Background
Mr. Lien was born in 1884 in Hsuen Teh, Kwangtung, China.
Mr. Lien was born in 1884 in Hsuen Teh, Kwangtung, China.
Shen-hai Lien studied in Japan and was graduated in political science and economics from Waseda University in 1916.
On returning from Japan, Shen-hai Lien was appointed secretary to the Senate, he served as ranking secretary of the Military Government, the Generalissimo's Headquarters and the President's Office in 1918-1924, chief, bureau of engraving of the Generalissimo's Headquarters and President's Office for several years.
Upon the reorganization of the National Government he was appointed secretary and later relinquished this position to reorganize the Kwangtung Provincial Government, secretary-general of the Ministry of Communications and early in 1926 secretary - general of the Nationalist Government at Hankow, China.
He also served in the same capacity at Nanking for five months, Mr. Lien was a political vice-Minister of the Ministry of Railways in 1929-1931, member of the State Council of the National Government, author of a work on Chinese engraving and co-translator of a number of famous English novels into Chinese.
Mr. Lien took charge of the Cantonese members of that organization in Shanghai in 1910-911, after joining that revolutionary society he became a close follower of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, particularly in Dr. Sun's work in the Straits Settlements before the downfall of the Manchu Dynasty and in Shanghai and Japan after the Second Revolution.