Background
He was born in Chungshan district, Kwangtung, China on the 15h of September in 1896.
韋尨字择丹
He was born in Chungshan district, Kwangtung, China on the 15h of September in 1896.
Mr. Chueh received a classical education first before entering the Kwangtung Provincial College and later Canton Christian College. Then he joined the Tung Men Hui in student days and took part in the revolution. In 1914 he went to England to study and matriculated in the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Wei Chueh pursued further studies in America and graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio in 1918 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He got a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in University of Chicago in 1920.
Chueh Wei first worked as an instructor of philosophy and government in Canton Christian Collegean in 1920-1923 and an assistant professor of philosophy and government in in the same institution in 1923-1925, continued as a lecturer in philosophy and education there. He gave lectures in philosophy at National Kwangtung University in the period of 1923-1926.
Then Mr. Wei Chueh started his career in government as a govretary to the Ministry of Foreign ernment delegate to the First Pan-Pacific Educational Conference in Honolulu in summer 1921. He also worked as an associate Commissioner and then Commissioner of Education in Kwangtung Province, China from 1922 to 1923, secretary and director of the Bureau of International Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the Nationalist Government in 1926-1927. In March-April 1927 he was appointed by the Nationalist Government to investigate the Nanking Incident and take charge of foreign affairs in Nanking, as a professor of education. National Wuchang Chungshan University, 1926-1927 government delegate to the Second Biennial Conference of the World Federation of Education Associations, Toronto in summer 1927. Mr. Wei studied and travelled in America and Europe in 1927-1928.
He occupied positions of chief of the department of social education in Ministry of Education in 1928, commissioner of education in Greater Shanghai in 1928-1929. In 1929-1930 he worked as a dean of the College of Education at the National Central University.