Background
Mr. Fung was born in Xinhui, Guangdong, China in 1859.
Mr. Fung was born in Xinhui, Guangdong, China in 1859.
Geng Ping-shan went to Siam at 15 and entered business. He traded for many years in Szechuan. He was elected director of the Fong Pin Hospital at Canton in 1892. During the famine of 1893, he organized the sale of cheap rice, thus saving thousands of lives. Shortly after this, Mr. Feng went to Hong Kong and carried on his philanthropic work. He was first president and later adviser to the Tung Wah Hospital.
Mr. Feng was the first president of the Po Leung permanent board. He was a member of the District Watch committee Justice of the Peace. Feng Ping-shan became a life member of the court of Hong Kong University. He established three free schools for boys and girls in Hong Kong and gave considerable sums to establish a public library in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the Confucian Middle School, the primary school of Guangdong (Kwangtung) Higher Normal School, the foundation fund of the Chinese Library at Hong Kong University and many other schools.
Mr. Feng also gave to his native district the Jeung-shan Public Garden, free schools, vocational schools, play grounds for primary schools, a science academy and the King Tong Library (named after his father). In 1924 he travelled in America and Europe studying educational methods and on his return to China he exerted his efforts to put into effect the knowledge which he had gained abroad.
Mr. Feng's hobby was the study of ancient Chinese maxims.
Feng Ping-shan had three sons and six daughters.