in Hangzhou in 1903. In 1908, he went to America and studied at University of California, Berkeley. At first, he majored in agriculture, and then he turned to pedagogy.[2] Jiang obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University under John Dewey's guidance.

Political career

Jiang served as the Minister of Education of the Republic of China from 1928-1930.

Jiang was the General Secretary of Executive Yuan of the Republic of China from 1945 to 1947.

He was also the Chairman of the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in the late 1940s and 1950s.

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Boorman & Howard (1968), p. 348-350.
  2. [2]
    上海交大名人堂——蒋梦麟

References and further reading

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  • Monlin Chiang, Tides from the West: A Chinese Autobiography (Chinese: 西潮:蒋梦麟回忆录)(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945).
  • Boorman, Howard L.; Howard, Richard C., eds. (1968). "Chiang Menglin". Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. Vol. I. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 348–350. ISBN 9780231089555.
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