Chen Hsueh-ping
{{Short description|Chinese Educator and Politician (1901-1999)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Chen Hsueh-ping
| native_name = {{nobold|陳雪屏}}
| image = 19660929陳雪屏.jpg
| caption = Chen, 1966
| office = 6th Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan
| term_start = 14 July 1958
| term_end = 29 November 1967
| predecessor = Chen Ching-yu
| successor = Chiang Yen-shih
| birth_date = {{birth date|1901|11|1}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1999|4|12|1901|11|1}}
| birth_place = Jiangsu, Qing Empire
| death_place = Taiwan, Republic of China
| party = Kuomintang
| relations = Yu Ying-shih (son-in-law)
| occupation = Educator, psychologist, politician
| education = National Peking University (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
}}
Chen Hsueh-ping (November 1, 1901 – April 12, 1999) was a Chinese educator, psychologist, and politician in the Republic of China. A member of the Tsotanhui Clique within the Kuomintang.
Biography
Chen was born into a banking family; his father, Chen Shuliu, served as the head of the Bank of Communications in Liaoning under Zhang Zuolin's rule in Northeast China.{{cite news |last=Lin |first=Hsin |title=心理學家志行高節 陳雪屏的一生 |newspaper=中外雜誌 |language=zh-hant |url=https://digroc.pccu.edu.tw/CNH/magazine/magazineview.aspx?ID=D1D992A4AF3AF10A51444EB4A82D186707AD635F1747BE209A3CC4362BD0C3CE74617C78F8CAD7C3}}
After earning his master’s degree in psychology from Columbia University, Chen returned to China and taught at Northeastern University, Beijing Normal University, and Peking University. Following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he joined the National Southwestern Associated University. His efforts to defuse student protests drew the attention of Kang Tse, a close associate of Chiang Kai-shek, which led to his appointment as Minister of Youth in the Three Principles of the People Youth Corps.{{cite news |last=Lin |first=Hsin |title=心理學家志行高節 陳雪屏的一生 |newspaper=中外雜誌 |language=zh-hant |url=https://digroc.pccu.edu.tw/CNH/magazine/magazineview.aspx?ID=D1D992A4AF3AF10A51444EB4A82D186707AD635F1747BE209A3CC4362BD0C3CE74617C78F8CAD7C3}}{{cite book |author=國立教育資料館 |title=教育愛──台灣教育人物誌 |publisher=國立教育資料館 |date=2006 |isbn=9789860050837 |pages=100 |language=zh-hant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkTSfW53Q8MC&dq=%E9%99%B3%E9%9B%AA%E5%B1%8F+%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E6%84%9B&pg=PA100}}
Following the war, Chen returned to Peking University. During the 1946 Shen Chong case, which involved the rape of a female student by U.S. military personnel, Chen not only questioned whether Shen was enrolled at the university but also publicly criticized her for walking alone at night. These remarks, combined with the later revelation that Shen Chong was both a student and a relative of Chen, sparked nationwide anti-American student demonstrations and widespread public outrage.{{cite book |last=丘 |first=延亮 |title=台北之春：六十年代的章回人文誌 |publisher=WANDERER Digital Publishing Inc. |date=2024 |isbn=9786269877102 |pages=141 |language=zh-hant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zMwNEQAAQBAJ&q=%E9%99%B3%E9%9B%AA%E5%B1%8F+&pg=RA1-PA141-IA1}}
During the Chinese Civil War, Chen worked alongside Zhu Jiahua, Fu Sinian, Hang Liwu, and Chiang Ching-kuo to lead efforts to relocate academics from mainland China to Taiwan—a campaign to as the “rescue of intellectuals.”{{cite book |last=岳 |first=南 |title=大學與大師：一九三○至一九六○，烽火中的大學如何奠基百年教育 |publisher=時報文化出版 |date=2019 |isbn=9789571376554 |pages=427 |language=zh-hant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cumIDwAAQBAJ&q=%E9%99%B3%E9%9B%AA%E5%B1%8F+&pg=PA375}}
From 1950 to 1952, Chen served as Director of the First Department under the KMT's Party Reform Program, where he was responsible for overseeing and guiding local party branches across Taiwan.许福明:《中国国民党的改造》第98页，台湾正中书局1986年版。 In 1953, he joined the Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University as a professor and helped lay the groundwork for the university’s graduate research programs.{{cite book |author=國立教育資料館 |title=教育愛──台灣教育人物誌 |publisher=國立教育資料館 |date=2006 |isbn=9789860050837 |pages=100 |language=zh-hant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkTSfW53Q8MC&dq=%E9%99%B3%E9%9B%AA%E5%B1%8F+%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E6%84%9B&pg=PA100}}
By the 1960s, Chen's political fortunes began to decline. He grew increasingly distrusted by Chiang Kai-shek due to his close ties with liberal intellectuals such as Hu Shih and Wang Shijie. Chiang reportedly described Chen in his diary as “surrounded by reactionaries” and accused him of “leveraging Hu Shih to constrain the party.” Although Chiang claimed to exercise restraint, Chen was effectively sidelined from political life and shifted his focus mainly to psychology and academia.{{cite book |last=陳 |first=添壽 |title=臺灣政治經濟思想史論叢. 卷八, 文創產業與法政篇 |publisher=元華文創股份有限公司 |date=2023 |isbn=9789577113306 |language=zh-hant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kM7dEAAAQBAJ&dq=%E9%99%B3%E9%9B%AA%E5%B1%8F+%E8%83%A1%E9%81%A9+%E6%96%87%E5%89%B5%E7%94%A2%E6%A5%AD%E8%88%87%E6%B3%95%E6%94%BF%E7%AF%87&pg=PT111}} His remaining influence in government circles dissipated entirely following the death of his key political patron, Chen Cheng, in 1965.{{cite book |title=民進廣場 |publisher=民進雜誌社 |date=1988 |pages=17 |language=zh-hant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C2M2AQAAIAAJ&q=%E9%99%B3%E9%9B%AA%E5%B1%8F+%E5%9C%98%E6%B4%BE}}
Chen died in 1999 at the age of 97.