Background
Mr. Wen was born in Hsining, Kwangtung, China on the 16th of January in 1887.
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Mr. Wen was born in Hsining, Kwangtung, China on the 16th of January in 1887.
Ying-Hsing Wen studied at the primary school, then at Tientsin University in 1897. After that he continued his studying at Nanyang College in Shanghai, China in 1901.
He was also a student engineer at Canton-Hankow Railway in 1903, attended Virginia Military Institute in 1909, Lexington, Virginia, U.S.A. and U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. in 1905.
Mr. Wen started his career as a military instructor at Military School in Canton, China in 1910. Then he worked as a major of 2nd division general staff in November 1910, Lt-Colonel in May 1911. After that he assisted the chief of staff, Shanghai Military Governor in February 1912 and then became the chief of staff in Shanghai Military Governor in June 1912 and colonel in February 1913, then a secretary to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, April 1913, assistant chief of staff of Military Governor of Kwangtung, China in July, 1913.
In May 1914 he began working as a junior engineer of Szechuan-Hankow Railway, continued as an engineer of Tayeh Iron Mine in December 1915. He was also a senior engineer of the Pukow commercial bureau in 1917, brigadier general in September 1920, military council of body guard brigade in Mukden, China in November 1921.
In April 1922 he moved to the police, worked as a chief chief police of the special area in Manchuria.
In May 1923 Ying-Hsing Wen was chief of business department of Shanghai Woosung Commercial Port and in May 1926 the president of Tsing Hua college.
In 1929 Mr. Wen became a secretary of the Chief Inspectorate of Salt Revenue and then a chief of preventive force. He worked as a dean of the Gerdarme and Police Department of the Central Military Academy and assistant Commander of Gendarmarie in 1931.
He finished as a commissioner of the Public Safety Bureau of Shanghai, a member of the Joint Commission. And from January 1933 he served as a Commander of the Revenue Guard.