Lu Zhiwei

In 1920, he graduated from the University of Chicago Department of Psychology with the doctoral paper "The Conditions of Retention".

Lu returned to China that year and was hired by various academies in Nanjing.

While he was teaching in the University of Nanjing, he became the first one to introduce the Pavlovian theories into China along with various other Western psychological ideas.

Lu began to turn his devotion of research into the Chinese linguistics, and published various papers beginning in 1939.

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Lu was transferred to the Chinese Academy of Science.