Background
Miss Grace Chun was born in Hong kong in 1884. She was a daughter of Chun Chiu-tung, the shipping manager of China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, Shanghai.
Miss Grace Chun was born in Hong kong in 1884. She was a daughter of Chun Chiu-tung, the shipping manager of China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, Shanghai.
Chen Hung-pi received her early education from a pupil of the late Kang Yu-wei and later studied at the McTyeire School and St. Joseph's Institution, Shanghai.
Miss Grace Chun joined the staff of a monthly magazine in 1906. She taught in the Girls' High School and the Yu-Hsin Girls' School in Shanghai, since 1907. Meanwhile, she served also as a correspondent for a leading newspaper in Canton.
Chen Hung-pi joined the editorial staff of the Great China Times in 1912 (which contributed toward the overthrow of the Ching Dynasty and the establishment of the Chinese Republic). In the same year, she founded the Cantonese kindergarten in Shanghai which was later developed into the Cantonese elementary school.
She served as a dean of the Shenchow Girls' School in 1913. Chen Hung-pi held the post of an editor of the Women's weekly section of the Eastern Times, Shanghai. She was a principal of the Cantonese girls' school, Shanghai, since 1921. When the Cantonese girls' school and the Cantonese elementary school were amalgamated under the new name of Kwangtung School of Shanghai in 1925, Miss Grace Chun was elected principal of the new school. She also was an author of a several books, published by the Commercial Press.