Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chin Pang-cheng
Mr. P. C. King
金邦正字仲蕃
(Chin Pang-cheng)
Mr. P. C. King is a native of Anhui but he was born in Hangchow, Chekiang Province, in 1887. Between 1901 and 1902 he studied at the Nanyang Institute of Technology. From 1905 to 1908 he attended the Nankai Middle School, Tientsin, where he graduated. From 1908 to 1909 he studied at the Customs College, Peking. Mr. King successfully passed the competitive examinations conducted by the Bureau of the Educational Mission to the United States of America, and was sent to America in November 1909. He prepared himself for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and in 1910 joined Cornell University where he specialized in forestry. He received his degree of B. S. and M. F. in 1914. At Cornell he was elected to Sigma Xi in May 1914. He returned to China in October 1914, and was introduced to Mr. Han Kuo-chun, then Civil Governor of the Anhwei Province, by Professor Joseph Bailie, of the University of Nanking, and was appointed to start and take charge of the forestry work for the whole province and to conduct at the same time the Provincial Agricultural School at Anking. Later he opened a forestry department in the Agriculture School, and organized the Bureau of Forestry for Anhwei. A nursery was organized and extensive reforestation in several districts of the province was planned and carried out. Mr. King left Anhui during General Chang Hsun's monarchical movement in June 1917. In the summer of 1917 he was appointed by Mr. Fan Yuan-lien, then Minister of Education, to be president of the Government Agricultural College, Peking. He held this position for three years. In August 1920 Mr. King was appointed president of the Tsing Hua College to succeed Dr. Hawk-ling Yen who was appointed secretary to the League of Nations. In January 1922 Mr. King was appointed director of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States and to be concurrently director of the Tsing Hau Students Mission. These positions he is still holding.
