Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Yu-Pao-hsien

Mr. Yu Pao-hsien

于资軒字志昂

Mr. Yu Pao-hsien was born at Kiang-tu Hsien, Kiangsu province, in 1875. He spent his early years in Szechwan, where his father was a prefect. At first he studied Chinese under teachers of the old school, but his yearning for foreign learning was so strong that he finally went to the International Institute to study English and other subjects. Later he went to Japan for his higher education. After the Boxer trouble in 1900, Mr. Yu returned to China, and first joined the Department of Police in Peking under the Tsing Dynasty. Subsequently he was transferred to the Ministry of the Interior in recognition of his useful services. He was appointed Senior Clerk and acted concurrently as a member of the Bureau of Constitutional Reform. On the establishment of the Republic, Mr. Yu was appointed Chief of the Statistical Bureau and division Chief of the Police Department Ministry of Interior. He was later transferred to the Civil Service Department, of which he was Chief. In the first year of the Republic he was also elected an expectant member of the Senate, and became Senator in 1916 upon the restoration of Parliament, which had been previously dissolved by Yuan Shih-kai's order. Upon the second dissolution of the Parliament in 1917, Mr. Yu was appointed Secretary to the Minister of Communications. In December 1917 Mr. Yu was appointed Vice-Minister of the Interior. He became concurrently in February 1918. Chief of the Parliamental Election Bureau under the Anfu Ministry. He assisted in combating the plague which broke out in Shansi and its neighborhood in the spring of 1918. In December 1918 he was awarded the Second Class Wenfu and in May 1919 the First Class Tashou Chiaho. On June 13, 1919 he was ordered to act for the Minister of the Interior. Three days later, however, he was relieved of the Vice-Ministership and also of the post of Chief of the Election Bureau. In August 1920 he was appointed Associate Director General of the Government Economic Investigation Bureau. In July 1922 he was ordered to act as Director-General of the Bureau. In September 1923 he was appointed Special Member of the Financial Reorganization Commission.