Background
Mr. Chen was born in Beijing, China February 10, 1894.
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Mr. Chen was born in Beijing, China February 10, 1894.
Chen L. T. received early education at Yenching University. Then he graduated from Tsinghua College (later Tsinghua University) in 1913. Mr. Chen went to the U. S. in 1914 enrolling at Yale where he distinguished himself in oratory. After graduation from Yale in 1917 he went to Harvard for graduate study, but before completing work for a Master's degree, he was called to France as one of the first three Chinese Y.M.C.A. workers among the Chinese laborers attached to the British Expeditionary Forces.
Mr. Chen returned to China immediately after the War and was appointed by the National Committee Y.M.C.A. to take charge of repatriation work of Chinese laborers in Shantung 1919. The following year he was transferred to the headquarters in Shanghai. In 1928 Chen L. T. became general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in Peiping and was concurrently lecturer on contemporary history at the National University.
In September 1929 he returned to Shanghai to become general secretary, Y.M.C.A., and concurrently executive secretary, China Council, Institute of Pacific Relations. He worked as a research director, Kincheng Banking Corporation, since 1932. Mr. Chen was a general editor of the International Understanding Series published by the China Council and translator of Liang Chichao’s “History of Chinese Political Thought” published in London.