Background

Fu Shang-ling was born in Shantou, Guangdong, China, in 1902.

Education

Mr. Fu received his preliminary education from his parents. He graduated with Bachelor of Arts from the University of Shanghai in 1921.

He recieved his postgraduate studies in the London School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London and research work in the School of Oriental Studies at Cambridge from 1925 to 1929. Fu Shang-ling received Doctor of Letters in 1931.

Career

Dr. Fu Shang-ling held the post of a teacher at the Shantou (Swatow) Academy and concurrently lecturer of the Guangdong (Kwangtung) Provincial Commercial College and secretary of the Shantou (Swatow) Y.M.C.A. from 1921 to 1923. Since 1923 he was the president of the Shantou (Swatow) Sunday Club.

Mr. Fu was an organiser of the Ling Tung Experimental School for promoting Mass Education and did social reform work with his brother, Dan. S. Y. Fu and director of the Shantou (Swatow) Municipal Sanitary Laboratory and president of the Shantou (Swatow) Academy between 1921 and 1923. He was a member of the Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Honorary Secretary of the Hong Kong Chinese Merchants' League and Manager of the Hwamer Co., London, 1924-1925.

In 1924 Fu Shang-ling was appointed delegate to the World's 9th Sunday School Convention, Glasgow, and Honorary Vice-President of the Paisley District Sunday School Union since 1928. In 1925-1926 he served as an Honorary Secretary of the Central Union of Chinese Students in Great Britain and Ireland and of the Union of Chinese Associations in Great Britain. From 1926 to 1927 Mr. Fu worked as an editor of The Chinese Student, London.

He travelled extensively in Great Britain giving lectures on China around 1924 to 1929. member of the Royal Asiatic Society, British Institute of Philosophical Studies, China Society, American Sociological Society Honorary Fellow of le Societe Internationale de Philologie, Sciences et Beaux-Arts and its representative in China. He also was a fellow of the Royal Economic Society.

Dr. Fu worked as a dean, Head of Department and Professor of Sociology and History, Fujian (Fukien) Christian University, Fuzhou (Foochow) between 1929 to 1930.

Fu Shang-ling wasa professor of the National Tsing Hua University and concurrently exchange lecturer of Yenching University and lecturer of the National Normal University, Beijing (Peking),1930-1932. Between 1932 and 1933 Mr. Fu served as an Honorary President of the Tianjin (Tientsin) Anglo-Chinese College. He also was the head of the Department and Professor of Sociology, National Sunyatsen University, Canton.

Dr. Fu Shang-ling was an author of numerous books.

Works

• book

  • "The Forms of the Family and Social Organisation"

  • "A Social Morphological Study of the Existing Complex of the Chinese Family Group"

  • "One Generation of Chinese Studies in Cambridge"

  • "The Chinese Family- a Sociological Study of Its Structure"

  • "Records of the Aboriginal Tribes in South Western China"

  • "Kinship System in China"

  • "The Word 'Chia', a Philological Study, showing its Sociological Significance,"

  • "Foreword to the Chinese Student"

  • "Sociological Foundations of Peace"

  • "Lord Shaftsbury and Social-Industrial Progress, —a Review"

  • "Christian Education in China"

  • "Buddhist Philosophy"

  • "The Chinese Renaissance"

  • "Two Builders of Civilisation"

  • "Backgrounds of Social Disorders in China"