Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wu Chi-sun

Mr. Wu Chi-sun

吳笈孫字世緗

Mr. Wu Chi-sun was born at Ku-shih Hsien, Honan province, in 1876. His family has been well known for many generations through the literary attainments of some of its menibers and their occupation of important official positions. Mr. Wu himself is also a scholar. When his father was an official in Peking, he moved his home from Honan to Chihli and settled at Paotingfu. This family and the family of the late President Hsu Shih-chang have been on the most intimate terms for almost half a century. In 1905 when Hsu Shih-chang became President of the Board of Civil Administration, Mr. Wu was appointed a Second Class Secretary of the Board. In May 1907 he accompanied Hsu Shih-chang to Mukden when the latter had been appointed Viceroy of Manchuria. He became Viceroy's private secretary in charge of secret documents. This post he held until March 1909 when Hsu was transferred to Peking becoming President of Board of Communications. Hsu Shih-chang upon becoming concurrently Director-General of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway in August 1909 appointed Mr. Wu a councillor. After the establishment of the Republic in 1912, he retired together with his chief. In May 1914, Hsu Shih-chang was appointed Secretary of State when Yuan Shih-kai changed the cabinet system of government into presidential system. Mr. Wu was made Chief of the Administrative Department in the Cabinet Office. In May 1916 he was appointed Director of the Government Printing and Engraving Bureau, of the Cabinet. Later he was made Chief of the Department of Important Documents in the Cabinet under Marshal Tuan Chi-jui. In October 1916 he was awarded the Second Class Chiaho. From September 1918 to May 1922 he was Chief Secretary to President Hsu Shih-chang. He was awarded the First Class Tashou Chiaho in December 1919; First Class Wenfu in January 1920; and the Second Class Tashou Packuang Chiaho in March 1922.