Jiang Menglin (; 20 January 1886 – 1964), also known as Chiang Monlin, was a Chinese educator, writer, and politician. Between 1919 and 1927, he also served as the President of
Peking University. He later became the president of
National Chekiang University
Zhejiang University, abbreviated as ZJU or Zheda and formerly romanized as Chekiang University, is a national public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigious C9 League and is selected into the n ...
. In the early 1950s, he was head of the
Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in Taiwan.
Biography
Jiang was born in
Yuyao
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It is located west of central Ningbo, east of Hangzhou, bordering Hangzhou Bay in the north. Yuyao ...
,
Ningbo
Ningbo (; Ningbonese: ''gnin² poq⁷'' , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly romanized as Ningpo, is a major sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises 6 urban districts, 2 sate ...
,
Zhejiang Province on 20 January 1886. Jiang studied at Zhejiang Advanced College (浙江高等学堂; now
Zhejiang University
Zhejiang University, abbreviated as ZJU or Zheda and formerly romanized as Chekiang University, is a national public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigious C9 League and is selected into the n ...
) in
Hangzhou
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in 1903. In 1908, he went to America and studied at
University of California, Berkeley
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. At first, he majored in
agriculture
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, and then he turned to
pedagogy
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.
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Jiang obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University
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under John Dewey's guidance.
Political career
Jiang served as the Minister of Education of the Republic of China from 1928-1930.
Jiang was the General Secretary of Executive Yuan of the Republic of China from 1945 to 1947.
He was also the Chairman of the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction (JCRR; ) is a commission established in 1948 in mainland China. After the Chinese Civil War, the JCRR then moved to Taiwan, where its work has been widely credited with laying the agricultural b ...
in the late 1940s and 1950s.
See also
* Land Reform Museum
Notes
References and further reading
* Monlin Chiang, ''Tides from the West: A Chinese Autobiography'' ()(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945).
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1886 births
1964 deaths
Zhejiang University alumni
Zhejiang University faculty
Politicians from Ningbo
Educators from Ningbo
Peking University faculty
National Southwestern Associated University faculty
Kuomintang politicians in Taiwan
Republic of China politicians from Zhejiang
Writers from Ningbo
Republic of China essayists
Presidents of Peking University
Presidents of Zhejiang University
Teachers College, Columbia University alumni
People from Yuyao
Taiwanese people from Zhejiang
Taiwanese Ministers of Agriculture
20th-century essayists
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