Background
Mr. Chen was born in Pujiang, Zhejiang, China, in 1899.
Mr. Chen was born in Pujiang, Zhejiang, China, in 1899.
Chen Teh-cheng studied at Middle School of Hangzhou Christian College and graduated in physics.
Following his graduation from Hangzhou Christian College he became a teacher in the Vincent Miller Academy in Suzhou for a term and later taught successively in various other middle schools. Mr. Chen became a principal of the Middle School of the University of Shanghai in 1923, but left the school a few months later because of his opposition to Communist activities in the school. Chen Teh-cheng then joined the Republican Daily News as an editor-in-chief but was arrested shortly afterward by the northern clique.
Mr. Chen succeeded in escaping to Canton where he was appointed by the National Government as secretary to the government. In April, 1926, he was appointed member of the commission for Communist elimination of the Shanghai Special Municipality. Following the fifth plenary session of the Kuomintang in 1928 he was appointed director of the Shanghai Special Kuomintang Headquarters.
Chen Teh-cheng was elected a member of the executive committee of the same and director of the propaganda department in 1928 and in April, 1929 was appointed concurrently commissioner of Education of Shanghai Special Municipality, of which post he was relieved in October, 1930. Afterwards he served as a principal of the Chien Yeh Middle School in Shanghai.