Xia Tonghe ZhaungYuan of the WuXu year(1898)

Xia Tonghe (1868—1925),claimed ShiShanShanRen,whose courtesy name was YongQing and JiPing,was born in the GaoJian village of XianChang township in MaJiang county of GuiZhou province.He was the ZhuangYuan(Number One Scholar in the imperial examination)of the 24th year of Kuang Hsu(WuXu).

In the 24th year of Kuang Hsu(1898),Xia Tonghe won the first prize and became the second civil ZhaungYuan in the history of GuiZhou and also one of the only two ZhuangYuan of GuiZhou.

In the 30th year of Kuang Hsu,Xia Tonghe went to Japan to study and was the first person to study abroad as ZhaungYuan.

1904-1905,as the first class trainee of the fast department of laws and politics of Thammasat University of Janpan,Xia Tonghe studied systematically the academic knowledge of laws and politics,and he is the earliest batch abroad student who studied systemically laws and politics. The laws and politics fast class trained Wang JingWei,Zhu ZhiXing,Ju Zheng,Hu HanMing,Shen JunRu,Song JiaoRen and etc,who were active in chinese political arena.

On August in 1905, Xia Tonghe compiled the book of 'administrative law',published by BingMuHuoBan office of Tokyo,Japan,and which was the earliest book to introduce systemically the knowledge of the recent administrative law.

At the end of the 31st year of Kuang Hsu(1905), Xia Tonghe returned homeland and then took up the post of supervisor( schoolmaster) of GuangDong Laws and Politics School,which is called Zhongshan University today,through the hard recommendation of Cen ChunXuan,the governor of GuangDong and GuangXi.

1906-1912, Xia Tonghe had been serving as the supervisor for 6 years,who employed a large number of chinese back to china from Japan as teacher,such as Zhu ZhiXing,Cheng Rong and etc,most of them were the members of Tung Meng Hui,and broght the idea of the recent laws and politics for trainees.

The enlightened leadership of ZhaungYuan Xia Tonghe animated the atmosphere of the school,in his 6-year-long schoolmaster's career,he cultivated many talents with recent laws and politics idea,including many active persons in chinese political arena,such as Chen JiongMing,Zhou Lu and so on.

After Republic of China was founded in 1912, Xia Tonghe served as a member of House of Representatives,and was the earliest member of Kuomintang.Because of partisanship in the parliament,he withdrew from Kuomintang and set up CaoRan society on the 18th of May in 1913.In July in the same year,he was elected as regulation member of Constitution Drafting Committee,and later was elected as one of the 6 commissioners of the comittee.

1917-1919,he served as the director of Industry Agency of JiangXi province.In JiangXi,he had ever helped Chen GuangYuan,the warlord of JiangXi and one of the so-called three warlords of Yangtse River,and made a contribution to maintain the local peace.

He was dismissed for the ChengMen mountain mine case,the so-called first case in JiangXi parliament.

When seving as the director of Industry Agency,Xia Tonghe had ever won the 2nd-class JiaHe Medal of Grand Cordon awarded by the president.

In 1924,on the invitation of Shi TaiXu,the eminent monk,he together with the distinguished personages of all works of life,such as Liang QiChao,initiated to set up the World Buddhism United Conference.

He passed away due to illness at 57, in 1925 in BeiJing.