Mr. Ching Yao-yueh
景耀月字太昭
Mr. Ching Yao-yueh was born at Jui Ch'eng Hsien, Shansi Province, in 1883. He early became a well-known scholar although he was only a Fukung-sheng, or Senior Licentiate qualified to take the Metropolitan Competitive Examinations. In 1904 he was admitted to Shansi University as the holder of a government scholarship. Later he was sent with government support to study in Japan. He studied Political Science and Law at the Tokyo Imperial University where he was graduated in 1910 with the degree of LL.B. While in Japan, Mr. Ching joined the Tungming-hui, the Revolutionary Party headed by Sun Yat-sen and the late Huang Hsing. Among the Tungminghui members, he was noted as a powerful propagandist. He edited a number of influential political papers immediately before and after the Revolution among which were the Kuo Pao of Tokyo, the Ming Hu Pao and the Ming Lieh Pao of Shanghai, the Ming Chih Pao and the Ta Kuo Ming Jih Pao of Peking, etc. After his return to China, he was for a time Professor of History to the Hsin Kung Hsueh in Shanghai and president of the Liangkiang Law University in Nanking.
