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Dr. Wang Chung-hui was born at Canton, Kuangtung province, in 1882. He studied at the Peiyang University, Tientsin, between 1895 and 1900. During the Boxer rising, he went to Japan to study political affairs. Upon his completion of the study, he went to America to pursue a higher education. In 1904 he received his D. C. L. degree from Yale University. While in America, Dr. Wang translated the German Civil Code into English and acted as co-editor of the "Journal of the American Bar Association.” In 1905 he studied jurisprudence and international law in England, France and Germany. In the course of his post-graduate work, he was called to the English Bar at the Inner Temple. In 1907 he was appointed by the Chinese government as assistant to Lu Cheng-hsiang, China's representative to the Second Hague Conference. In the first revolution in 1911, Kuangtung elected Dr. Wang as its representative to attend the conference at Nanking for the discussion of the form of government for China. Later he was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Nanking Provisional government. In March 1912 Dr. Wang was appointed first Minister of Justice of the newly formed republican government at Peking. In July