Background
Mr. Lee was born in Paoking, Hunan, China in 1904.
Mr. Lee was born in Paoking, Hunan, China in 1904.
Lee Neng-kung was educated in the College of Yale-in-China in Changsha, Hunan, China.
Then he went to Peking in 1923 where he studied law and economics at Yenching University until 1926. Afer that he left for Europe in the same year for advance education, studying international law in the Universite de Paris in 1927-1929. While in France, he was one of the members and once a chairman of the Association des Hautes Etudes Internationales. He did research work in England, Belgium and Switzerland.
Mr. Lee returned to China in 1931. He was appointed counsellor to the Headquarters of Pacification Commissioner of Jiangsu and concurrently instructor of political science in the Central Military Academy in Nanjing. He resigned from the above posts, and joined the Chinese Legation in Tokyo as an attache.