Background
Mr. Hsu was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, in 1888.
Mr. Hsu was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, in 1888.
Hsu Pei-huang received his early educatiion under private tutors. He graduated from the Preparatory Department, Imperial Polytechnic College, Shanghai, in 1909. Mr. Hsu graduated with honors from Williston Academy in 1919, Easthampton, Massachusetts. Later he graduated from S. B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, in 1914. Between 1914 and 1916 he took advanced courses in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, M.I.T.
Mr. Hsu was appointed assistant in Chemistry from 1914 to 1916. Between 1916 and 1918 he was a research chemist with the Larkin Co., Buffalo. From 1918 to 1920 Hsu Pei-huang served as a chemical engineer with the Procter and Gamble Co., Ivorydale, Ohio, from 1920 to 1921 a research chemist with Miner Laboratories, Chicago.
Hsu Pei-huang worked as a professor and dean of the Middle School, Nanyang University (Chiaotung University) in 1923-1927. He was a consulting chemist and chemical engineer. From February to May 1927 Mr. Hsu was appointed secretary-general, Shanghai Branch of the Central Political Council. When the Branch Political Council was dissolved in May, 1927, he was appointed Chief of Division, the City Government of Greater Shanghai and concurrently, director of Native Products Museum and director of the Municipal Industrial Testing and Research Laboratory (1927-1928).
He was promoted a counsellor of Mayor's office in 1928. Between 1929 and 1930 Mr. Hsu served as a senior counsellor. He was ordered to take charge of the Bureau of Education in October, 1930. From 1929 to 1930 Hsu Pei-huang took up the post of the president of Technology Club of China. From 1930 he became the president of the Nanyang Alumni Association.
Three times Mr. Hsu was appointed the president of the Chinese Engineering Society. Between 1931 and 1933 he resumed his office as a director of the the Chinese Institute of Engineers. From 1931 Hsu Pei-huang acted as the president of the Shanghai Branch - of the Chinese Institute of Engineers.
In 1934 he was appointed president of the Chinese Institute of Engineers. Also, Mr. Hsu served as a chairman of delegation of the Chinese Engineering Society to the World Power Conference and the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo from 1930. The same year he became a member of the National Congress of Commerce and Industries. Later he was a member of the Civic Center Construction Commission, City Government of Greater Shanghai. Then he was known as a commissioner of Public Utilities of Shanghai.