Background
Kwei Chung-shu was born in Kai Hsien, Sichuan, China, in 1897.
Kwei Chung-shu was born in Kai Hsien, Sichuan, China, in 1897.
Kwei Chung-shu graduated from Tsinghua College (later Tsinghua University) in 1919. In 1920 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Lawrence University, in 1921 Bachelor of Journalism degree from University of Wisconsin and Bachelor of Letters from the Comparative Law School of China in 1933.
Mr. Kwei was a Chinese and English editor of various college publications at Tsinghua University. He served as a field worker in Y.M.C.A. North China Flood Relief in 1917. Kwei Chung-shu acted as an assistant boy scout master during 1918-1919. He held the post of an English secretary of the National Students' Federation in 1919. From 1919 to 1920 Mr. Kwei worked as an associate editor, For Eastern Republic, San Francisco. In 1919 he became a representative in America, bureau of public information.
Kwei Chung-shu served as an assistant at the Hunter press bureau since 1920. The following year he acted as a reporter of the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin, in 1921. Between 1921 and 1922 he was an associate editor of the China Advocate, Washington D. C.
He contributed to The New York Times, The New York Evening Poet and other papers on and during the Washington Disarmament Conference in 1921-1922. Kwei Chung-shu was associated with exchange department, Milwaukee Journal, in 1922. Between 1922 and 1925 Kwei Chung-shu served as an editor-in-chief, The Chinese Students Monthly, New York. During 1926-1928 he held the post of a manager, Shanghai office, Government Bureau of Economic Information, and from 1927 to 1932 a managing editor, The China Critic, Shanghai.
Mr. Kwei was a Contributor to The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury since 1931. From 1932 he served as am Editor-in-Chief of the China Critic. In 1932 Kwei Chung-shu was appointed technical expert, Chinese Assessor's Office, the League Commission of Inquiry. He was also an Editor-in-Chief of China's Year Book. Later Mr. Kwei became an editorial writer of the China Press (1935).
His business connection included: assistant to treasure,. Peacock Motion Picture Corporation, New York, 1922-1925, assistant sales manager, Odean Theatre Co., Fed. Inc., U.S.A., Shanghai, 1925-1930, sales manager, Paramount Films of China, Inc., Shanghai, 1930-1932, Assistant Vice-President, American Asiatic Underwriters, Federal Inc., U.S.A. since 1932.
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