Chen Jiyu, a pioneer in Estuarine and Coastal Science in mainland China, died on 28 November 2017, at the age of 96 in Shanghai, China. He was a pleasant, graceful, and witty person, a pleasure to know. I feel compelled to write this obituary for him, since his death has suddenly deprived me and others of a good and kind friend.
Chen was born on 17 September 1921, in Hengchun Village, Baixian Town, Guanyun County, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, China. He studied at Donghai Normal School in 1935 and 1936. His school was bombed by the Japanese air force in 1937. Chen went on to study at Jiangsu Province First Union School in 1938. However, his schooling moved around mainland China because of the Second World War. In 1941, Chen entered the Department of History and Geography at the National Che Kiang University (currently Zhejiang University) at Yongxing, a suburb...
