Dr. Lian-Cang Xu (徐联仓, 1927–2015), born in HainingCounty, Zhejiang Province, China, is a well-known Chinesepsychologist (Fig. 1), the founder of management psychologyin China, and also the pioneer of industrial psychologyand engineering psychology.From 1947 to 1949, Lian-Cang Xu studied in Departmentof Philosophical Education1 in Nankai University, and thentransferred to Tsinghua University, majoring in psychology.After acquiring bachelor’s degree in 1951, he began hisacademic career in the Institute of Psychology, ChineseAcademy of Sciences (IPCAS), where he worked all his life.He was mainly engaged in industrial psychology studiesabout quality control, production safety, and operationrationalization in the early 1950s. What’s more, theseresearch finding were successfully popularized in Chinesetextile and metallurgy industry (Fu, 2015).Aiming to continue his education, Lian-Cang Xu went toPsychological Research Institute of Russian Soviet FederatedSocialist Republic (RSFSR) Pedagogical ScienceAcademy2 in 1958 (Fig. 2), and received a Kandidat Naukdegree3 in 1962. During this period in USSR, he introducedinformation theory into psychological science creatively, andproposed a brand-new analytic method of scrap in production.His theory and method were applied in a televisionfactory experimentally and that resulted in the improvementof product quality. This study was included in a textbooknamed “Labor Psychology” published by Pedagogical ScienceAcademy later. Because of these outstanding performances,he was awarded with Ulsenski Prize by theacademy.
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