Jiang Menglin

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Jiang Menglin
Born
Jiang Mengxiong (蔣夢熊)

(1886-01-20)20 January 1886
Died19 June 1964(1964-06-19) (aged 78)
Alma materColumbia University

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]

Biography[edit]

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[edit]

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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References and further reading[edit]

  • 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.
Academic offices
Preceded by President of Peking University
1930 – 1945
Succeeded by
Preceded by President of Zhejiang University
1927 – 1930
Succeeded by