Background
Mr. Yang was born in Shanghai, China in 1900.
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government official newspaper director
Mr. Yang was born in Shanghai, China in 1900.
After finishing Tsing Hua College, Kuang-sheng Yang entered Colorado College, Colorado Springs, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921. Then he went to Princeton University from which he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1924 in international law and political science.
Kuang-sheng Yang was student attache to the Chinese delegation at the Washington Conference in 1921-1922, editor-in-chief of the "Chinese Students Monthly" and chairman of the eastern section of the Chinese Student Alliance in 1923-1924, fellow in the department of politics at Princeton in 1922-1924, third secretary of the Chinese Legation at Washington in 1924-1927, secretary and expert of the Chinese Delegation to the International Opium Conference at Geneva in 1924-1925, professor of Chinese at Gorgetown University in 1926-1927 and was also appointed by the American University at Washington, D.C. as lecturer on Far Eastern History.
Upon return to China he became professor of political science and international law at Tsing Hua University. In February, 1928 he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government at Nanking. In 1928, he became assistant director of the intelligence and publicity department of the Ministry. He was also appointed Chinese Commissioner on the Sino-American, the Sino-Italian, and the Sino-British Mixed Nanking Claims Commissions in 1928-1929 and concurrently administrative director of the foreign relations commission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1929-1930. In February 1930, Mr. Yang was appointed special commissioner to Europe. In March 1931, he was appointed Consul-General in London, was a member of the Chinese Delegation to the Extraordinary Session of the League of Nations in 1931-1933, counsellor of the Chinese Delegation to the World Economic Conference in London in 1933, Special Inspector of Foreign Affairs for the Provinces of Szechuen, Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi, and Anhwei stationed at Hankow in 1934-1935. Then he became Managing Director of "The China Press".
