Background
Dr. Chen Ta was a native of Yuhang, Hangzhow, China.
Dr. Chen Ta was a native of Yuhang, Hangzhow, China.
Mr. Chen studied Chinese at home under private tutorship, then went to the primary school of his district and after graduation went to the Middle School at Hangchow. In 1911 he was admitted to Tsinghua College, Peking.
Five years later Mr. Chen was sent to the United States for higher education. He received his A. B. degree from Reed College, Portland, Oregon in 1919, his A. M. degree from Columbia University in 1920 and his Ph. D. degree from Columbia University in 1923.
In the year 1919-1920 Dr. Chen was editor of the Chinese Students Quarterly, which was published by the Chinese Students Alliance in the United States. During the academic year 1920-1921 he was University Fellow in Social Science at Columbia University. He was asociated with the Chinese Delegation to the Disarmament Conference, held at Washington, D. C, November 11, 1921 to February 14, 1922. He was author of Chinese Migrations, with special reference to labor conditions, bulletin No. 340 of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Since 1923 he was instructor at Tsinghua College and concurrently editor of the Tsinghua Journal, a quarterly magazine published in the Chinese language.