About the AuthorChen Jingpan, also named Joseph C. P. Chen, was born in Fujian Province in 1904. In 1929, he graduated from St.John's University in Shanahai with a Master's degree in ptnlosophy; in 1934, he was given a Master's degree in education at Yanjing University, Beijlng; ia 1940, he re" ceived his Ph.D. degree: at at. University of Toronto,Can- ada. He has at 'the BeijingNormal University,China'lnstituite of pedagogy,voceChairman ofthe ChinaInstitute of the HistorychineseEducatic cil;. Member and .concurrently sultant of the Chinaconfucius Foundation