Background
Kai-sheng Wu was born in Ishing, Kiangsu, China (Jiangsu, China) in 1900.
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Kai-sheng Wu was born in Ishing, Kiangsu, China (Jiangsu, China) in 1900.
Kai-sheng Woo graduated from the College of Arts, Hardoon University, Shanghai in 1922, then studied law and political science in France between 1922-1926.
He received his degree of Doctor of Laws from Lyons University. His doctoral thesis, subsequently published as a book, was entitled “The Chinese Constitutional Problem”.
While studying in France, he acted concurrently as the correspondent of Shun Pao, Shanghai, and Sin Kuo Min Pao, Singapore. After returning to China in 1926, he became the first Chinese lawyer admitted to practice in the French Mixed Court. He also acted as legal adviser to many public and private organizations, was a member of the Chinese Committee for the Reconstitution of the French Mixed Court, one of the directors of the Chinese Ratepayers Association, Shanghai. In 1928, he was appointed Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Wu was member on the Sino-French and Sino- Italian Nanking Claims Commissions. Later, he became legal adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1929 Mr.Kai-sheng was appointed director of the Permanent Office of the Chinese Delegation to the League of Nations, with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary and concurrently Charge Affaires of the Chinese Legation in Switzerland, was a member of the Special Committee for the Amendment of the Covenant of the League of Nations. He delegated to the 59th Session of the Council of the League of Nations to participate in the discussion of problems of hygiene and opium and was China's delegate to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Sessions of the International Labor Conference.
In 1930 and later Mr. Kai-sheng served as a Chief plenipotentiary to the 11th Assembly of the Leagne of Nations. During his several years of residence in Europe he represented China on many occasions at the International Labor Conference, like the Opium Conference and the Disarmament Conference, summoned back by the National Government to report on conditions in Europe and resigned his posts. He was also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
After that he practised law in Shanghai and served concurrently as a supervisory member of the Shanghai Chinese Bar Association.
Moreover he wrote a book "The Diplomatic Policy of the Chinese Government”.
