Background
Mr. Cheng was born in Beijing, China, in 1898.
Mr. Cheng was born in Beijing, China, in 1898.
Cheng Andrew C. Y. received his early education in Jefferson Academy, Tongzhou, Hebei. He graduated from the North China Union College in 1918. In 1919 Mr. Cheng went to America and studied at the Hartford Seminary Foundation. In 1920 he returned to the United States and continued his studies in Hartford, graduating with Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1922. Then he took post-graduate work in Union Theological Seminary in New York and Teachers College of Columbia University and received the degrees of Master of Sacred Theology (magna cum laude) from Union and Master of Arts from Columbia in 1924. Mr. Cheng completed his doctoral dissertation on the philosophy of Hsuntzu and received the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Columbia University in 1927.
Mr. Cheng was appointed assistant in Chinese at the Hartford Seminary Foundation between 1919 and 1922. He was called to France as one of the Y.M.C.A. secretaries among the Chinese Labor Battalions attached to the American Expeditionary Force in 1920. Cheng Andrew C. Y. was appointed lecturer in the Department of Chinese of Columbia University in 1924-1927. He returned to China and was appointed assistant professor in the School of Religion, Yenching University, from 1927 to 1933.
Cheng Andrew C. Y. also worked as a visiting professor at Union Theological College, Canton, and Nanjing Theological Seminary, Nanjing, from 1933-1934. He was the head of the Department of Religion at the University of Nanjing around 1934 to 1935.
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1928Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament
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