Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wang Yu-lin

Mr. Wang Yu-lin

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Mr. Wang Yu-ling was born at Hangchow, Chekiang province, in 1879. He is a returned student from Japan where he studied Law in the Government Law College. After his return to China, Mr. Wang became a translator in the Eupei Agricultural Bureau. After some time he went to Peking where he first accepted the post of compiler of the Commercial Gazette in the Board of Commerce. The other positions Mr. Wang held under the Ching regime were those of Deputy-Judge of the Second Civil Department of the Supreme Court and Senior Compiler of the Law Codification Office. Mr. Wang was a Councillor of the Law Department of the Nanking Provisional government. From August to September, 1912, he was Vice-Minister of Justice. Yuan Shih-kai having dissolved the First Parliament in January 1914 created a new advisory body called Tsan-cheng Yuan in May 1914. Of this Advisory Body, Mr. Wang was appointed a Tsan Cheng or a Member. It was dissolved in June 1916 when its creator had died, and the First Parliament was reconvoked. After the second dissolution of the First Parliament in June 1917, the Peking government created a Temporary Senate whose duty it was to revise the Parliamental Election and Organization Laws. Mr. Wang was the President of the Senate which was convoked in January 1918. Based upon the revised laws, a New Parliament was called which was convoked in August 1918 and of which Mr. Wang was a Senator. It was dismissed in August 1920 after the Chihli-Anfu War. Up to that time Mr. Wang had been the editor-in-chief of the Kung Yen Pao, the journalistic organ of the Anfu Party. Mr. Wang was one of the northern delegates to the internal peace conference held at Shanghai in February 1919. Since 1921 Mr. Wang has been a legal practitioner in Peking and also the President of the Chao Yang University, Peking, of which he was the founder.