Chen, Wei-Ping.-Born in Peking, 1876. Married, 1897. Studied at Peking Methodist University, 1887-95. B.A., 1895. Arrived in America, June, 1910. Private support. Studied Liberal Arts at Ohio Wesleyan University, 1910-11; at the University of Michigan, 1911-13; at Boston University, 1913-15. M.A., 1911; Ph. D., 1915. Subject of doctor's dissertation:-"Development of the Custom House under the Tsing Dynasty". Returned to China, January, 1916. Editor, Christian Advocate, Shanghai, 1916.