Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Ts'ai Tseng-chi

Mr. Jun-ke Choy

蔡增基

(Ts'ai Tseng-chi)

Mr. Jun-ke Choy was born in Honolulu in 1892. He studied at McKinley High School from 1908 to 1911 after having graduated from primary schools in the Hawaii Islands. In 1911 he returned to Kuangtung, his native province, and was soon afterwards elected a member of the Provincial Assembly. Finding politics uninteresting, Mr. Choy returned to America in August of 1912 to pursue higher education. He studied political science and international law at Columbia University New York, as a Chinese government student. He received his degree of B. S. from the University in 1915 after a study of three years. During his residence in New York, Mr. Choy was elected president of the Columbia Chinese Students' Club in 1913. His interests were not only confined to student activities, as he was also a member of the New York Artillery. In June of 1915 Mr. Choy again returned to China. He was made a member of the Liangkwang military Headquarters. The following year, he was given the appointment of Director of Foreign Affairs of the military government in Kwangtung. Shortly afterwards he resigned to take up business. Mr. Choy has been a newspaper man for some time. During his visit to Peking in 1915 he was appointed assistant editor of the “Peking Post." It was at the time when Yuan Shih-kai was trying to make himself Emperor of China. Mr. Choy resigned from the “Post” and left Peking for the South, as he was against the monarchical movement. Subsequently he became vice-president of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of Hong-kong. In 1918 he raised money for the establishment of branch offices the Bank at Hankow and Tientsin. He secured over fifty thousand dollars worth of subscriptions to the total capitalization of the branch banks