Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Hsia Ching-lin

Dr. Hsia Ching-lin

夏晋麟字天長

Dr. Hsia Ching-lin was born at Ningpo, Chekiang province, in 1894. He was brought up at Tientsin where his father had buen a merchant for many years. Dr. Hsia received his elementary education from the Tientsin Kiangsu Primary School from 1906 to 1910 and a middle school education at Tientsin Anglo-Chinese College from 1910 to 1914. In 1914 Dr. Hsia went to England as a private student. He studied at Mill Hill School, London, until 1916 when he was admitted to the University of Glasgow where he was graduated in 1919 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. From Glasgow Dr. Hsia went to the University of Edinburgh where he obtained the degree of Master of Arts in 1920 and that of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Law in 1922, the subject of his dissertation being "Treaty Relations between China and Great Britain.". He was the prize student in International Law in that University in 1917-20. Dr. Hsia returned to China in 1922 and was at once appointed secretary and treasurer to the Chinese Weihaiwei Retrocession Commission. This position he held until the summer of 1923 when he left Peking for Shanghai. Beginning from the fall of 1923, Dr. Hsia took up educational work. At present he is connected with the Southern University as Dean of the Arts Faculty, and with the Shanghai College of Commerce of the National Southeastern University, the Shanghai College of Law and Politics and the University of Shanghai, as Professor of International Law, Diplomatic History, and English Literature. Dr. Hsia's address is F. B. 216 Avenue Haig, Shanghai.