Background
Mr. Yang was born in Shun-teh, Kwangtung, China in 1872.
Mr. Yang was born in Shun-teh, Kwangtung, China in 1872.
Kuo-shu Yang first studied in America and was later graduated from the Law School of the Mei Ji. University in Japan with Bachelor of Laws degree.
In the last years of the Mancbu regime, Kuo-shu Yang served as a prefect in Fengtien for two years. After the establishment of the Republic, he was chief secretary to the International Mixed Court of Shanghai in 1911-1916, chief secretary to the Bureau of Foreign Affairs at Shanghai in 1916-1917, legal adviser to ex-President Feng Kuo-chang in 1918, reappointed legal adviser to the Bureau of Foreign Affairs at Shanghai in 1925, member of Shanghai Chinese Bar Association and a legal practitioner in Shanghai since 1925.