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Mr. Hsu Shih-ying was born at Chiu-pu Hsien, Anhui Province, in 1872. He became a Pa Kung or Senior Licentiate in 1897. He began his official career as a member in the Law Compilation Bureau under the Board of Justice. In 1908 he became Associate Chief of the High Court of Justice for the Province of Fengtien. Some time later he was transferred to become the Judicial Commissioner of Shansi. In 1910 Mr. Hou accompanied Mr. George Hsu Chien, then a high Judicial Official in Peking, to Europe on a special mission to investigate and study judicial conditions existing in the different European countries. They were also sent to the United States to attend the Eighth Conference on Prison Reforms. In the beginning of 1912 Mr. Hsu was in the Secretariat of General Chang Hsi-luan, then Military Governor of Chihli. In May 1912 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Peking. In July 1922 he became Minister of Justice. Mr. Hsu resigned from the Ministership in September 1913. In October 1913 he was appointed Civil