Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Ch'eng Ching-i
Dr. Ch'eng Ching-i
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Dr. Ch'eng Ching-i was born of Manchu parents. Like his father, who for twenty-five years was a Minister of the Gospel in connection with the London Missionary Society Church in Peking until his death, Cheng Ching-yi has been a member of their branch of the Church from childhood. Receiving his education under Christian influence he decided voluntarily to devote the rest of his life to the propagation of the Fu-yin (Blessed News). He served as Church Secretary in the London Missionary Society, Peking, from 1900 to 1903. Dr. Ch'eng was appointed assistant revisor of the Chinese text of the New Testament and served in this capacity for three years. From 1908 to 1913 Dr. Ch'eng was pastor of the three self-supporting churches of the London Missionary Society and in 1910 was representative of the Chinese Churches of the London Missionary Society to the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh. From 1910 to 1913 Dr. Ch'eng was the only Chinese member of the Edinburgh Continuation Committee. In 1913 he was appointed Chinese general secretary of the China Continuation Committee. This position he is still holding. In 1916 one of the Canadian universities conferred upon Dr. Ch'eng the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. He is the only Chinese to hold this degree from a British University. Dr. Ch'eng was one of the prime movers in the organization of the China-for-Christ Movement in 1919 and was later elected the general secretary. Dr. Ch'eng was unanimously elected the First Chairman of the National Christian Conference, the initial meetings of which were held in the Shanghai Town Hall from May 2 to 11, 1922. Dr. Ch'eng left China in August 1922 for America and Canada on a two year's furlough. He is at present taking special courses of study in the leading universities, after which he will go probably to Europe to study conditions there. In 1918 Dr. Ch'eng was appointed chairman of the Chinese Home Missionary Society, Shanghai an organization composed entirely of Chinese that has been doing the work of sending Chinese missionaries to inland China such as the remote part of Yunnan, Szechuan, Kueichow, etc.
