Background
Mr. Hin Wong was born in Honolulu, United States in 1888. His parents were Cantonese.
Mr. Hin Wong was born in Honolulu, United States in 1888. His parents were Cantonese.
Dr. Wong graduated from Oahu College, Punahou in 1907, studied at Columbia University in New York in 1910-1911 and received the degree of B. S. in Journalism from the School of Journalism, Missouri University in 1912.
Mr. Wong was for several years an active journalist in Guangzhou, correspondent of Reuters, China Weekly Review and other newspapers and news agencies in the Far Fiast. At times he also acted as correspondent of the Associated Press of America, Associated Newspapers of America, Chicago Daily News and other publications and news associations. He represented China at the World Press Congress in Hawaii in 1921 and was made one of the vice-presidents of the Congress and was Guangzhou Press representative at the Disarmament Conference in Washington 1921-1922.
In Guangzhou he was many years Editor-in-chief of the Guangzhou Times and later he founded and first edited the Guangzhou Daily News. He retired from these publications early in 1923 due to the political unrest.
From 1917 to 1920 he was Director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Guangzhou Military government. Mr. Wong was several times tried by court-martial at Guangzhou for his views and in May 1924, opportunity was taken by the Sun Yat-sen faction to place blame on Mr. Hin Wong for the erroneous report issued by Reuters that Sun Yat-sen was dead, to imprison him and banish him from Guangzhou for 10 years.
Upon the organization of the Guangzhou Municipality in 1921 he was made chief of the charity division of the Municipal Department of Education, resigning the latter part of the year. He was Boy Scout commissioner of Guangdong and honorary inspector of prisons for the Procuratorate-General of South China.
For more than four years Mr. Wong was chairman of the of the boys work committee of the Canton Y. M. C. A. (Young Men's Christian Association). Mr. Wong married Miss Chan Hon Ming of Guangzhou in 1913 and had five children.
Outside the newspaper field, Mr. Wong was interested in the educational and social welfare activities of Guangzhou. He was one time president of Guangdong College, general superintendent of the Canton Government Homes for the Blind, Aged, and Infirm and honorary inspector of prisons of the Guangdong Bureau of Justice.