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Mr. Yang was born in Chekiang, China in 1891.
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Yung-ching Yang
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also known as
Y. C. Yang
Education
Yung-ching Yang graduated from Soochow University in 1910, went to Peking and attended Tsinghua College, from which he was graduated. He taught in Soochow University in 1913-1914, went to America in 1914 and entered the graduate school of Wisconsin University, majoring in political science and public education.
Later he was transferred to George Washington University to study International Law and Diplomacy, receiving his Master of Arts degree upon graduation. Then he entered the Law School of the same University and was graduated with Bachelor of Laws degree in 1918.
Career
Yung-ching Yang was appointed Chinese delegate to the Panama Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco and served as assistant director of the Chinese exhibits. He was president of the Chinese Students Conference in America in 1917 and editor for one year of the Chinese Students Monthly. He also joined the Chinese Legation in Washington as private secretary to Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo in 1916 and served as a member of the Committee of the International Labor Conference held at Washington in 1919. He served as attache to the Chinese Legation in London and secretary to the Chinese Delegation at the first session of the Assembly of the League of Nations. He was secretary to the Chinese Delegation at the Washington Conference in 1921-1922. He returned to China in 1922, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a member of the Treaty Department and later also member of the press bureau.
He also served on various commissions in the Ministry, including the Commission sent to Shanghai to investigate the May 30th Incident of 1925. He was assistant director of conference affairs at the Tariff Revision Conference held in Peking in 1925 and was appointed Consul-General in London in 1926, but was transferred back to Peking to become secretary to the Director-Gen. of the Salt Administration. He was President of Soochow University since October 1927. Then he went to America to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws conferred by Southern University in 1930 and returned to China in the autumn to resume his duties at Soochow University.
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1910
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1914
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1918
George Washington University , International Law and Diplomacy , Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws Washington, United States