Background
Mr. Chu was born in Kwangchih district, Hebei, China, in 1876.
Mr. Chu was born in Kwangchih district, Hebei, China, in 1876.
After having received his Chinese classical education in China, Chu Cheng went to Japan where he graduated from the Japanese Law College at Tokyo and joined the Tongmenghui (Tungmenghui), predecessor of the Kuomintang Party, while studying in Japan.
After graduation, he first served as an editor of the Chun Hsin Daily News in Singapore and soon proceeded to Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma), where Mr. Chu founded and became chief editor of the Kwang Hua Daily News. He was engaged in revolutionary activities in the Yangtze (Yangtsze) Provinces after return to China.
Chu Cheng organized a Revolutionary Army in Wuchang and Hankow, when he responded to the Revolutionary Uprising at Canton that spring and after the outbreak of the Revolution in Wuhan Cities. Chu Cheng was appointed a secretary of the Military Government at Wuchang and was shortly elected representative of Hebei (Hupeh) province to Nanking to organise the Nanking Provisional Government, of which he was appointed vice-Minister and acting Minister of Interior upon its establishment at Nanking in 1912.
In 1913 he was elected member of the Senate of the Parliament at Peking (Beijing) and became Commander of Woosung Forts upon the outbreak of the Second Revolution against Yuan Shih-kai who betrayed the country and attempted to become Emperor of China.
Mr. Chu was a director of party affairs of the Chun Hua Revolutionary Party in 1914-1918 and Commander-in-Chief of the Northeastern Revolutionary Forces in 1916. He was a vice-Minister of Interior in the Headquarters of the Generalissimo and member of the Constitution Drafting Committee in 1917.
Chu Cheng took up the post of a director of administrative affairs of the Kuomintang Party between 1919 and 1922. He worked as a councillor to the Office of the President, Canton Revolutionary Government in 1921. The same year he became a Minister of Interior, Canton Revolutionary Government. From 1923 Mr. Chu was appointed councillor of the Kuomintang Party.
In 1924 he became a member of Central Executive Committee of Kuomintang. Since 1927 Chu Cheng served as a state councillor of National Government. Mr. Chu was a member of C.E.C. of Kuomintang and concurrently member of the Standing Committes of the C.E.C.
Since 1932 Chu Cheng became a member of the Central Political Council, President of the Judicial Yuan and concurrently President of Supreme Court. He resumed his office as a Minister of Justice in 1934.