Background
Mr. Hsu was born in Hunan, China, in 1901.
Mr. Hsu was born in Hunan, China, in 1901.
Hsu Leonard S. received his early education in Hunan and from 1915 to 1918 he made a special study of the Confucian classics under the famous Hunanese scholar Liu Jen-hsi. Mr. Hsu went to America in 1918, he received Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1921. In 1922 he obtained Master of Arts degree with distinction and in 1923 Doctor of Philosophy with highest distinction from the State University of Iowa. Later Hsu Leonard S. became Lecturing Fellow in Oriental Politics and Civilization at the State University of Iowa and Research Associate in Sociology at the University of Chicago.
Since his return to China, Mr. Hsu at various times held the following posts: professor of Sociology, Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Work, and Dean of the College of Social Sciences of Yenching University, lecturer in Sociology at National Tsing Hua University, Peking National University, and University of Nanjing. He lectured on Chinese Social Changes at Princeton, Chicago, Columbia, and Northwestern Universities. Hsu Leonard S. also served in the Government as Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government in 1926-1927.
In 1927 he served as a secretary to the Commission for Labor Arbitration. In 1928 Mr. Hsu became a member of the Industrial Planning Committee of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor. in 1929 - member of the Committee for Standardization of Scientific Terms of the Ministry of Education. He worked as an adviser to the Social Bureau of Peiping Municipality since 1929.
In 1931 Hsu Leonard S. was appointed counsellor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the Rural Reconstruction Commission of the Executive Yuan since 1932. Later, in 1933 he held the post of an adviser to the Ministry of Industries. Mr. Hsu also took the positions of Counsellor to the Ministry of Industries, Vice-Director of the Bureau of Rural Reconstruction of the National Economic Council, Chairman of the Silver Committee and Member of the Committee for Commercial Treaties of the Ministry of Industries.
He served as a Cooperative Editor of American Journal of "Sociology and Social Research". He was an editor of Chinese Sociological Review (Quarterly), since 1929 and Sociological World (Annual), since 1927.