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Mr. Pei-Yu Chien, was born in 1896 in Kiangyin, Kiangsu. After having finished his elementary school work, he went to Peking where he entered Tsing-hua College. After the Revolution of 1911, he became a student in Peking University of the Methodist Mission. He entered the Customs College, Peking, in 1914 and was graduated in 1918. He was then appointed to a position in the Chinese Maritime Customs in Tientsin where he stayed for three years. During his stay in Tientsin, Mr. Chien acted also as one of the editors of the Yin Shih Pao, or Social Welfare. In 1921, he was appointed the representative of Social Welfare to the Second Press Congress of the World held in Honolulu and then proceeded to Washington, D. C., to cover the Disarmament Conference for his paper. After the Washington Conference he attended the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri, the oldest and best-known institution of its kind in the States. While he was in school, he won several prizes on account of his literary attainments. He returned to China in June 1923, after receiving