Chen, Chin-Tao.-Born in Nan-Hai, Kwangtung, 1870. Married. Graduated from Queen's College, Hongkong. Was instructor at Queen's College and professor at Peiyang University. Arrived in America, 1901. Government support. Studied Mathematics and Social Science at the University of California, 1901-2; Political Economy at Yale University, 1902-6. M.S., 1902; Ph. D., 1906. Subject of doctor's dissertation:-"Societary Circulation."Returned to China, 1906. Hanlin, 1906. Was Inspector of Education at Canton and Peking; Inspector of Ta-Ching Government Bank; Chief of the Department of Budgets in the Ministry of Finance; Chief of the Department of Financial Statistics in the Ministry of Finance; Vice-Director of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving; Chairman of the Currency Reform Commission; Vice-Governor of the Ta-Ching Government Bank; Member of the Tze Cheng Yuan; Vice-President of the Ministry of Finance in Yuan Shih-Kai's Cabinet; Minister of Finance, Nanking Provisional Government: Representative to the Interna-tional Conference of Chamber of Commerce, Boston, U.S.A.; Commissioner to select site for Chinese Government Pavilion at the Panama-Pacific Interna-tional Exposition, San Francisco; Auditor-General of the Central Audit Bureau; Financial Commissioner to Europe; Advisor to President; Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs; etc. Minister of Finance, 1916-17. Second Class Pao-Kwan Chia Ho Decoration.