Background
He was born in Toishan, Kwangtung, China in 1895.
He was born in Toishan, Kwangtung, China in 1895.
Mr. Wong studied at the Canton Christain College middle school in 1910-1915. Then he attended Leland Stanford Jr. University and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1919.
After graduation Shiu-kei Wong entered business in America and was first as assistant manager of the Chung Sai Yat Pao, San Francisco, California, (the largest Chinese daily in America, of which his father was the owner). Later he joined the China Mail Steamship Company, Ltd., San Francisco, (the biggest Chinese mail line during the World War), transferred to the Hongkong office of the company as assistant agent and later associate agent until 1923.
Mr. Wong was appointed assistant manager of the Hankow branch of the National Commercial and Savings Bank in 1923. Upon the capture of Wuhan by the Nationalists in 1926, he was appointed director of the Wuhan telephone administration by Sun Fo, then Minister of Communications. When the Ministry was removed to Nanking in 1927, he was appointed to a concurrent post as chief-in-charge of the Hankow Office of the Ministry.
He also was a manager of the Hankow branch of the Central Bank of China and concurrently member of the Wuhan finance commission in charge of the financial affairs of Hupeh and Hunan.
