Background
Mr. Chen was born in Nanchang, Kiangsi, China in 1897.
Mr. Chen was born in Nanchang, Kiangsi, China in 1897.
Chen Chi-pao entered Tsinghua College at Peking at age of 15 and during his academic years there. He was sent to America on a Boxer indemnity scholarship in 1918 and there Mr. Chen enrolled at the Hamline University.
He returned to Hamline in 1920 and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in the same year. Mr. Chen studied at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago and took his Master of Arts degree from the latter institution. Later Chen Chi-pao postgraduated from the Teachers' College, Columbia University, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy degree upon publication of his thesis in 1932.
At Tsinghua College Mr. Chen was appointed editor-in-chief of the Tsinghua Journal (a monthly publication by the College). Before his gradation from Hamline University, he was appointed a member of the War Work Council and sent to France with the Y.M.C.A. as a secretary.
While in Europe, he travelled extensively and contributed to several papers in Paris. Chen Chi-pao was made a member of China Delegation to the World Educational Conference held in San Francisco in 1923. Upon returning to China, he joined the Southeastern University at Nanking and was first executive secretary and later dean of the University between 1923 and 1925.
Mr. Chen served as a principal of the Shanghai College of Commerce from 1926 till 1928. Chen Chi-pao was a dean of the College of Education of the Central University around 1929 to 1932. During the years 1932 to 1933 he was appointed a head of the Educational Mission to Europe. Since 1933 Chen Chi-pao worked as a member and concurrently Commissioner of Education of the Hubei Provincial Government.