Mr. Lieu was born at Chinkiang, Kiangsu Province in 1891. He studied mathematics, science and modern languages under private tutors until he reached the age of 14 when he attended sch'ool in Shanghai and Peking. At the former place he attended the Y. M. C. A. School and at the latter he went to the Wu Ch’eng Middle School first and then the Imperial University.
Dakuin K. Lieu studied mathematics, science and modern languages under private tutors until he reached the age of 14 when he attended school in Shanghai and Peking. At the former place he attended the Y. M. C. A. School and at the latter he went to the Wu Cheng Middle School.
In 1911 Mr. Lieu went to America and studied economics at the University of Michigan. In 1915 upon the advice and under the direction of Professor Henry C. Adams, he travelled extensively in the United States studying industrial and financial conditions of that country as affected by the Great War. He received B. A. degree in June and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Upon returning to China, Mr. Lieu became English Secretary of the Kiangsu Provincial Educational Association. From 1916 to 1919 he was Professor of Economy in the Tsing Hua College. During 1919-1920 he was Cost Accountant of the Hanyang Iron Works. In 1920 he joined the Government Bureau of Economic Information of which he was Chief of the Research and Investigation Department. In September 1923 Mr. Lieu was appointed expert of the All-China Finance Commission.
Mr. Lieu served at different times as Secretary of the Chinese Delegation to the Washington Conference, Expert of the Special Tariff Conference, Preparation Bureau of the Foreign Office, Dean of the English Department of the Peking Government Teachers’ College, Professor of English of the same college. Mr. Lieu was elected a Fellow of the Royal English Society of Arts in 1920.
Dakuin K. Lieu contributed a lot to Chinese and foreign newspapers and magazines, such as the China Weekly Review, the Wall Street Journal, New York, the London Financier, the Baltimore Sun, the Chinese Social and Political Science Review, the Chinese Bankers’ Magazine in Peking, the Peking Daily News, the Peking Leader, and other papers.
