Background
Mun-Yew Chung was born in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China, January, 1861.
Mun-Yew Chung was born in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China, January, 1861.
He graduated from Yale University with Bachelor of Arts degree.
Chung Mun-yew held the post of a secretary and interpreter of the Chinese Legation at Washington for ten years. In 1903 he was a Charge'd'Affaires of the Chinese Legation at Madrid, Spain. Between 1904 and 1905 Mr. Chung served as a Consul-General in Manila, Philippine Islands. He was an adviser on foreign affairs to Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy in Tianjin (Tientsin) in 1905.
For ten years, from 1906 to 1916 Mr. Chung worked as a managing-director of the Shanghai-Nanjing (Nanking) Railway, concurrently holding the positions of managing-director of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company (1907-1910) and that of the managing-director of the Shanghai-Hangzhou (Hangchow)-Ningbo (Ningpo) Railway (1914-1916). Chung Mun-yew took up the post of a commissioner of the Shanghai-Nanjing (Nanking) Railway board around 1917 to 1927. During this period, he also served as chairman of the National Mint Organization Committee in 1920 and counsellor to the Chinese delegation to the Washington Conference, 1921.