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Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Liu Shu-yung

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Mr. Shu-yung Liu

劉樹塘字樹埔

(Liu Shu-yung)

Mr. Shu-yung Liu was born at Tai-shan district, Kwangtung province, in 1897. He entered the middle school of Tsing Hua College, Peking, in 1911 and was graduated in 1918, going to the United States on a Boxer scholarship in the summer of that year. He studied ceramic engineering at Ohio State University and was graduated from the New York State School of Ceramics and Clay Working in 1921 with the degree of B. S. in Ceramic Engineering. After graduation, Mr. Liu was employed by the Thatcher Furnace Company of New Jersey and later by the Baltimore Porcelain Enamel Manufacturing Company, as an enamel chemist. He returned to China in 1922 and was one of the promoters of the Chen Kwong Ceramics Company in Hongkong, a million dollar organization. Mr. Liu is at present an engineer of the company.