Background
Dr. Carson Chang was born at Chia-ting Hsien, Jiangsu Province in 1886. His native district is Pao-shan Hsien, Jiangsu.
Dr. Carson Chang was born at Chia-ting Hsien, Jiangsu Province in 1886. His native district is Pao-shan Hsien, Jiangsu.
Dr. Chang received his middle school education from the Institute of Modern Languages, Shanghai. He went to Japan in 1904 and graduated from the Waseda University, Tokyo in 1909, having taken the Political Science Course.
Upon returning to China Mr. Chang attended the Imperial Examination for returned students and was subsequently made a Han Lin Compiler or Compiler of the College of Literature, a degree equivalent to Ph. D.
After the outbreak of the first revolution in October 1911 Dr. Chang resigned from the Han Lin post and became editor-in-chief of the Peking-Tientsin Shih Pao, Tianjin.
In 1912 immediately after the establishment of the Republic Dr. Chang was appointed a secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. From this position he soon resigned to become the editor of the Young Nation and also assistant editor of the Justice of which Mr. Liang Chi-chiao was the founder and chief editor.
In 1913 Dr. Chang went to Germany and there studied in Berlin University. He spent almost a year in England doing research work in Political Science before he returned to China in April 1916.
Subsequently Dr. Chang was appointed chief of the Foreign Affairs Bureau at Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He had not held this position long when he became general manager of the China Times, Shanghai.
Mr. Chang was also a writer. He was elected president of the Institute of Self-Government in Jiangsu. He was planning to take a trip in October 1925 to America to engage several professors for his Institute.
Dr. Chang was the author of many standard works among which were Draft for the Chinese Constitution, Social Democracy in New Germany and many philosophical articles.