Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chang Shou-ling

Mr. Chang Shou-ling

張壽齡字筱松

Mr. Chang Shou-ling was born at Changchow, Kiangsu in 1872. He is a literary man being a Metropolitan graduate of the Ching regime. When Mr. Chang was nineteen years of age, he studied the question of finances in the Chuchow Yamen of the Shantung Province. At the age of 26, Mr. Chang was appointed by the Governor of Shantung, Fu Kun, to take charge of financial affairs of the whole province. In 1895 Mr. Chang was transferred to Chihli and served under Viceroys Wang Wen-shao, Jung-lu, Yuan Shih-kai, Yang Shih-hsiang and Yu Lu successively for altogether twelve years. During that period he managed financial matters for Peiyang. In 1911, Mr. Chang was transferred by Chao Er-hsuan, then Viceroy of the Three Eastern Provinces, to be Director of the Fengtien Bureau for the management of Manchu affairs. Concurrently he held the positions of the head of the Provision and Taxation Bureau of the Three Eastern Provinces and of the Army Preparation Bureau. Upon the establishment of the Republic, Mr. Chang was appointed chief secretary to the Tutuh or Military Governor of Fengtien. In September 1913, he was appointed Chief of the Revenue Bureau of the Province of Kiangsu and also director of the Financial Department of the same Province. These positions he held until February 1914, when he was appointed Vice-Minister of Finance while President Hsu Shih-chang was Secretary of State. He resigned this position in July 1915, but was not officially relieved of it until May 1916. When the late Feng Kuo-chang was President during 1917-18, Mr. Chang was one of his High Advisors and was appointed Director-General of a Wine and Tobacco post. In October 1920 Mr. Chang was conferred the Second Order of Tashou Paokuang Chiaho. In January 1922 he was conferred the First of Tashou Paokuang Chiaho. In April 1922 Mr. Chang was ordered to assist in the organization of the proposed Wine and Tobacco Commercial Bank. Mr. Chang was one of the promoters of the Chinese-American Banking Corporation and is still a director of it.