Chinese students (interwar period)

Thanks to the Franco-Chinese Society for Education, based in Lyon, Chinese students who could not enroll in their country’s universities came to study in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. At the same time, student-workers, including Zou-En-Lai and Deng-Xiao-Ping, came to work in the rolling mills of Le Creusot. It is worth noting that some of them went on to earn doctorates, including Liang Tieng-yon, who wrote a dissertation about Rousseau (1931), and Fu Tung-sheng, who wrote about the birds of Ho-Nan (1937).