Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Ch'a Liang-chao

Mr. Cha Liang-Chao

查良釗字勉仲

(Ch'a Liang-chao)

Mr. Cha Liang-chao was born in March 1896 in Tientsin, Chihli province, his family being from Hainien, Chekiang. He was graduated from Nankai Middle School, Tientsin, 1913, and from Tsing Hua College, Peking, 1917. He was a teacher in Tsing Hua Middle School Dept., 1917-18. Mr. Cha went to the U. S. A. in August 1918, and attended Grinnell College, Iowa, 1918-1919, University of Chicago, Chicago, III. 1919-1920 where he received the Degree, Ph. B., and the University of Chicago in June 1920. He lectured for the Chautauqua Association, Swarthmore, Pa. on Chinese subjects in the summer of 1920. Mr. Cha attended Teachers' College, Columbia University, N. Y., in 1920-1922, and received the degree of M. A. from Columbia University June 1921, doing research work in the Department of Educational Administration. He was chairman of the executive committee of the Chinese Students' Committee on the Washington Conference, during the Conference. Mr. Cha returned to China in July 1922 and became professor of education in Peking Teachers College (Peking National Normal University since July 1923) in August 1922. He was elected by the Faculty Council as acting dean of studies in May 1923; Lecturer in the Summer School of Nankai University Tientsin, 1923; and Director of the Institute for the Application of Scientific Measurement on Education, under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Education, August, 1923, with Dr. Wm. A. McCall and Dr. T. T. Liew as lecturers. In January 1924 Mr. Cha was appointed by President Fan Yuan-Lien as Professor of Education and Dean of Studies by President Fan Yuan-Lien as Professor of Education and Dean of Studies Association for the Advancement of Education and author of the "Survey Educational Tests," published by the Commercial Press, 1923.