Background
Mr. Yung was born in Hong Kong in 1892.
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Mr. Yung was born in Hong Kong in 1892.
Yung S. H. studied at Queen's College, Hong Kong, and in 1910 he went to Peking and entered the College of Communications.
Mr. Yung was a translator and reporter for the Associated Press, Peking, in 1911. He worked as an assistant correspondent in Peking for the Chicago Daily News in 1912. From 1914 he held the post of a reporter for Renter's agency and was transferred to Tianjin on the outbreak of the World War. He also worked on the Peking and Tianjin Times, China Illustrated Weekly and Tianjin Press. From 1917 Yung S. H. worked as a manager and editor of the Chinese Peking and Tianjin Times and held these posts until August 1928, when he sold the paper.
Yung S. H. was also correspondent for several Shanghai papers and a member of the sub-committee for China of the World Press Congress. He went to Japan in 1921 and secured the assistance of the Japanese press against the Japanese morphine traffic in China. Mr. Yung acted as a counsellor of the President's Office and the Emigration Bureau in 1921. The same year he was appointed adviser to the military governor of Zhili and the civil governor of Zhejiang Province.
From 1924 to 1925 Mr. Yung held the post of a special commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Zhili and counsellor to Tuan Chi-jui. Between 1918 and 1928 he served as a secretary to Li Yuan-hung. He was appointed high adviser of the Tianjin Municipal Government in 1927, but left soon after and came to Shanghai to become assistant manager, in charge of the night editorial department and was later made General-Manager of The China Times.