Background
Mr. Tsou was born in Soochow, Kiangsu, China (Suzhou, Jiangsu, China) in 1894.
Mr. Tsou was born in Soochow, Kiangsu, China (Suzhou, Jiangsu, China) in 1894.
An-yuan Tsou graduated from Chiao Tung University in Shanghai, China in 1919.
He was sent by the Ministry of Communications to Japan for practical training in Japanese Government Railways, and later went to England for practical training in The Southern Railway Co., and the London North Eastern Railway Co. In 1921 An-yuan Tsou joined the Ministry of Communications as an assistant in the Department of Railways.
Later Mr. Tsou held the following positions chief of the secretarial section of the Engineering Department and of the Accounting Department of the Kirin-Tunhua Railway, chief of the traffic section of the Hulai-Hailun Railway, superintendent of the general affairs department of the Kirin-Changchun Railway.
In 1928 he was transferred as head of the general affairs section under the Railway Department of the Communications Commission of the North Eastern Provinces in Mukden. Subsequently he became a head of the traffic section and acting director of the Railway Department of that Commission. In 1931 he was a representative of all the Railways in the North Eastern Provinces to the transportation conference of the Ministry of Railways.
In 1932 served as expert of the Chinese Assessor's- Office, Commission of Enquiry appointed by the League of Nations and Secretary of the Chinese Delegation to the Assembly of the League of Nations.
