Jiang Menglin
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Jiang.
Jiang Menglin (1886 - 1964), who in English used the name Chiang Monlin, was the president of Peking University, serving in 1919-1927. He later became the president of National Zhejiang University.
He entered Zhejiang Advanced College (Chinese: 浙江高等学堂, now Zhejiang University) in Hangzhou in 1903[1]. He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University, United States, under John Dewey's guidance.
He also served as the minister of education of Republic of China government in 1928 and Chairman of the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in the late 1940s and 1950s.
[edit] References
Monlin Chiang, Tides from the West: A Chinese Autobiography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945).
| Academic offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Cai Yuanpei |
President of Beijing University 1930 – 1945 |
Succeeded by Hu Shi |
| Preceded by Hu Zhuangyou |
President of Zhejiang University 1927 – 1930 |
Succeeded by Shao Peizi |
