Background
Mr. Ch'ien was born in Kwangteh, Anhui, China, in 1878.
Mr. Ch'ien was born in Kwangteh, Anhui, China, in 1878.
Ch'ien W. H. attended the Imperial College of Languages, Peking and received his Chu-Jen (Master of Arts) degree with official rank of 7th grade.
Mr. Ch'ien attached to the Board of Education in 1909. He served as a superintendent of Chinese Government students in Great Britain in 1910. Ch'ien W. H. was a Chinese delegate to International Race Congress, London, in 1911. The following year he was appointed Chinese delegate to International Moral Education Congress in the Hague. Since 1913 he became a special delegate to Europe, America and Japan to study the system of Government and Education and member on the Commission for the organization of Yen Wu Shu.
Later Ch'ien W. H. was appointed consul in San Francisco and concurrently special deputy to investigate salt affairs in America. From 1914 he served as a councillor of Chinese commission, and representative for Anhui to the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Mr. Ch'ien was a member of International Jury of Award of Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. In 1916 he was appointed district inspector of salt revenue, Yunnan. Mr. Ch'ien took up the post of a district inspector of salt revenue at Tianjin in 1918. Since 1919 he acted as a district inspector of salt revenue in Hangzhou.
Mr. Ch'ien resumed his office as a chief of the Anhui salt transportation office in 1921. He was reappointed inspector of salt revenue in Hangzhou in 1922. He became an auditor of salt revenue in Hankou from 1925. In 1926 Mr. Ch'ien was appointed chief of the Hubei transportation office and salt commissioner of Liangshan.He resumed his position as district inspector of salt revenue in Hangzhou in 1928.
Since 1931 he took the post of a district inspector of salt revenue in Fuzhou. Mr. Ch'ien was appointed district inspector of Salt Revenue of Chuannan, Sichuan, in 1932. He retired from Government service at age of 60 according to salt regulations (1938).