Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Yeh Hung-chi

Mr. H. T. Yeh

葉鴻楼字幕橘

(Yeh Hung-chi)

Mr. H. T. Yeh was born at Shanghai, in 1885. He was graduated from the Lung-meng Normal College, Shanghai. Later he studied at the highest government institutions of learning in Kiangsu where he specialized in literature. In 1912, Mr. Yeh was appointed a member of the secretariat of the Judicial Yamen at Shanghai. A few months later, he became a member of general affaire department of the temporary headquarters of the Civil Governor of Kiangsu. Upon the organization of a district legislature at Shanghai he became its chief secretary. In April 1913, he became a secretary of the Senate in Peking. In March 1914, he was appointed by Mandate to be secretary of the office created by Yuan Shih-kai to revise the Provisional Constitution. In April 1915 upon the termination of the work of the Council, he was recommended by Chief Secretary Ku Ao for the official rank of magistrate. The recommendation was approved by the government, and permission was granted of exempting him from the examination for magistrates. In August 1915, he was referred by the Ministry of the Interior to Hupeh for appointment. In May of 1916, he was appointed secretary of the Constitution Conference in Peking. One year later, upon the closing of the Constitution Conference, the Civil Governor of Hupeh requested that Mr. Yeh be sent his province to wait for appointment as magistrate. Before the request had been granted, Mr. Yeh was ordered by the Ministry of Communications in the autumn of 1917 to be managing director of the Government Telephone Administration in the Chinese City, Shanghai. This post he held for over three years. After then he was transferred to Tsingtau.