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Mr. Kuo Tse-yun is from the Province of Fukien. He was, however, born in 1882 at Taichow, Chekiang, where his grandfather was Prefect. Mr. Kuo was educated his boyhood under private tutors. In 1899 he entered the Peking Government University where he spent only one year. In 1900, he had again to study under private tutors on account of the Boxer Uprising. In 1902 Mr. Kuo successfully passed the Metropolitan examinations held in Peking and became a Hanlin or Metropolitan graduate. He thus got his high literary honor at the comparatively young age of twenty. After spending nearly two years in the Hanlin Academy, Mr. Kuo went to Japan in 1905 to pursue higher studies. He joined Waseda University where he studied political science and economics. Upon his return to China in 1907, he was appointed secretary in Manchuria, to Viceroy Hsu Shih-chang, and remained there for two years. In 1909 Mr. Kuo was appointed by the government to be Customs Taotai at Wanchow, and Chuchow,