Background

Mr. Tiao was born in Hsing-ning Hsien, Kwangtung, China (Guangdong, China) in August 1888.

Education

When he was seven years old, his parents sent him to Honolulu where he first entered St. Peter's School and later Iolani College. Mr. Tiao returned to China in 1900 and entered St. John's University, Shanghai, China where he was graduated in February, 1907 at the head of his class.

After graduation he taught for two years and early in 1909 he went to England and entered the University of London. In November, 1914 Tiao Min-ch'ien received Bachelor of Laws degree with honors. In July, 1916 he was awarded the Doctor of Laws. degree, the subject of his thesis being "The Legal Obligations Arising out of Treaty Relations between China and other States".

Career

Prior to going abroad, Min-ch'ien Tiao was editor of the World's Chinese Students' Journal from 1906 till 1913. While in England he was London correspondent of the Republican Advocate in Shanghai, China, edited The East in the West in London, and contributed articles to the London Times, the Contemporary Review, and other magazines.

He represented China at the Universal Peace Congress in Stockholm, Sweden in August 1910, and also, together with Dr. C. T. Wang, at the World's Christian Students' Conference in Constantinople, Turkey in May 1911, as well as the Anti-Opium Congress in Paris in May, 1914.

Upon his return to China in September, 1916 Mr. Tiao was engaged by Tsing Hua College (Peiping) to lecture on international law and teach English. In December, 1917 he founded the Peking Leader (Peiping) and was its editor until September, 1919.

Re-resumed lecturing at Tsing Hua College in October, 1919 and in December 1920, he served as technical expert to the Chinese Delegation to the League of Nations Assembly. In October, 1921 Min-ch'ien Tiao was appointed secretary of the Chinese delegation to the Washington Conference, and upon his return was made a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Iin April, 1924 Mr. Tiao was awarded the Third Class Chiaho Decoration. Between 1925 and 1929 he was secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, assistant director in the Drafting Department at the Customs Conference, secretary to the Commission and later acting director of the conference department of the Directorate General of Sino-Russian negotiations. He also assisted Dr. C. T. Wang in his negotiations with Mr. Karakhan, the Soviet Ambassador, and drafted the Sino-Soviet agreements which were initialled by Dr. Wang and Mr. Karakhan on March 14, 1924, and subsequently signed with slight modifications by Dr. Wellington Koo and Mr. Karakhan on May 81, 1924. He assisted Dr. Wang Chung-hui, president of the Judicial Yuan, in his discussions with the foreign delegates to the commission for the investigation of extraterritorial jurisdiction which Bat in Peking between December 1925 and September 1926 in pursuance of the Washington Conference. In June, 1929 Min-ch'ien Tiao was promoted councillor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, two months later, appointed concurrently director of the Intelligence and Publicity Department of the same Ministry. Then he was transferred as member of the Treaty Commission, same Ministry in December, 1931, but did not take up office.

Mr. Tiao was a delegate to the Banff (Canada) conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations (Honolulu) on August, 1933, did special publicity work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1933, Adviser to the same Ministry, since January 1934.

Works

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• Other Work

  • China Awakened

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • The legal obligations arising out of treaty relations between China and other states

    (This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)

  • London Through Chinese Eyes: Or, My Seven and a Half Years in London [ 1920 ]

    (Originally published in 1920. This volume from the Cornel...)