Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Huang Hsien-chao

Mr. Hin Wong

黃憲昭

(Huang Hsien-chao)

Mr. Hin Wong was born in Honolulu in 1888, of Cantonese parents. He graduated from Oahu College, Punahou. in 1907, studied at Columbia University in New York, 1910-11, and received the degree of B. S. in Journalism from the School of Journalism, Missouri University, in 1912. Mr. Wong was for several years an active journalist in Canton, correspondent of Reuters, China Weekly Review, and other newspapers and news agencies in the Far East. At times he has also acted as correspondent of the Associated Press of America, Associated Newspapers of America, Chicago Daily News, and other publications and news associations. He represented China at the World Press Congress in Hawaii in 1921 and was made one of the vice-presidents of the Congress and was Canton Press representative at the Disarmament Conference in Washington 1921-22. In Canton he was many years editor-in-chief of the Canton Times and later he founded and first edited the Canton Daily News. He retired from these publications early in 1923 due to the political unrest. From 1917 to 1920 he was Director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Canton Military government. Mr. Wong has been several times tried by court-martial at Canton for his views and in May 1924, opportunity was taken by the Sun Yat-sen faction to place blame on Mr. Hin Wong for the erroneous report issued by Reuters that Sun Yat-sen was dead, to imprison him and banish him from Canton for 10 years. Outside the newspaper field, Mr. Wong is interested in the educational and social welfare activities of Canton. He was one time president of Kwangtung College, general superintendent of the Canton Government Homes for the Blind, Aged, and Infirm, and honorary inspector of prisons of the Kwangtung Bureau of Justice. Upon the organization of the Canton Municipality in 1921 he was made chief of the charity division of the Municipal Department of Education, resigning the latter part of the year. He was Boy Scout commissioner of Kwangtung and honorary inspector of prisons for the Procuratorate-General of South China. For more than four years Mr. Wong was chairman of the of the boys work committee of the Canton Y. M. C. A. Mr. Wong married Miss Chan Hon Ming of Canton in 1913, and has five children.