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Family background, childhood and education in Chefoo, Shantung Province; Ch'ing Hua College; Boxer Indemnity Scholarship for undergraduate years at Harvard, choice of legal career and Harvard Law School, 1917; observations on Boxer Rebellion, Chinese history from 1894 to 1920s, China and the West; positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peking; life and politics in Peking, 1920s; meeting with Sun Yat-sen; positions in the Nationalist government between 1927 and 1949; Sino-Japanese relations and Sino-Soviet relations; Asia Foundation. Includes Chang's 1975 memoir on the reformation of the Chinese Maritime Customs in Nanjing government.