Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chiang Shun-te
Dr. S. T. Kong
江順德字文治
(Chiang Shun-te)
Dr. S. T. Kong, was born at Paoan Hsien, Kuangtung Province, in 1380. He attended the Peiyang University Tienisin, from 1895 to 1900. The year of 1902 found him in the University of California where he studied for three years, graduating with the degree of B. S. in 1905. After that he spent two more years in the States attending Columbia University from which he got an M. A. degree in 1907. Upon returning to China, he was called to attend examination of returned students in Peking, and was conferred with a doctors degree in engineering by the Imperial Ching Government in 1909. Soon after he was engaged as mining and metallurgical engineer hy the Provincial Government of Hunan at Changeha, which position he held until 1909. In 1909-1912, he was engineer-ir-chief for the Lead and Silver Smelting Works of the Hunan government. This work was the first work started by Chinese on a scientific scale, and is still going on at present. The year following found him as Engineer-in-Chief for the Canton government where concurrently he was Co-director for the Canton Government Analytical Laboratory and Chemical Department. He was engineer-in-chief for the Tsang Shing Mau-Fung-Shan Gold Mining and Milling Company 1913-1915. After that he was. engineer-in-chief and technical manager of the Hunan Government Smelting Works which is for smelting antimony. When the great war was over, the price of antimony dropped almost to nothing. Dr. S. T. Kong proposed to the Hunan government to run the works for smelting Chinese copper cash for copper and zinc. He succeeded in turning out pure copper and zinc which played a great part in keeping down the price of foreign copper in the province. Dr. Kong is the founder of the Bright Star Company, zinc oxide, colors and paints manufacturers, and he is its manager and engineer-in-chief. It has works at Changsha, Hunan, and head-office at Hankow. Dr. Kong is also at present the president of the Board of Directors of the Dau Sung School, newly founded at Hankow. He is also the manager of the Hankow office of the National Commercial and Savings Bank of Hongkong. He is interested in the Chinese Y.M.C.A. work and is the chairman of the board of directors of the Wu-Han Y.M.C.A. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boone University, Wuchang, and member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers since 1905.
