Ma Yinchu

Ma Yinchu
Born	1882 Shengzhou City, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China
Died	1982
Occupation	Economist

Ma Yinchu (simplified Chinese: 马寅初; traditional Chinese: 馬寅初; pinyin: Mǎ Yínchū; 1882–1982) was a prominent Chinese economist. He was the father of the family planning.

Ma Yinchu was born in a family at now Shengzhou City, a county-level city that is administered by Shaoxing, in Zhejiang province. He was the fifth child of the owner of a small distillery that specialized in fermented rice liquor. While his father wished for him to carry on this business, Ma showed an inclination toward scholarship. As a result, his father cut him off financially, and their relationship never recovered. At 16, Ma attended middle school in Shanghai. Despite losing his father's support, he studied mining and metallurgy at Beiyang University (now called Tianjin University ). In 1907, Ma received government sponsorship to study economics at Yale University, after which he received a Ph.D. in economics and philosophy from Columbia University in 1914. In 1920 he helped to found the Shanghai College of Commerce, and in 1923 he became the founding president of the Chinese Economics Society. During the 1930s, Ma began to criticize the Kuomintang government under Chiang Kai-shek, and was subsequently placed under house arrest from 1940–2. In 1949, at the request of Zhou Enlai, he served as a nonpartisan delegate to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. From 1950 to 1951, he served as the president of Zhejiang University, and then as the president of Peking University from 1951 to 1960. In this position, Ma was well liked, and seen as warm and genuine by his students. However, he was removed due to his unorthodox economic views.

...
Wikipedia