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Mr. Lia Ch'u-hsiang was born at Teng-tsung Hsien, Yunnan province. He was graduated from Canton Christian College. After the First Revolution Mr. Liu returned to his home where he founded the Teng-tsung Middle School with himself as the principal. In 1916 Mr. Liu was elected Member of the House of Representatives. In the House he was on the Budget Committee. After the dissolution of Parliament in 1917, he went to Canton and joined the Constitutional government headed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. In 1919 the Extraordinary Parliament in Canton resumed the Constitution drafting work. Mr. Chu took a part in this important task. During the following years Mr. Chu stayed at Cantt.n playing an important part in politics. In 1922 Mr. Liu returned to Peking where the First Parliament was again called to meet by President Li Yuan-hung. On theConstitution Drafting Committee, he suggested several drastic amendments to the original draft among which may be mentioned the suggestion of electing nine administrative directors in place of a president. When President Li was ousted in the summer lof 1923, Mr. Liu showed deep sympathy for him and left Peking with many of his friends, going to Shanghai to declare defiance of the Peking government. Mr. Liu, besides being a politician, is a poet. He has written volumes of poems which will soon be published.