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WHO'S WHO IN CHINA

Mr. Tao-yu C. Sun

孫多字章甫

(Sun To-yu')

Mr. Tao-yu C. Sun was born at Shou Hsien, Anbui province. After having received his preparatory education at home, he went to America in 1899 to study. He entered the Cornell University in 1905 and graduated with the degree of Civil Engineer in 1909. He returned to China in July 1909. Subsequently he was appointed a councillor of the Hanlin Yuan under the Ching Regime. Once he was an assistant examiner for students going abroad for study. Mr. Sun was assistant-engineer of the Kirin-Changchun Railway, 1909-10; district engineer of the same railway, 1910-11; managing director of the same railway, 1911-13; managing-director, Nanking-Changsha Railway, 1914-16; managing-director, Shanghai-Nanking Railway and Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, 1919; and managing