Background
Mr. Ma Soo was born in 1833 at Shanghai.
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Mr. Ma Soo was born in 1833 at Shanghai.
Mr. Ma Soo first studied in the regular Confucian school and then attended St. Joseph’s College at Hongkong where he stayed until he had passed the examination for the Oxford senior.
Mr. Ma Soo went to Canton (Guangzhou) to teach and after staying there for a while returned to Shanghai to became Professor of History at the Nanyang College. He taught at that College for two years.
He joined Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1911 as his private secretary at Shanghai. He took part in the attack on the Kiangnan Arsenal with Chen Chi-mei during the First Revolution. After the revolution he accompanied Dr. Sun Yat-sen to Nanking in the capacity of English Secretary. In 1912 he started the "China Republican" an English daily paper at Shanghai. The paper was closed by the authorities of the French Concession on November 6, 1913 on account of its extreme views on politics.
While studying in New York Mr. Ma Soo lectured on Chinese arts. He was also at the head of the Kuo Ming Tang in America, Canada and Mexico. Shortly before returning to China in August 1920 he held a Kuo Ming Tang Conference in Philadephia which was attended by delegates from all over the United States.
At the Washington Conference in 1921-1922, Mr. Ma Soo served as a special delegate appointed by the Kuomingtang in South China, and maintained an office in Washington during the course of the Conference where he exercised considerable influence on course of events at that meeting.
Mr. Ma Soo also edited a magazine devoted to Chinese interests in New York known as the "China Review" which had a considerable circulation both among Chinese and Americans interested in China.
In the fall of 1924 he returned to China and delivered a number of addresses in opposition to the radical elements which were trying to swing the Kuomingtang party in favor of communism.
