Background
Mr. Hsu was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, in 1892.
Mr. Hsu was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, in 1892.
Hsu Mo received his early Chinese education at home and finished his middle school in Shanghai. He entered the law department of the Tianjin University in Tianjin in 1912 and graduated with Bachelor of Laws degree in 1916. Mr, Hsu was awarded by the Ministry of Justice of the Peking Government a certificate for exemption from judge's examinations in 1919. He passed the diplomatic and consular service examinations with honor the same year. He studied law and political science at George Washington University and graduated with Master of Laws degree in 1922.
Mr. Hsu taught English and law at the Yangzhou Middle School, Jiangsu from 1917 to 1918. He served as an attache to the Chinese Legation at Washington and in the meantime, secretary to the Chinese Delegation to the Washington Conference in 1920-1922. Upon his return to China in 1922, he was appointed professor of law and political science of Nankai University at Tianjin and continued to hold that position up to 1926. From 1925 till 1926 Hsu Mo was also dean of the college of arts of the same University. He became a member of the Chinese Bar Association at Tianjin in 1926 and at the same time acted as the chief editor of the Yi Shih Poo (Social Welfare), Tianjin.
Mr. Hsu came to Shanghai in the latter part of 1926 and was appointed judge of the Shanghai Provisional Court since 1927. Im 1917 he held the post of the president of the district Court of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. From 1928 Hsu Mo served as a Counsellor and Director of the International Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the period of 1928-1931 Mr. Hsu took up the position of a director of the European-American Department of the same Ministry and concurrently of a director of the Asiatic Department (1931). Also concurrently he was a commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Jiangsu, Shanghai, from 1929. Since 1932 Hsu Mo was appointed administrative Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs. Then he became a political Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (1932).