Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Ch'in Fen

Mr. F. Ch'in

秦字景陽

(Ch'in Fen)

Mr. F. Ch'in was born at Chiating Hsien, Kiangsu Province, in 1887. He received his middle school and college education in Shanghai. In 1906 he went to America and studied mathematics and astronomy at Harvard University, from which school he was graduated in 1909 with the degree of A. B., (Magna Cum Laude). In the same year he obtained the degree of A. M. During 1909-1910 Mr. Ch’in spent a year in England and Germany taking post-graduate courses at Glasgow University and Freiburg University. Mr. Ch'in returned to China in June 1910 and became Dean of the Kiangnan High School of Nanking. Later he accepted the Deanship of the Pootung Middle School, Shanghai. From 1912 to 1915 he was professor of mathematics of the Nanyang College, now known as the Communications University. From 1915 to 1919 he was professor of mathematics and astronomy at the Government University of Peking and also Dean of the Science Department. In March 1919 he was appointed director of the Ministry of Education in charge of the Department of Technical Education. In November 1920 he was promoted to be Councillor of the Ministry of Education. In July 1922 Mr. Ch'in received the Third Order of Chiaho. In April 1923 he was appointed by the Ministry to be Chinese Delegate to the International Educational Conference. Mr. Ch'in is still Councillor of the Ministry of Education. He is the author of a series of text books on mathematics in Chinese and several books on astronomy.