Background
Mr. Chou was born in Nanhai, Guangdong, China in 1889.
Mr. Chou was born in Nanhai, Guangdong, China in 1889.
He received his Chinese education under private tutors at home and was early known as a scholar in Chinese literature.
Before the 1911 Revolution, Chou Chi-kang had become a devotee to the cause of the national revolution and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen and participated in the various revolutionary activities of the Guomindang (Kuomintang).
Mr. Chou visited Annam and travelled through U.S.A., preaching the "gospel of revolution" and persuading the Chinese residents to join the revolutionary movement and settled in Cuba for several years, during which time he was the central figure of the Chinese residents there and converted all of them into believing the Three Peoples' Principles.
Then he held many important positions in the Cuban branch of the Guomindang (Kuomintang) and was elected representative of the Cuban branch of Guomindang (Kuomintang) to the 2nd National Convention of the Representatives of Guomindang (Kuomintang) at Canton in 1926 and later elected member of the Central Executive Committee of the Guomindang (Kuomintang).
Chou Chi-kang was a member of the Overseas Affairs Committee of the Nationalist Government and chief of the overseas affairs department of the Central Party Headquarters and party affairs director of both the commissariat department of the Headquarters of the Nationalist Commander-in-Chief and the commissariat of the Nationalist Military Council.
Later he was a member of the Central Political Council in 1928 and he was re-elected member of the Central Executive Committee and of the Central Political Council in 1931. Mr. Chu was executive member of the Committee on Overseas Party Affairs of the Central Party Headquarters and Vice-Chairman of the Overseas Affairs Commission of the National Government since 1932.