Background
He was born in Fushan, Shantung, China in 1878.
He was born in Fushan, Shantung, China in 1878.
Tao Wang worked as a secretary in the Headquarters of the Viceroy of Hunan and Kwangtung and interpreter at the Chinese Legation in Japan under the Manchu regime. Since the establishment of the Republic, he had successively served as Commissioner of Finance of Fengtien Provincial Government, magistrate of Hsi-hsien and Hsiping districts in Honan, magistrate of Peking and Miyun in Hopei, director of General Affairs Department of the Northeastern Political Affairs Commission under Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, acting Mayor of Peiping and concurrently Commissioner of Finance of Peiping Municipality, counsellor to the Peiping Municipal Government, Mayor of Tientsin, which post be resigned in the winter of 1934.
