Background
Mr. Chen was native of Guangxi. He was born in Hunan, China, in 1894.
Mr. Chen was native of Guangxi. He was born in Hunan, China, in 1894.
Chen Ting received Chinese classical education under private tutors, and graduated from the Provincial Law School of Hubei in 1915.
Chen Ting was admitted to the bar in 1917. He became a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after passing the Examination for High Civil Service in 1919. In 1925 Mr. Chen was appointed Attache to the Chinese Delegation accredited to the League of Nations. He served as Secretary to the Chinese Delegations to the Annual Assemblies of the League of Nations from 1925 to 1927. Since 1926 Chen Ting worked as a technical expert to the Chinese Delegation to the World Economic Conference.
In 1928 Mr. Chen was appointed second secretary of the Chinese Delegation accredited to the League of Nations. The following year he was appointed government representative on the League Advisory Commission for Refugees. Chen Ting was also a government representative on the Conference Internationale des Colonies de Vacances et Oeuvres de Plein Air at Geneva in 1931, and substitute delegate to the International Conference for Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs in Geneva in 1931.
Mr. Chen was appointed first secretary of the Chinese Delegation accredited to the League of Nations, and elected member of the International Diplomatic Academy, Paris, in 1930. He was nominated in 1932 as a member of the panel for Commissions of Enquiry of the International Labor Office to consider international complaints under Article 357 of the Peace Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1919. Chen Ting served as technical expert and assistant secretary-general to the Chinese Delegations to the Annual Assemblies of the League of Nations from 1928 to 1934.
Chen Ting acted as a technical expert to the Chinese Delegations to the World Disarmament Conference and to the Extraordinary Assembly of the League of Nations dealing with the Sino-Japanese dispute in 1932. He was appointed technical delegate to the Universal Postal Congress in Cairo, which took place in 1934.