Mr. Wang Yu-lan was born at Hsing-Kuo Hsien, Kiangsi province, in 1887. He was graduated in law from the Central University of Japan. Mr. Wang returned to China when the First Revolution had just broken out. At once he joined the revolutionary activities in the Yangtze Valley as he had been a member of the Tung Men Hui for many years. Mr. Wang represented Kiangsi province in the Union of Military Governments of Provinces, first at Wuchang and later at Nanking. This Union drafted the Organic Laws of the Provisional government which elected Dr. Sun Yat-sen as Provisional President. Mr. Wang was elected a Member of the Provisional National Assembly convoked at Nanking in January 1912. It was this assembly which elected Yuan Shih-kai to succeed Sun Yat-sen and also drafted the Provisional Constitution. Mr. Wang, however, resigned shortly afterwards and returned to kiangsi. In 1912 Mr. Wang was Director of Civil Affairs and also of Communications in Kiangsi Province. In the winter of the same year he was elected a Member of the Lower House of the First Parliament which was convoked in Peking in April 1913 and dissolved in January 1914. Owing to his participating in the Second Revolution of 1913 waged by Kuo Ming Tang leaders against Yuan Shih-kai, Mr. Wang had to take flight when the Revolution collapsed. He went to Europe to study political conditions in the different countries. In 1915 Mr. Wang went to the South Sea Islands. There, with other Kuo Ming Tang members he organized a group to devise ways and means to raise a revolt against Yuan Shih-kai; but shortly afterwards he was arrested at Singapore by the local authorities because he was sending code cables to Yunan and Kueichow violating the martial laws which were in force owing to the World War. Early in 1916 the Singapore government released Mr. Wang. At once he returned to China and accepted a councillorship in the military government at Shao-Ching, the headquarters of the Third Revolution led by the late General Tsai Ao against Yuan Shih-kai's monarchical attempt. At the same time he was Taoyin of the Lin-Nan Circuit, Kuangtung province. Mr. Wang went to Peking in August 1916 when the First Parliament was reconvoked. After the second dissolution of Parliament which occurred in June 1917, Mr. Wang accompanied other M.P.'s to Canton where an Extraordinary Parliament was convoked in August 1917. In 1919 Mr. Wang was Director-General of the Municipal Administration of Yunnan province. In 1920 he was Chief of the Administration Department of the Canton Military governments. The First Parliament was for the second time reconvoked in Peking in August 1922. Mr. Wang took his seat in the Lower House. He remained in Peking until the summer of 1923 when he joined the Southern government again. Mr. Wang received the Second Class Tashou Chiaho in October 1922, the Second Class Wenhu in January 1923; and the First Class Wenfu in April 1923.
