Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Shih I-hsuan

Mr. I. Hsuan Si

史譯宣字譯宜

(Sheh I-hsuan)

Mr. I. Hsuan Si was born at Fu Shan Hsien, near Chefoo, in 1886. He received his early education at the Anglo-Chinese School, Temple Hill, Chefoo; Shantung Christian Union College then at Weihsien, Shantung, now a part of the Shantung Christian University at Tsinanfu, Shantung; and for a few months, in Tsing Hua College, Peking. In 1911, Mr. Si continued his studies in the United States on a Tsing Hua scholarship. In the United States, he attended four universities, viz. University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Yale and Harvard. He holds the B. A. degree from Michigan '13, and the M. B. A. (Master in Business Administration) from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration '16. After his studies in 1916 he was the first Chinese student ever admitted as an apprentice into the private banking firm of J. P. Morgan Co., N. Y., where he acquired a valuable experience in American banking systems. In 1917, Mr. Si went to France from America serving as the first Chinese Y. M. C. A. secretary among the Chinese laborers in French employ. In France, he stayed in Lyons for some time and later was given charge of the Rhone Zone in connection with Y. M. C. A. work. Upon his return to China, Mr. Si taught one year in the Commercial College of the Nankai University, Tientsin, acting at the same time as Dean of the Business School, and then continued his Y. M. G. A. work in Tientsin for another year. Resigning from the Tientsin Y. M. C. A. he entered into the railway service in the Ministry of Communications. From that Ministry he was sent as one of the attaches to the Chinese Delegation to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament at Washington, 1921-2. Upon his return from Washington, he served in the Ministry of Communications as English secretary to the director of the Railway Department as well as acting assistant chief of the traffic section in the railway department. In the summer of 1923, during the Lincheng Bandit episode, he was sent as one of the two delegates to Tsaochuang to represent the Ministry of Communications. In September 1923, he was appDinted acting general superintendent of the materials department of the Kiao-Tsi Railway, and is now superintendent of that department located at Tsingtao.