Background
Wong Tsu was born in Beijing, China.
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Wong Tsu was born in Beijing, China.
At the age of 12, he was selected as a naval cadet, and at 16 he was sent to England to study naval engineering, then to the U.S. to study aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the U.S. his name is sometimes inverted to Tsu Wong, to put the family name last, as is the western custom.