Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chiang Yung

Mr. Chian Yung

江庸字动雲

Mr. Chiang Yung, was born at Changtinghsien, Fukien, in 1877. He studied at Waseda University where he specialized in law and economics. In 1907, the Imperial government appointed him to conduct a mission to study the Japanese educational system. He graduated from Waseda in the autumn of the same year. Upon his return to China Mr. Chiang was engaged by the late President Yuan Shih-kai, who was then Grand Councillor, to be a teacher in the law school. Later he was transferred to the Board of Education, and later Dean of the law college. In 1908 Minister Shen had studied abroad and was given the degree of M. A. In 1910 he successfully passed the Imperial Examinations and received the degree of LL.D. L December 1911, two months after the outbreak of the First Revolution, Mr. Chang was appointed by Yuan Shih-kai, then Imperial Prime Minister, as a delegate representing the Ching House at the Internal Peace Conference held at Shanghai, the Chief Delegate being Mr. Tang Shao-yi. In 1912, he was invited by Minister Tsai Yuan-pei of Education to be president of the Government Law College in Peking. In August 1912 he was appointed Chief of the Metropolitan High Court. On September 16, 1913, he was appointed vice-president of the Law Codification Commission. A week later the appointment was substantiated. In August 1916 he was ordered to act for the Minister of Justice. This position he held until September 1916 when he resigned from the Vice-Ministership. On June 16, 1917 Mr. Chiang was ordered to act as Vice-Minister of Justice. From June 29 to July 17 he was Acting Minister of Justice. In July 26 1917, he was appointed Vice-Minister. In December 1917 he became Minister of Justice which position he held until the end of March 1918. Subsequently Mr. Chiang was appointed director of Chinese Education. In January 1920 Mr. Chiang was conferred the First Order of Tashou Chiaho. In July 1920 after the overthrow of the Anfu Faction, he was appointed president of the Law Codification Commission. In the beginning of 1921 he was appointed concurrently to hold the post of the president of the Commission for the Study of Jurisdiction. In February 1921 he was conferred the First Order of Tashou Paokuang Chiaho. In August 1921 he was relieved of the two concurrent posts. In 1922 Mr. Chiang was conferred the Fourth Order of Merit. In the spring of 1923 he left Peking as a protest against the mishandling of Dr. Lo Wen-kan's case on the part of a few Cabinet ministers who, according to him, had taken law into their own hands. He was officially relieved of the presidency of the Law Codification Commission in October 1923. In June 1923, Mr. Chiang founded in Peking a weekly called The Law Review, of which he himself has been the editor-in-chief. Ever since he resigned from this official post, he has been practising law in Peking. His present address is Pai-Mien-Tsao, East City, Peking.