Liao Chongzhen
Liao Chongzhen (; 25 May 1898 – 12 September 1971), also known as 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. Many dams. bridges and irrigation canals in Guangdong province were named by him. During his lifetime he was also a prominent member of the Baháʼí 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