Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chou P'ei-chen

Mr. Chow Pei-Chen

周佩儀

Mr. Chow Pei Chen was born in Nanzing, Chekiang, in 1883. In 1901, he passed successfully the civil examination. After the Boxer Rebellion, he took up a business career but when the reform movement spread over China, he joined Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Democratic Party. At the time of the revolution he was one of the strong advocates of the republican form of government and devoted much of his time in maintaining the peace of Kiangsu and Chekiang. In 1917, he was appointed president of the Bureau of Governmental Properties of Chekiang. He resigned his post the following year, and in 1919, organized with some prominent merchants of Shanghai the Chartered Stock & Produce Exchange, which was then a new enterprise in China and of which he is still one of the managing directors. The next year, he was elected a member of the committee of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. In 1923, he was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Finance of the Kuomingtang Party. He is a liberal supporter of charitable organization and public works and in politics has always been a loyal supporter of Dr. Sun. He has done much to spread the doctrine of democracy.