Background
Mr. Hwang was born in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China, in 1897.
Mr. Hwang was born in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China, in 1897.
He graduated from the Nanjing Government Teachers' College in 1920. While studying in Nanjing, Mr. Hwang was very active, being one of the organizers and elected first president of the Nanjing Students' Union during the Students' Movement of 1919. Hwang William P. H. went to America for advanced education in 1921, and graduated from the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering in 1922 with the degree of Master of Science in Agriculture, Master of Arts in Education from Columbia University in 1924.
Mr. Hwang pursued further studies in education, agriculture, economics and sociology at the Ohio State University, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the N. C. State College around 1924 to 1927.
Hwang William P. H. served as an expert at the Guangdong Provincial Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station between 1920 and 1921. He held the post of an acting editor-in-chief of the Young China Morning Post, a powerful revolutionary paper in San Francisco established by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and concurrently principal of the Young Woo School in S. F., in 1927-1928.
Mr. Hwang returned to China in the autumn of 1928 and was immediately appointed senior compiler (Pien Hsiu) of the Legislative Yuan. In 1930, in addition to his duty in the Legislative Yuan, he also served at times as professor and later dean of the National Central University and concurrently member of the Planning Committee and Conference of Agricultural Finance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Mining.