Background
He was born in August 5, 1903 in Nanchang, Kiangsi, China.
social worker university professor
He was born in August 5, 1903 in Nanchang, Kiangsi, China.
Shih-shun Liang received his early education at Nanchang and Kiukiang in both Government and mission schools, than he entered William Nast Academy (then known as William Nast College) in 1916 and went to the United States to continue his studies in 1920.
He attended the following schools in U.S.A.: Baldwin - Wallace College (Ohio), Depauw University (Indiana), and University of Chicago (Illinois). For a year and a half, he was enrolled as a student in the Ford School of Technology, Michigan.
Shih-shun Liang worked in the Detroit News from 1926 to 1928. When he returned to China, he had acted as a special correspondent for the Detroit News in Shanghai.Then he was appointed secretary of the National Committee of Y.M.C.A.'s (Young Men's Christian Association) of China, spring in 1928, later he became executive secretary of the General Division of the Committee.
Mr. Liang lectured on journalism in the East China Summer School in Shanghai for two summers in 1928-1929 and at the University of Shanghai in 1929-1930. He lectured on Social Publicity at the Y.M.C.A. Summer School held at Ruling. Kiangsi, summer of 1931. Shih-shun went with Dr. David Z. T. Yui on a special goodwill mission to the United States in Autumn of 1932 on behalf of Chinese people's organizations in Shanghai. When Dr. Yui broke down in Washington, D.C. in Jan. 1933, he was in charge of the work of the mission. He returned to China to confer with leaders of the Government and the people in April, 1933 and then went back to the United States to resume the work of the mission. Mr. Liang was a delegate to Norman Harris Institute Conference at Chicago in June, 1933, delegate to Public Affairs Institute Conference at University of Virginia, Virginia in July, 1933, delegate to the 5th Biennial Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations held at Banff, Canada in August 1933.
He travelled in Europe on way of return to China and arrived at Shanghai in winter, 1933, he was special correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, special correspondent of Time Magazine, professor at Yenching University, and dean of the School of Journalism of the same University.