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M r . T . C . Cheng Schools and was concurrently secretary to several im­ portant Boards and Committees dealing with the policy and administration of local education. During this period, he taught at the University of Hong Kong and the Teacher Training Colleges. He was twice Chairman of the Educa­ tion Society of the University of Hong Kong during the post-war years. From 1954, Mr. Cheng was transferred to the Adminis- trative Service and served in various Government Depart- ments as District Officer in the New Territories Adminis- tration, Planning Officer in the Resettlement Department, Administrative Officer in the Commerce and Industry Department, etc. In 1958 hewas appointed Joint Secretary to the Advisory Committee on the proposed Federation of Hong Kong Industries, and in the same year he attended the ECAFE Conference in Bangkok as a Hong Kong delegate. In 1960 he led the Hong Kong Delegation at an International Anti-narcotics Conference in Lahore. Mr. Cheng's last administrative appointment before returning to educa­ tional service was that of Chief Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Mr. Cheng assumed duty as President of the United College in January 1963. He has been for some time a Member of the Hong Kong University Court, Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong University Convocation, a Member of the Council of the Hong Kong Institute of Social Research, and a Member of the Training-in- Industry Committee of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. In the spring of this year, Mr. Cheng visited leading American Universities and Colleges for two months at the invitation of the U.S. State Department. Mr. and Mrs. Cheng have two children: the elder one is a daughter, now studying in England; the younger one, a son, is at school in Hong Kong. D r . C h 'ien M u , P resident, N ew A s ia College Dr. Ch'ien Mu was born in Wusih, Kiangsu, China, in 1895. After his graduation from a secondary school in VVuchin at the age of 17, he taught primary and middle schools in Wusih and Soochow for 18 years to help sup­ porting his family during which he devoted himself to the study of Chinese literature and philosophy. D r . C h 'ien M u His first major work The C h ro n o log ical B iographies o f L iu H sian g a n d H is S o n L iu H s in , published in 1930 in Yenching U niversity J o u r n a l, won him recognition and a professorship to teach at Yenching University. The next year he accepted a professorship in Chinese History at National Peking University where he completed his second major work A L in k e d C hronology o f P re-C h'in Philosophers which hestarted writing in 1923 and published in 1933. Between 1937 and 1949, Professor Ch’ien had taught in half a dozen universities in China and published many books of which the best-known are A H is to ry o f L e arning in C h in a D u rin g the P a st Three H u n d re d Years (1937) and A n O u tlin e o f the H isto ry o f C h in a (1939). Professor Ch'ien founded New Asia College in Hong Kong in 1949. In recognition of his scholarship, the University of Hong Kong conferred him an honorary LL.D. degree in 1955. During his visit to the United States in 1960, he was awarded an honorary H.L.D. by Yale University. Dr. Ch'ien has published a score of books since 1949. Among them are Collected Notes a n d Comm entaries on C h u a n g T z u , A n In tro d u c tio n to New- C o nfucianism D u rin g S u n g a n d M in g D y nasties, and A H is to ry o f Chinese T hought. His most recent work is N ew Interpretations o f C o n fu c ian A nalects published last March. 5