19 18, graduated from Tsinghua University, then went to the United States to study, and studied at Clark University in Massachusetts to study for a master's degree in psychology and sociology.
1920 entered the anthropology department of Harvard University. Under the guidance of ethnographer Roland Dixon and physical anthropologist Ernest Horton, he completed his thesis "The Formation of the China Nation" in 1923, thus obtaining a doctorate in anthropology and returning to China in the same year.