Shiing-shen chern early life
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Biography
Shiing-shen Chern's father, Baozhen Chern, was a classically trained Confucian scholar who later became a lawyer working for the government. Baozhen Chern had married Mei Han and they had two sons and two daughters.Shiing-shen Chern, whose name can also be written as Chen Xingshen, was educated at home as well as occasionally attending Chia-hsing elementary school from the winter of 1917 until 1920.
Shiing-shen chern interesting facts[Schooling in China at this time was just beginning to get organised following the revolution in the country around the time Chern was born.] He was taught Chinese by his aunt and mathematics by his father. Chern's daughter writes in [32]:-
...He entered the Xiushui Middle School in 1920 but, in 1922, his father moved to Tianjin and Chern spent the nexthe didn't have a very strict father and mother who forced him to study all the time. He did things on his own and spent a lot of time in his younger days with his grandmother who probably spoiled him as much as she could.