Background
Mr. Kwong was native of Guangdong. He was born in Australia in 1897 and returned to China when twelve years old.
Mr. Kwong was native of Guangdong. He was born in Australia in 1897 and returned to China when twelve years old.
After Kwong K. L. returned to China, he took up Chinese education in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Hangzhou. He finished his secondary education at a Middle School in Hangzhou in 1914. Mr. Kwong went to the United States in the same year, first studying at Wooster College, Ohio, then transferred to Columbia, from which he was graduated in 1917. He returned to America after the Armistice and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1921 with degree of Master of Business Administration.
Mr. Kwong went to England after America joined the World War and was attached to the Canadian Forces as a Y.M.C.A. secretary. Then proceeded to France and joined the British Forces as a Y.M.C.A. secretary with the Chinese Labor Corps for twelve-months toured the world, studying conditions. On return to China in 1922, he became acting English editor of the Commercial Press during the absence of Dr. Fong Sec. and at the same time served as English secretary to the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai.
After about a year with the Commercial Press, Mr. Kwong became professor of the College of Commerce of the National Southeastern University and also of the Tzu Chi University, Taiwan. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government in 1928, when the Government was established in Nanjing, taking charge of its publicity and intelligence office in Shanghai. Kwong K. L. promoted a section chief in the Ministry in 1929. He was appointed by the Government to accompany the American Journalist Party of the Carnegie Foundation in China in 1929. Also in the same year served as a member of the delegation appointed by the Government to participate in the rendition of Weihai.
Kwong K. L. promoted chief of the personnel section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1930. The same year he was appointed Second Secretary to China's League of Nations' Office in Geneva, but did not take up the post. Mr. Kwong was appointed Chinese Consul-general in the Philippine Islands in November, 1930, which position he held until June 19, 1934, when he was transferred to be Consul-General of San Francisco. He was recalled in April of 1935 for duties at the Ministry. Then Mr. Kwong was a managing director of Nanjing Municipal Electric Power Company.