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WHO'S WHO IN CHINA

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