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# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wang Keng

Colonel Wang Ken
王字段
(Wang Keng)
Colonel Wang Ken was born at Wu-hai Hsien, Kangsu province, in 1895. He was graduated from the Anting High School in 1910. In 1911, by competitive examinations he was admitted to the Tsinghua College, Peking, which sent him to study in the Unïted States in the summer of 1911. Upon his arrival in the United States, he entered the University of Michigan. In his second year of stay in America, he studied at Columbia University, and in his third and fourth year studied at Prince​ton University and received his B. Litt. in 1915. In the summer of the same year, he joined Westpoint as a Chinese government student, where he was graduated in 1918. Colonel Wang graduated from Princeton with honor, and at Westpoint his graduation standing ranked the 12th, although there were 140 students in his class, most of whom went to France to participate in the war. He was awarded "marks-man” for target shooting and appointed cadet sergeant during his last years of stay at Westpoint. Two other Chinese were graduated from this national military academy of the United States of America before, but Colonel Wang was the first one to get appointment of cadet sergeant on account of his high military efficiency. Owing to his excellent command of English he was chosen a member of the staff of the “Howitzer Board,” a class annual. Colonel Wang returned to China in July 1918 and was at once appointed a member of the Ministry of War. At the beginning of 1919 he was sent to Europe as a member of the Chinese Peace Delegation. He returned to China in the winter of 1919 and was appointed by General M. K. Tinn to be a member of the Chinese Aeronautic Department, Peking. In September 1921 he again joined the Ministry of War. In April 1923 he was awarded the Fourth Class Chiaho. In October 1923 he was appointed as Assistant Commander of the Government Railways Garrison under Director-General Tang Tsai-li, the post being created as an aftermath of the Lincheng Outrage.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wang Shih-cheng

Mr. S. C. Wang
王世徵字義菜
(Wang Shih-cheng)
Mr. S. C. Wang was born at Ming-hou Hsien, Fukien province, in 1873. In his young days he attended the regular Confucian school and studied in the Nanyang College in a Special Class of faculty students in 1901. He became a Metropolitan graduate in 1920 and then was admitted to the Hanlin Academy. After having made the necessary preparations at that Academy, he went to England in 1904. He studied Law at Lincoln's Inn and was admitted as a Barrister-at-Law. In 1907 he returned to China. Then he began his official career. Under the Ching Regime he was legal advisor to the Board of Communications and the Board of Navy. He was concurrently a member of the Board of Education and a compiler of the Law Bureau in the Cabinet. After the establishment of the Republic in 1912, Mr. Wang became Secretary to President Yuan Shih-kai. In that ​capacity he was the author of many of the regislative papers promulgated by Yuan Shih-kai. In March 1914 he was appointed to be concurrently a member of the Conference called by Yuan Shih-kai purposely to revise the Provisional Constitution. In May 1914 Yuan created his Advisory Council and Mr. Wang became a member of it. In 1915 he had to leave Yuan's secretariat because he was unwilling to support Yuan's monarchical movement. However, with great reluctance, he translated Dr. Goodnow's famous article advocating a limited monarchy for China qualifications. For sometime Mr. Wang lived in retirement and devoted his leisure time to writing on current topics for the press. During 1917-18 he was editor of the Kung Yen Pao, the best known daily paper at Peking at that time. He was also managing editor of the Peking Daily News, an English daily paper. In August 1918 he became a Senator of the New Parliament, created by the Anfu Ministry. At the same time he was advisor to the Cabinet and the Ministry of Communications. After the dissolution of the New Parliament in 1920, he lived in a quiet life until the spring of 1922 when he organized the Sheng Pao (Star) with several friends in Peking with himself as editor-in-chief. His literary style as displayed in the editorials of this paper is highly admired by his contemporaries and the information his paper contains every day is always first hand.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wang Kuo-chun

Mr. K. P. Wang
王國鈞字伯衡
(Wang Kuo-chun)
Mr. Kouchun Penn Wang was born at Shanghai in 1894. He attended the Pootung Middle School, the Lung Men Normal School and the Shanghai High School. In 1912 he joined the Tsinghua College, Peking. After graduation in 1915 he went to America for educational work and entered Princeton University and finished Litt. B. course there in three years. He ​specialized in political economy, and graduated with honors from the Political Science Department. From 1918 to 1919, he took an M. A. course at Columbia University, New York, in history and journalism. While at New York, he made a special study of the big newspaper plants there. In the Spring of 1919, when the Peace Conference was in session at Paris, Mr. Wang was elected to attend as the general secretary of the Chinese Patriotic Committee, a publicity organ organized through the combined effort of both Chinese students and merchants in New York. While serving in that capacity, he issued many pamphlets on questions concerning China's interests at the Conference which were widely distributed in the United States. When Mr. Wang returned to China in 1919, he joined the Shanghai Journal of Commerce. On the following year, he joined the Shun Pao, as assistant manager. Toward the end of 1920, he joined the Peking Daily News, a Chinese owned English language newspaper in Peking, as assistant editor. In Peking, he also served as the Peking correspondent for the Shun Pao of Shanghai. In 1921, Mr. Wang attended as delegate the World Press Congress, Honolulu, and from there went to Washington to attend the Disarmament Conference. In 1922 returned to China and was appointed by the Ministry of Communications to be Chief of the Division of Compilation and Translation, an office taking charge of all documents in foreign languages.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wang T'an

General Wang T'an
王坦字養怡
General Wang T'an was born at Mukden, Fengtien province, in 1886. He was graduated from the Japanese Military Cadet's Academy. Upon his return to China after graduation, General Wang was appointed a Company Commander of the Third Artillery Battalion of the Third Division of the Imperial Army. In the autumn of 1911, General Wang was promoted to be Third Class Staff Officer of the Fifth Mixed Regiment. In 1912, the First Year of the Republic, he was transferred to be Commander of the Third Battalion of the Fifth Mixed Regiment. In July 1912 he was promoted to be Chief Staff Officer of the Fifth Mixed Brigade and was made ​a Lieutenant-Colonel. In May 1913 General Wang was appointed Chief Staff Officer of the Garrison Forces of the Charhar District and was made a Colonel with the brevet rank of Major-General. In May 1914 the 10th Division was organized and General Wang was appointed a Commander of the Artillery Regiment. At the same time he was made a Major-General. General Wang in September 1918 became a Battalion Commander of the Training Regiment of the War Participation Army. In January 1919 he was promoted to be Commander of an Artillery Regiment of the Third Division of the same Army. In October 1920 General Wang was transferred to Kirin to become Commander of the Second Infantry Regiment of Second Provincial Mixed Brigade of Kirin. In September 1921 General Wang was appointed a Councillor at large of the Ministry of War, Peking. In June 1922 he became a Councillor of the Ministry. In November 1922 he was awarded the Second Class Wenhu Decoration. In December 1922 he was made a Lieutenant-General. In July 1923 General Wang was appointed to act for Vice-Minister of War and was given the Second Class Chiaho Decoration. In August 1923 he received the Second Class Tashou Paokuang Chiaho Decoration. In October 1923 he was appointed Acting Vice-Minister of War. In March 1924 General Wang was made a Chieng-chun with "Chi-Wei” as special title. In June 1924 he was appointed Vice-Minister of War, which position he is still holding.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chin Shao-ch'eng

Mr. Kungpah King
金城学伯
(Chin Shao-ch'eng)
Mr. Kungpah King was born at Nanhsun, Chekiang Province, in 1876. After having finished his Chinese education at home, he acquired his rudimentary knowlege of English at the St. Xavier's School, Shanghai. In 1901 Mr. King went to England and joined the Department of Commerce of King's College, London and finished in 1905. Upon his return to China in the same year, he was appointed Assistant Magistrate of the Mixed Court at Shanghai. In the following year he was in charge of the Trade Marks section of the Board of Commerce at Peking. Later, Mr. King was transferred to be a Judge in the Supreme Court of Justice, which ​position he held for five years. During the fourth year of his office, he was sent to Washington as Chinese delegate to attend the Prison Conference. After the conference, he investigated prison conditions and studied law proceedings in some eighteen different countries in America and Europe. Upon his return to China, he wrote a number of books embodying the results of his studies and researches. In 1912 Mr. King resigned from the Supreme Court and became the Dean of the College of Commerce of the Peking University and concurrently held the position of secretary to the Board of the Interior. About the same time he founded the first National Museum in the Chinese Capital, and was appointed its first curator. In 1914 when Hsiung Hsi-ling was director-general of the National Oil Administration, Mr. King served as resident director of the Field Office in Shensi where a number of wells were dug by the Standard Oil Company undertaking the exploitation work. In August 1918 Mr. King was elected a Member of Representative of the new or "Tuchuns" Parliament. Subsequently he was chosen as one of the three representatives to attend the International Parliamentary Conference of Commerce held in Belgium. In 1920, after the Anfu-Chihli war which resulted in the overthrow of the Anfu Faction, the Parliament was dissolved. Subsequently Mr. King was appointed a Secretary of the Cabinet which position, however, he did not hold. In May 1915 he was conferred the Second Order of Paokuang Chiaho and in January 1920 the Second Order of Tashou Chiaho. In October 1922 Mr. King received the Third Order of Wenfu. In 1922 he was appointed again to be a secretary of the Cabinet and held this position until January 1923. In March 1923 he was appointed Councillor of the Bureau of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs, which position he is today holding. Mr. King is a recognized authority on Chinese antique arts, such as paintings and porcelains and a highly accomplished artist himself.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chou Lun-yuan

Mr. L. Y. Chow
周输元学少度
(Chou Lun-yuan)
Mr. L. Y. Chow was born in Ningpo, Chekiang province, in 1890. He received his early education at the Ningpo Baptist Middle School, entering St. John's Un ersity, Shanghai, in 1907. In 1911, he went to the United States as a Boxer Indemnity student, and was graduated from Lehigh University in 1915 with a degree in mining engineering. After working in various mines in the United States, he returned to China in the fall of 1915 and joined the Ping-hsiang Colliery as assistant engineer. In 1918 he was made mining superintendent, from which position he resigned in 1921 to accept the managership of the machinery department of the Far East Trading Company in Shanghai. He subsequently went to the Fengtien Mining Administration as chief mining engineer at the Pataohao Coal Mine.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chiang Yung

Mr. Chian Yung
江庸字动雲
Mr. Chiang Yung, was born at Changtinghsien, Fukien, in 1877. He studied at Waseda University where he specialized in law and economics. In 1907, the Imperial government appointed him to conduct a mission to study the Japanese educational system. He graduated from Waseda in the autumn of the same year. Upon his return to China Mr. Chiang was engaged by the late President Yuan Shih-kai, who was then Grand Councillor, to be a teacher in the law school. Later he was transferred to the Board of Education, and later Dean of the law college. In 1908 Minister Shen had studied abroad and was given the degree of M. A. In 1910 he successfully passed the Imperial Examinations and received the degree of ​LL.D. L December 1911, two months after the outbreak of the First Revolution, Mr. Chang was appointed by Yuan Shih-kai, then Imperial Prime Minister, as a delegate representing the Ching House at the Internal Peace Conference held at Shanghai, the Chief Delegate being Mr. Tang Shao-yi. In 1912, he was invited by Minister Tsai Yuan-pei of Education to be president of the Government Law College in Peking. In August 1912 he was appointed Chief of the Metropolitan High Court. On September 16, 1913, he was appointed vice-president of the Law Codification Commission. A week later the appointment was substantiated. In August 1916 he was ordered to act for the Minister of Justice. This position he held until September 1916 when he resigned from the Vice-Ministership. On June 16, 1917 Mr. Chiang was ordered to act as Vice-Minister of Justice. From June 29 to July 17 he was Acting Minister of Justice. In July 26 1917, he was appointed Vice-Minister. In December 1917 he became Minister of Justice which position he held until the end of March 1918. Subsequently Mr. Chiang was appointed director of Chinese Education. In January 1920 Mr. Chiang was conferred the First Order of Tashou Chiaho. In July 1920 after the overthrow of the Anfu Faction, he was appointed president of the Law Codification Commission. In the beginning of 1921 he was appointed concurrently to hold the post of the president of the Commission for the Study of Jurisdiction. In February 1921 he was conferred the First Order of Tashou Paokuang Chiaho. In August 1921 he was relieved of the two concurrent posts. In 1922 Mr. Chiang was conferred the Fourth Order of Merit. In the spring of 1923 he left Peking as a protest against the mishandling of Dr. Lo Wen-kan's case on the part of a few Cabinet ministers who, according to him, had taken law into their own hands. He was officially relieved of the presidency of the Law Codification Commission in October 1923. In June 1923, Mr. Chiang founded in Peking a weekly called The Law Review, of which he himself has been the editor-in-chief. Ever since he resigned from this official post, he has been practising law in Peking. His present address is Pai-Mien-Tsao, East City, Peking.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chin Pang-cheng

Mr. P. C. King
金邦正字仲蕃
(Chin Pang-cheng)
Mr. P. C. King is a native of Anhui but he was born in Hangchow, Chekiang Province, in 1887. Between 1901 and 1902 he studied at the Nanyang Institute of Technology. From 1905 to 1908 he attended the Nankai Middle School, Tientsin, where he graduated. From 1908 to 1909 he studied at the Customs College, Peking. Mr. King successfully passed the competitive examinations conducted by the Bureau of the Educational Mission to the United States of America, and was sent to America in November 1909. He prepared himself for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and in 1910 joined Cornell University where he specialized in forestry. He received his degree of B. S. and M. F. in 1914. At Cornell he was elected to Sigma Xi in May 1914. He returned to China in October 1914, and was introduced to Mr. Han Kuo-chun, then Civil Governor of the Anhwei Province, by Professor Joseph Bailie, of the University of Nanking, and was appointed to start and take charge of the forestry work for the whole province and to conduct at the same time the Provincial Agricultural School at Anking. Later he opened a forestry de​partment in the Agriculture School, and organized the Bureau of Forestry for Anhwei. A nursery was organized and extensive reforestation in several districts of the province was planned and carried out. Mr. King left Anhui during General Chang Hsun's monarchical movement in June 1917. In the summer of 1917 he was appointed by Mr. Fan Yuan-lien, then Minister of Education, to be president of the Government Agricultural College, Peking. He held this position for three years. In August 1920 Mr. King was appointed president of the Tsing Hua College to succeed Dr. Hawk-ling Yen who was appointed secretary to the League of Nations. In January 1922 Mr. King was appointed director of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States and to be concurrently director of the Tsing Hau Students Mission. These positions he is still holding.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chin Shao-chi

Mr. Sok-tsu G King
金紹基號起初
(Chin Shao-chi)
Sho-tsu G. King, was born at Nanziang, Chekiang, in 1886. He received his early education under private tutors at home. In 1902 he went to England for higher education, in company with his two elder brothers. Upon his arrival in London, he joined King's College and specialized in electric engineering. He spent one year as an apprentice in the General Electric Company where he received practical training in electrical engineering. Mr. King returned to China in 1905. After a rest for one year, he went to North China, organized the electric department in the Technical School of the Board of Commerce at Peking, and became its first professor. At the request of Tang Wen-chih, at the time Vice-Min​ister of Commerce, he was a member of the Board of Communications. Upon Mr. Tang's retiring from official life to become President of the Nanyang College, Mr. King was transferred to that College and stayed there for four years and a half, as head of the Chemical Department. In 1911 he was transferred back to Peking and detailed for service in the Ministry of Communications. He was attached to the postal administration for some time with the rank of Junior Secretary. After the first revolution in 1911 which resulted in the establishment of the present Republic, Mr. King went to Hankow and stayed there over four years as managing director of a real estate concern called the Real Estate and Trading Company, and under him the management control property now valued at several million dollars. In 1916 he came to Peking and was engaged in general business. Some of the big commercial deals concluded in China since the war such as the organization of the Chinese national wireless company and the Vickers' contract of £1,800,000 were pushed through by Mr. King. Mr. King is in Peking acting as agent of the Vicker's Company.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chin Shao-tseng

General Chin Shao-tseng
金翻身字盆庭
General Chin Shao-tseng was born at Tientsin. His service with the Ministry of War began in the Ching Dynasty which he served as a councillor. After the establishment of the Republic. General Chin continued as a Councillor in the Ministry of War until December 1917, when he was appointed Chief of the Department of Civil Affairs and Appointments. In March 1920 be was awarded the Second Order of Paokuang Chiaho and in August was appointed Vice-Minister of War. In May 1921, General Chin was made a lieutenant-general and in May 1922 he was appointed to act for the Minister of War for a period. In October 1922 he was granted the First Order of Wenfu and in November 1922 he was made a Chiangchun of the College of ​Marshals with the special title "Shao-wei.” In September 1923 General Chin was again placed in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of War which position he held until January 1924 when General Lu Chin was appointed Minister of War. General China's present position is Vice-Minister of War.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chou Ch'i-lien

Dr. Tsur Chi-lien
周啟濂字卿
(Chow Chi-lien)
Dr. Tsur Chi-lien was born at Ningpo, Chekiang, in 1877. After graduating from St. John's University of Shanghai, he went to England ​and attended Edinburgh University and received the degree of M. A. Shortly afterwards he studied in Germany and specialized in political science and was awarded the degree of Ph. D. Upon the completion of his education in Germany Dr. Tsur returned to China and entered the government service. In 1910 he accompanied Chang Tsung-hsiang, a former Chinese Minister to Japan, to Germany to study German constitutional and municipal governments. They returned in the latter part of 1911 when the First Revolution resulting in the establishment of the present Republic commenced. After the overthrow of the Manchu Regime, a law compilation bureau was established at Peking and Dr. Tsur was appointed a councillor of it. This position he held for two years. In 1914 Dr. Tsur was appointed Third Secretary to the Chinese Legation in Japan. At the time when he was recalled to be Commissioner to Australia in charge of German and Austrian prisoners in June, 1918, he was Secretary to the Chinese Legation in Tokio. After the decision to deport enemy subjects in China to Australia was reversed, Dr. Tsur was made a member of the Foreign Office. For a while he was Acting Secretary. In 1919 Dr. Tsur was appointed Consul-General to New York. In the winter of the same year he returned to China. In June 1920 he was relieved of the New York post. In April 1922 Dr. Tsur was appointed Consul General at Ottawa, Canada, which position he is still holding. In September 1923 Dr. Tsur returned to China upon the death of his father at Shanghai.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chou P'ei-chen

Mr. Chow Pei-Chen
周佩儀
Mr. Chow Pei Chen was born in Nanzing, Chekiang, in 1883. In 1901, he passed successfully the civil examination. After the Boxer Rebellion, he took up a business career but when the reform movement spread over China, he joined Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Democratic Party. At the time of the revolution he was one of the strong advocates of the republican form of government and devoted much of his time in maintaining the peace of Kiangsu and Chekiang. In 1917, he was appointed president of the Bureau of Governmental Properties of Chekiang. He resigned his post the following year, and in 1919, organized with some prominent merchants of Shanghai the Chartered Stock & Produce Exchange, which was then a new ​enterprise in China and of which he is still one of the managing directors. The next year, he was elected a member of the committee of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. In 1923, he was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Finance of the Kuomingtang Party. He is a liberal supporter of charitable organization and public works and in politics has always been a loyal supporter of Dr. Sun. He has done much to spread the doctrine of democracy.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chin Yun-peng

General Chin Yun-peng
新雲鵬字與卿