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Mr. Yang Tcheng was born at Tungkun Hsien, Kuangtung province, in 1867. When he was a mere youth, he was sent to Japan where his elder brother Yang Chu was then Chinese Minister. After six years' stay in Japan, he returned to China and at once joined the Tung Wen College, Canton. A year later he was transferred to the Tung College, Peking, where he was subsequently graduated. Upon graduation he was appointed a member of the Board of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce. Later he was sent by the government to Germany where he studied jurisprudence and military science in the Berlin University and was graduated from it. Mr. Yang returned to China in the spring of 1895. He then became a professor in Peking University, and also English translator at the Official