Chien, Sung-Shu.-Born in Shanghai. Married. Studied at Nanyang College, Shanghai, 1904-7; at Tangshan Railway and Engineering College, 1908-9; at Chihlih Provincial College, Paoting, 1909-10. Arrived in America, September, 1910. Government support. Studied Botany at the University of Illinois, 1910-14; at the University of Chicago, 1914-16: at Harvard University, 1916. B.A., 1914. Author, "Plant Physiology", Botanical Gazette, 1916. Returned to China, July, 1916. Teacher, First Provincial Agricultural College, Nanking, 1916 to date.