Background
Mr. Wu was born in Kiating, Kiangsu, China in 1855.
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Mr. Wu was born in Kiating, Kiangsu, China in 1855.
Tsung-lien Wu studied French in the Language School of Kianernan Arsenal in Shanghai, China in 1876.
Tsung-lien Wu was an nterpreter in the Chinese Legation at London in 1885-1897 and for a while was connected with the Chinese Legation in Russia. He negotiated Belgian loan on behalf of the Lu-Han Railway (now extended as the Peipinsr-Hankow Railway) and was later appointed managing-director of the line. He was a second class secretary in the Chinese Legation in France in 1902 and was later made Charge d'Affaires in Madeira. He was the first class secretary to the Chinese Legation at Brussels and also acted as Charge d'Affaires at Vienna for one year until recalled by Yuan Shih-kai and appointed senior councillor and junior secretary of the Board of Foreign Affairs.
Upon the establishment of the Republic, he was appointed China's delegate to Italy, then he returned to China in 1914 and became Councilor of State and special commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Kirin, China in 1917. He also was Senator in the Second Parliament in 1918, and a member of French Municipal Council in Shanghai, China in 1925, as well as a member of the treaty revision committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanking, China since 1930.