Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chin Shao-chi

Mr. Sok-tsu G King

金紹基號起初

(Chin Shao-chi)

Sho-tsu G. King, was born at Nanziang, Chekiang, in 1886. He received his early education under private tutors at home. In 1902 he went to England for higher education, in company with his two elder brothers. Upon his arrival in London, he joined King's College and specialized in electric engineering. He spent one year as an apprentice in the General Electric Company where he received practical training in electrical engineering. Mr. King returned to China in 1905. After a rest for one year, he went to North China, organized the electric department in the Technical School of the Board of Commerce at Peking, and became its first professor. At the request of Tang Wen-chih, at the time Vice-Minister of Commerce, he was a member of the Board of Communications. Upon Mr. Tang's retiring from official life to become President of the Nanyang College, Mr. King was transferred to that College and stayed there for four years and a half, as head of the Chemical Department. In 1911 he was transferred back to Peking and detailed for service in the Ministry of Communications. He was attached to the postal administration for some time with the rank of Junior Secretary. After the first revolution in 1911 which resulted in the establishment of the present Republic, Mr. King went to Hankow and stayed there over four years as managing director of a real estate concern called the Real Estate and Trading Company, and under him the management control property now valued at several million dollars. In 1916 he came to Peking and was engaged in general business. Some of the big commercial deals concluded in China since the war such as the organization of the Chinese national wireless company and the Vickers' contract of £1,800,000 were pushed through by Mr. King. Mr. King is in Peking acting as agent of the Vicker's Company.