After spending eleven years the Continent studying, teaching, and writing books, Mr. Sheng: Cheng, former resident of Shanghai Jand Nanking returned in the str. Revere. At 31, Mr. Cheng has several books to his credit, books which were reviewed in fifteen Euro-
}pean languages and now, after be-jing translated from the original French, the first has been published jin New York, the second, off the press a year later, is "Ma Mere et Moi." They deal with comparative Chinese civilizations. The former was prefaced by Paul Valery of the Académie Francaise. At present Mr. Cheng is correspondent for "Les Nouvelles Litteraires."
Leaving here in 1919, the than youthful Cheng went to London, after a year establishing a permanent residence in France, studying at the University of' Montpellier and later spending a year at the University of Padua in Italy, subject, the student prepared him-Selecting sociology as is major self first in all the natural sciences.
For his degree of high licence, he wrote 300-page book on the Zoological-Sociological characteris ties of the scorpion, which has not yet been published, Advised of turn to something {for the time being more practical Jand useful to his native land than sociology, he took up sericulture and last year was professor of this science at the Sorbonne.
Mr, Cheng proposes to remain in China for several years, making a study of the various aspects of growing silkworms, localities, cli mates, and the cultural, industrial ind economic factors involved. At times he will lecture on sericulture.
Questioned as to the various grades of silkworms, Mr. Cheng. said that those round Wusih were probably the best in the world. Eggs had been taken to France, but family undergoes a complete biological change in eight years, Some of the eggs of a later generation were re-exported to China, but failed to respond, a though placed under native condi tions.
Chinese silk was noted for its! quality, in Japan a greater quantity came from a single worm. His immediate superior, Prof. Lambert, he stated, described Chinese silk as being the best as to elasticity and tenacity. Prof. Lambert advised him to return to China and to take up the eudgel—developing China silk—to produce it economically and compete with artificial silk. As early as the first century, the Romans had sent a delegation to \China to secure eggs along the lk Road," from Sidon (Syria) to Sianfu, he concluded. ing; in other words to warn against evil, to improve the body, mind aal soul and prepare the members take their rightful place in the Community as useful, helpful citi-
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