Yang, Pao-Ling.-Born in Soochow, 1887. Married, 1914. Studied at Anglo-Chinese College, Shanghai, 1895-96; at Anglo-Chinese College, Soochow, 1896-1901; at Soochow University, Soochow, 1901-5. Teacher in Arithmetic, Cheng-Chih School, Chinkiang, 1906. Arrived in America, October, 1907. Government support. Studied Civil Engineering at Cornell University, 1907-9; at Purdue University, 1909-11. C.E., 1911. President, Cosmopolitan Club. Member, Purdue Institute of Civil Engineers, and Secretary, Jeffersonian Club, 1910-11. Returned to China, September, 1911. Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Wuchang, 1911. Surveyor of the Hawi River and the Grand Canal, 1912. Dean of the Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Technology, Changsha, 1913. Technical Expert, National Conservancy Bureau, Peking, 1914 to date. Member, Chinese Institute of Engineers.