Background
Yu-chun Tseng was born in Foochow, Fukien, China (Fuzhou, Fujian, China) in 1879.
Yu-chun Tseng was born in Foochow, Fukien, China (Fuzhou, Fujian, China) in 1879.
Yu-chun Tseng took positions of managing-director of the Peking-Hankow Railway in 1916-17, member of the provisional Senate in Peking, China in 1918, vice-Minister of Communications and Director-General of Government Railways in 1918, concurrently Director-General of the Canton-Szecbuen Railway in 1919.
In 1919 he became a Minister of Communications following the resignation of Tsao Jui-lin. When the Anfu Cabinet fell in July, 1920 he was ordered to be arrested but fled to the Japanese Legation in Peking until October, 1922 when he escaped. In 1928 Mr. Tseng was pardoned and went into retirement in Tientsin, China.