Hong-Fu Chu

He received a BS degree from Tsinghua University in 1935 and took an interest in zoology and entomology.

Chu's book How to the Know the Immature Insect (1949) was a well-known entomology text for many years in the United States of America.

In 1950 he was invited by the Chinese Academy of Science to establish an institute of entomology in Beijing.

He invited other entomologists like Chongle Liu, Banghua Cai, Jinren Lu, Junde Qin, and Shijun Ma to work at the institute.

He began to organize the publishing of Fauna Sinica and a series on the economic insects of China.