Members
The first meeting took place on February 15, 1913 in Beijing, with 44 delegates. The chairman was Woo; vice-chairman Wang Zhao (王照). There were two representatives per each of the 26 provinces. The Tibetans, the Mongolians and the overseas Chinese each had one representative. Prominent members included:
- Cai Zhang (蔡璋)
- Chen Suiyi (陳遂意)
- Gao Kunnan (高鯤南)
- Hu Yuren (胡雨人)
- Li Liangcai (李良材)
- Liu Zishan (劉繼善)
- Lu Zhuangzhang (盧戇章)
- Ma Tiqian (馬體乾)
- Wang Rongbao (汪榮寶)
- Wang Sui (王崔)
- Wang Yi'an (汪怡安)
- Xing Dao (邢島)
- Yang Qu (楊麴)
- Yang Zenghao (楊曾浩)
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Famous quotes containing the word members:
“In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.”
—St. Francis De Sales (1567–1622)
“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 12:12.