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Mr. Chang Nieh-yun was born at Hsin An Hsien, Kuangtung Province, in 1877. He studied English in Hongkong in the Government Central School (later the Victoria College) and finished his preparatory education in the Shanghai Public School under the principalship of the late Mr. George Lanning. Mr. Chang then studied law in the Soochow University Law School and graduated in the first class of 1899. After serving in the Chinese Customs Service and as Translator in one of the foreign consulates, the Shanghai Mercury, Universal Gazette, Sin Wan Pao and other papers, in 1902. In 1907 Mr. Chang assisted Dr. W. London and China Syndicate in 1902. In 1907 Mr. Chang assisted Dr. W. W. Yen as sub-editor of the Nanfangpao. From, 1907 he served as interpreter and translator to Mr. W. V. Drummsond, Law Officer to the