Cha Liang-chao

Cha Liang-chao (Chinese: 查良釗; pinyin: Zhā Liángzhāo; 1897 – 12 December 1982) was an educator and philanthropist of the Republic of China.

Biography

Cha Liang-chao was born in 1897 in Tientsin, his family being from Haining, Zhejiang. He was a cousin of Jin Yong.

Cha graduated from Nankai Middle School, Tientsin in 1913, and from Tsinghua College, Peking, in 1917. He taught at Tsinghua Middle School from 1917 to 1918.

Cha went to the United States in August 1918, and attended Grinnell College and University of Chicago.

He lectured for the Chautauqua Association, Swarthmore, Pa. on Chinese subjects in the summer of 1920. Mr. Cha attended Teachers' College, Columbia University, N. Y., in 1920-1922, and received the degree of M. A. from Columbia University June 1921, doing research work in the Department of Educational Administration.

He was chairman of the executive committee of the Chinese Students' Committee on the Washington Conference.

Cha returned to China in July 1922 and became professor of education in Peking Teachers College (now Beijing Normal University) in August 1922. He was elected by the Faculty Council as acting dean of studies in May 1923; Lecturer in the Summer School of Nankai University Tientsin, 1923; and Director of the Institute for the Application of Scientific Measurement on Education, under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Education, August, 1923, with Dr. Wm. A. MoOall and Dr. T. T. Liew as lecturers.

In January 1924 Cha was appointed by President Fan Yuan-Lien as Professor of Education and Dean of Studies. He authored the "Survey Educational Tests," published by the Commercial Press, 1928.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Who's Who in China, 3rd ed. Shanghai: The China Weekly Review. 1925.