Chiang Monlin, was a Chinese educator, writer, and politician. Jiang was born in Yuyao, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province on 20 January 1886. Jiang studied at Zhejiang Advanced College (now Zhejiang University) in Hangzhou in 1903. In 1908, he went to America and studied at University of California, Berkeley. At first, he majored in agriculture, and then he turned to pedagogy.Jiang obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University under John Dewey’s guidance.