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|image = |nationality = Chinese American (1962–1970) |birth_date = |birth_place = Panyu, Guangdong |death_date = |death_place = New York City |resting_place = Manhattan Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York |spouse = Sun Lishu 孫麗淑 (1911–1995) |children = Da Tong 大同 Da Ming 大明 Da Hua 大華 Da Wai 大偉 Da Wen 大文 |religion = Bahá'í |alma_mater = Cornell University |occupation = Government official |signature = }} Liao Chongzhen (; 25 May 1898 – 12 September 1971), (Cantonese romanization: Chan Sung Liu), was a Chinese government official and president of the College of Agriculture at Sun Yat-sen University. He witnessed the establishment of the Republic of China and Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionary held meetings at his father's home. Liao's family played an instrumental role in the modernisation of education in China. He was appointed to Director of the Department of Sericulture under the Kuomintang (KMT), achieving a great improvement of agriculture through Guangdong province.〔The Rise and Fall of Guangdong Silk Industry: http://news.dayoo.com/history/201008/24/88669_13685663.htm〕〔Liao Chongzhen and the silk industry: http://www.gzzxws.gov.cn/gzws/gzws/ml/39/200809/t20080917_8868.htm〕 Many dams. bridges and irrigation canals in Guangdong province were named by him. During his lifetime he was also a prominent member of the Bahá'í Faith doing many translations from Bahá'u'lláh's and 'Abdu'l-Bahá's writings into Chinese. ==Birth and family background== Liao Chongzhen was born in Canton (now Guangzhou) on 25 May 1897. He was the fourth of ten children. His grandfather Liao Xin Tiang 廖莘田 and his elder brother were orphans in the mid 19th century. They roamed the streets of Guangzhou, where some Christian proselytizers had set up feeding stations for the hordes of suffering humanity displaced by war and misrule of the Manchus. At age 14, he converted to Christianity. He was self-educated. He became a doctor of Chinese medicine, a Baptist minister fluent in English, and an admirer of democracy. He had one son, Liao Deshan 廖德山. Liao Deshan became also a Baptist minister and earned the license of Christian practice as a medical doctor from the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (the forerunner of the University of Hong Kong) in 1892. There he met Sun Yat-sen. Notably, of their class of 12 students, he and Sun were the only two who graduated.〔HK university. () (2002). Growing with Hong Kong: the University and its graduates: the first 90 years. ISBN 962-209-613-1, ISBN 978-962-209-613-4.〕〔Singtao daily. 28 February 2011. 特別策劃 section A10. Sun Yat-sen Xinhai revolution 100th anniversary edition.〕〔South China morning post. Birth of Sun heralds dawn of revolutionary era for China. 11 November 1999.〕 Sun Yat-sen played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty and was appointed to serve as Provisional President of the Republic of China, when it was founded in 1912. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liao Chongzhen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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