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Mr. Sun Hung-i was born at Tientsin, Chihli province, in 1870. He is a well known literati and reformer and is recognized as a leader of progressive parties. After having taken high literary degrees under the Ching regime, he was elected a member of the Chihli Provincial Assembly. He gained a nation wide reputation in 1911 when he headed people's repesentation of the whole country to demand of the Ching government to start constitutional government at once. Mr. Sun had much to do with the first Revolution. After the establishment he organized the Democratic Party with headquarters at Shanghai. In 1912 he was elected a member of the First Parliament. After its dissolution by Yuan Shih-kai in January 1914, he went to Shanghai standing out as one of Yuan's strongest opponents until 1916. In June 1916 he was appointed Minister of Education in Tuan Chi-jui's Cabinet. In July 1916 he was transferred to be Minister of the Interior which post he held until November 1916. Since his retirement, Mr. Sun has been living at Shanghai working hard for the constitutional