Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Ho Chieh-ts'ai

Mr. G. Zay Wood

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(Ho Chieh-ts'ai)

Mr. G. Zay Wood, popularly known in Peking as "General Wood,” was born at Tsa-Bridge, Shanghai, August 27, 1895. He received his preliminary education in the Sung-kiang Middle School and the Nanyang Middle School. After his graduation from Nanyang in 1913, he went to Tsinghua College, where he remained but two years before he was sent by the government to the United States for advanced reducation. In 1915 he entered Yale as a Junior. He was awarded the "Charles Washburn Clark Prize," during his senior year for his essay on "The Diplomatic and Consular Service of the United States as Compared with that of the European Countries.” In 1917, after his graduation from Yale, he entered Harvard to take his post-graduate work. Political science was the subject of his special study. He took his Master Degree in one year. In 1918, he studied international law at Columbia University. He was appointed by the University in the following year “Curtis Fellow in International Law" and was reappointed in 1920. During his student days, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Students' Monthly and of the Far Eastern Republic. He was twice elected president of the Chinese Political Science Association. Besides, he was a frequent contributor to the American newspapers and magazines. In 1921, he was asked by Dr. Sao-ke Alfred Sze, the Chinese Minister at Washington, to be temporarily attached to the Chinese Legation there. Later he joined the Chinese delegation to the Washington Conference. He served as an assistant in the Press Bureau attached to the Chinese delegation. In 1922 he returned to China. Upon his arrival in Peking, he was invited to take charge of the Peking Daily News as its chief editor. In the meantime, he was appointed secretary to the Commission on National Financial Conference. In 1923, at the end of January, he 'left the Peking Daily News to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as its secretary. In June of the same year, he was appointed Secretary to the Cabinet. Mr. Wood is the author of many books, the best known of which include, The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, The Twenty-One Demands, The Chino-Japanese Treaties, The Shantung Question, A Study in Diplomacy and World Politics. He is also the author of China and Japan, a booklet of about 100 pages privately printed for distribution. Mr. Wood is now the editor and publisher of the Evening World of Peking, which is said to be the "only foreign language evening paper in China that is published every day in the year."