Background
Foo Ping-sheung was born in Nanhai, Guangdong, China in 1895.
Foo Ping-sheung was born in Nanhai, Guangdong, China in 1895.
Mr. Foo attended St. Stephen's School, studying engineering and graduated after four years' study. Later he studied at Hong Kong University graduating with honors and was awarded the 1st class medal by London University.
Foo Ping-sheung served as a vice-engineer-in-chief of the Shanghai-Hangzhou (Hangchow)-Ningbo (Ningpo) Railway. He took up the post of a chief of the printing and engraving bureau of the Department of Administration of the Constitutional Government at Canton. Mr. Foo was an official attache to the delegation of the Canton Constitutional Government to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. From 1918 to 1920 he was appointed secretary to the late Dr. Wu Ting-fang. Between 1920 and 1922 Mr. Foo served as a Commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Kiungchow, Guangdong (Kwangtung).
He took the post of a Superintendent of Customs and Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Canton in 1922-1926. Foo Ping-sheung was a secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and later vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government (1927). In 1927 he was appointed director of Customs Administration, and around 1927 to 1928 Mr. Foo accompanied Dr. C. C. Wu to America.
Since his return to China in the autumn of 1928, he was a member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the National Government and member of the Legislative Yuan and concurrently Chairman of its Foreign Relations Committee. Foo Ping-sheung was appointed Chinese Minister to Belgium in February, 1929, but did not proceed to the post. In November, 1935 he was elected member of the Central Executive Committee of Guomindang (Kuomintang).