Columbia University
Ma Yinchu went to which school from 1910 to 1914?
Ma Yinchu Ma Yinchu ( ; 1882–1982 ) was a prominent Chinese economist . He was the father of family planning . Biography . Early life . Ma Yinchu was born in Sheng County , Shaoxing , Zhejiang . 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 fathers 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 to 1942 . In 1949 , at the request of Zhou Enlai , he served as a nonpartisan delegate to the Chinese Peoples 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 . New Population Theory . In June 1957 , at the fourth session of the First National Peoples Congress , Ma presented his New Population Theory . Having examined trends of the early 1950s , he concluded that further population growth at such high rates would be detrimental to Chinas development . Therefore , he advocated government control of fertility . During the following three years , Mas theory suffered two rounds of attacks , and he was dismissed from public life . The charges of the government were that the theory followed Malthusianism , attempted to discredit the superiority of socialism , and showed contempt for the people . Rehabilitation and later life . Mas New Population Theory did not receive mention in the Peoples Daily again until June 5 , 1979 . On July 26 of the same year , the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China formally apologized to him , stating that events had validated his theory . In September 1979 , all charges against him were retracted , and he was made honorary president of Peking University . Ma Yinchu died on May 10 , 1982 due to heart and lung disease and pneumonia . Legacy . Even before Mas death , scholars were realizing the enormity of the governments error in censoring his views for two decades . This view can be demonstrated by the title of a newspaper article published in 1979 : Erroneously criticized one person , population mistakenly increased 300,000,000 . Mas theory also became enshrined in public policy ; Chinas One Child Policy draws heavily on Mas reasoning that the State should have the power to intervene in reproduction and to control population , and follows his advice in heavily utilizing propaganda on the dangers of population growth . In Mas hometown , a middle school has been named in his honor . His birth home is being renovated as a museum , and the street on which it resides is now called Famous Man Street . Nationally , the scholar is featured prominently in primary and middle school textbooks as Uncle Ma , where he is praised for his contributions to population control and environmental protection . In 1997 , a nine-part series about his life was aired in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the publication of his population theory .