Background
Mr. Chen was born in Wuxing, Zhejiang, China (modern Huzhou) in 1899.
Mr. Chen was born in Wuxing, Zhejiang, China (modern Huzhou) in 1899.
Chen Li-fu received his Bachelor of Science degree from Peiyang College, Tientsin and master's degree in mining engineering from Pittsburgh University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Mr. Chen was a secretary of the Headquarters of the Commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Revolutionary Forces during the years 1927 to 1928. He was a member of the Planning Committee of the First Army Corps and also a member of the Planning Committee of the Kuomintang Central Publicity Department.
Chen Li-fu worked as a Chief of Intelligence Section of the Kuomintang Central Organization Department. He served as a member of Standing Committee of the Commander-in-chief's Special Party Headquarters. Later he became a chief secretary of the National Reconstruction Commission, Nanking.
Mr. Chen also took the posts of a director of the Political Training Department of the Inspectorate-General of Military Training, member of Kuomintang Central Executive Committee and of Central Political Council since 1929. From 1929 till 1931 he worked as a director of Kuomintang Central Organization Department. Between 1929 till 1931 he was appointed secretary General of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, and concurrently Secretary-General of the Central Political Council.
He served as a chairman of Kuomintang Central Organization Committee since 1932. Chen Li-fu became a member of the National Government Council since 1933. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the National Economic Council since 1933. Despite the onerous duties imposed on him by his multifarious positions, Mr. Chen managed to find time to devote to writing and public lectures.
Chen Li-fu was the author of many books, including a Chinese dictionary published by the Chung Hwa Book Company, Shanghai. He is also the founder of a new system of philosophy based on Dr. Sun Yat-aen's teachings and set forth in a two-volume work entitled Wei-sen-len of which more than 100,000 copies were sold in the next two years, as well as a prime mover in various popular movements such as the New Life Movement, the Culture-control Movement, the Read-A- Book Movement, etc.
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1987He had clearly anti-communist views.