Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Liu Chin

Mr. Liu Chin

劉晋字三

(Hsisan C. Liu)

Mr. Hsisar: C. Liu, secretary and engineer-in-charge of the Technical Department of the Szechuan-Hankow Railway, and Deputy of the Yangtze River Commission in Hankow, is a native of Wusih, born in Shanghai in 1885. He received the early part of his education in the Anglo-Chinese College at Shanghai, and later joined the Shanbaikwan Railway College in North China as a government student, and graduated from that college in 1900. Just then the Boxer trouble arose which made his position on the Tientsin-Shanhaikwan Railway insecure. Thereupon Mr. Liu joined the Weihaiwei Regiment under British Officers as Cadet and Interpreter. Upon the reduction of troops in the fall of 1902, Mr. Liu left the Regiment with the rank of Military Sergeant. On account of his military training under British Officers, he was engaged in 1903 by the tingfu University as Military Drill Instructor, which he later resigned to be Assistant Police Superintendent under Captain William W. Quincey in the organization of a modern police force composed of Chinese and Sikhs in the Commercial Port of Tsinanfu, Shantung Province. In recognition of his meritorious services rendered while in Tsinanfu, he was awarded the Commission of Major and was transferred to Tientsin as Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of Chihli, H. E. Yang Shih-hsiang. Liu also had a title as sub-prefect which was awarded him by the Imperial Manchu government for services rendered in rescuing lives and property from merchant ships off the Shantung Coast. In 1908 Mr. Liu was engineer in charge of the Lotung Railway, First Section, and acting locomotive engineer of the Lunghai Railway. Then the Siems-Carey Canal and Railway Co. of America projected two railways in the interior of China, one from Hankow to Chengtu in Szechuan Province and the other from Chuchow, Hunan, to Chinchow in Kwangtung Province in South China. On these projected lines preliminary work began, and Mr. Liu soon became the surveying engineer of the Chow-chikow-Hsiangyang section of the Hankow-Chengtu line, called Chow-Hsiang Railway. No sooner had the work started than uns'iccessful negotiations with the Chinese government made the Siems-Carey plans fall through, and 1917 found Mr. Liu in Hankow as Secretary of the Szechuan-Hankow Railway, which position he still holds. Aside from his railway work, Mr. Liu is also Councillor to General Wu Pei-fu. He is in possession of a British War Medal awarded him by the British government in 1900. With the Association of Chinese and American Engineers, he is corresponding secretary in Hankow. In the recently proposed Door-of-Hope for helpless Chinese girls, in Hankow, he was elected honorary secretary. In addition he is a member of the now board of managers of the Hankow Y. M. C. A. When Lenox Simpson started the Far Eastern Times in Peking in 1923 Mr. Liu was appointed agent and correspondent of the Times in Hankow.