Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Shen Jui-Iin

Mr. Shen Jui-lin

沈瑞麟字裔

Mr. Shen Jui-lin was born at Wu-Hsing Hsien, Kiangsu province, in 1875. He is son of the late Shen Ping-cheng, Viceroy of Liang-Kiang. Mr. Shen became a provincial graduate in 1890. He began his official career as Senior Secretary of the Board of War. Subsequently he was awarded the rank of Taotai. The first position Mr. Shen held in the Diplomatic Service was Attache to the Chinese Minister to Belgium. Later he became a Commercial Attache. Still later he was promoted to be the Third Councillor. The next country Mr. Shen was sent to by the Ching government was Germany where he became Second Councillor of the Chinese Legation and also for a time Charge d'Affaires. In the winter of 1909-10 Mr. Shen was called back from Germany and appointed a Councillor at large of the Board of Foreign Affairs. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed Deputy of the Board to deal with the National Advisory Council. In August 1910 Mr. Shen was appointed Chinese Minister to Austria. In December 1913 he was reappointed by the Peking government Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria. Mr. Shen left Vienna in 1917 after China had declared war on Austria-Hungary. In January 1919 he was awarded the Second Class Wenhu and in January 1920 the Second Class Tashou Paokuang Chiabo. In September 1920 a special Commission was organized by the Peking government to study the Versailles Treaty. Mr. Shen was appointed its vice-president. In January 1922 Mr. Shen was appointed Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, holding concurrently the post of Chief-in-Charge of the Bureau for the Preparation of Participating in the Washington Conference. In March 1922 Mr. Shen was awarded the First Class Tashou Chiaho Decoration. In July 1922 he was ordered to act for the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In October 1922 he received the First Class Wen Hu Decoration. In October 1922 he received two concurrent posts, namely president of the Diplomatic and Consular Service Commission and assistant Chief of the Bureau for the Preparation of the Special Customs Tariff Revision Conference. In March 1923 Mr. Shen was delegated by the Ministry to be a Member of the Commission for the Study of Mongolian Affairs, and in May to the Commission for the Re-organization of China's Domestic and Foreign Loans. Mr. Shen has been the Vice-Minisiter of Foreign Afairs since January 1922.