Background
Fu Siao-en was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang, China, in 1871.
Fu Siao-en was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang, China, in 1871.
Fu Sian-en received his schooling in Shanghai, China.
Fu came to Shanghai at an early age to engage in business and became one of the formost businessmen in Shanghai. During his business career, he held the following important positions: director and general manager of the Commercial Bank of China, Ltd., director and member of the Arbitration Committee of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai, director of the Ningbo (Ningpo) Commercial Bank, Ltd., director of the Chung Hua Commercial & Savings Bank, Ltd., managing director and manager of properties of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., general manager of the Inland Steam Launch Co., manager of the C. M. Inland Engine Works, director of the Han Yeh Ping Iron & Coal Co., Ltd., chairman of the association of shareholders of the Han Yen Ping Iron & Coal Co., director of the Shanghai Native Waterworks Co., director of the Lungchang Paper Mills, director of the Wah Shing Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., director of the Tai Lai Flour Mills, director of the Credit Franco-Chinois, director of the Nicholas Tsu Engineering Works, and director of the Sino-French Navigation Co., etc.
He was ordered to be arrested by the Nanjing (Nanking) Government in 1927. The same year he took refuge in Dairen. Then Fu became a director of the Commercial Bank of China.
Fu Sian-en was active in public affairs and for a time came into close relations with Wu Pei-fu and Sun Chuan-fang. Fu Siao-en assisted Sun Chuan-fang in his war against Nationalist Revolutionary Armies in 1927 by affording him facilities of military transport by China Merchants' steamships in 1927.
