St. John's University

And this made him a bit of an outsider, even in his own country.

He was educated at St. John's University in Shanghai, where classes were taught exclusively in English.

He then went on to Harvard for his master's and Leipzig University in Germany for his Ph.D. in linguistics.

You could say that by the time he returns to China in the 1920s, he's one of those quote unquote model westernized men.