Background
Mr. Ho was born in Kinhwa, Zhejiang, China, October 18, 1880.
Mr. Ho was born in Kinhwa, Zhejiang, China, October 18, 1880.
He received early education from his father. Mt. Ho passed the first examination under the Manchu regime, receiving the degree of "hsiu ts'ai" in 1903 and began modern education in 1904. Ho Ping-sung graduated from the Provincial College of Zhejiang (Chekiang) with first prize in 1912. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, U.S.A., on a Government scholarship between 1912 and 1915, graduating with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1915 with honor and serving as a student assistant instructor in the Political Science Department of the same University during his senior year. Ho Ping-sung also did research work in the Graduate School of Princeton University in 1915, receiving Master of Arts degree in 1916.
After returning to China, he served successively as secretary to the Civil Governor of Zhejiang (Chekiang) and provincial educational inspector from 1916 to 1917. Mr. Ho was a professor of history at the National University of Beijing (Peking) and dean of the English as well as the history and geography departments of Beijing (Peking) Higher Normal School in 1917-1922.
Ho Ping-sung worked as a principal of the First Normal School and the First Middle School of Zhejiang (Chekiang) between 1922 and 1924. He also was an editor of the Commercial Press, Ltd., Shanghai, during 1924-1929. From 1929 to 1932 he was appointed editor-in-chief and assistant librarian of the Oriental Library.
After the destruction of the Company and the Library by Japanese bombing in 1932, he participated in the work of reconstruction, and became thereafter chief secretary to the management and concurrently chairman of industrial relations committee, And since 1934 was an assistant manager, taking charge of the re-organized Editorial Department as assistant editor-in-chief as well as editor of the monthly, Educational Review, and continuing meanwhile to hold the chief secretaryship and chairmanship. In June 1935 Ho Ping-sung was appointed President of the National Chinan University in Shanghai.