'The late Mayor Fu Sino-en was 9 years old born. in Chinghai. river port gateway to Ningpo. Like' many well known Chinese business men he was a self-taught man, having been educated only by tutors at "home.
came to Shanghai when he was less than 20 years old to work in the Shanghai Dock Company. a British orna humble beginning he had been able gradually to climb up to the position of chairman of the Shanghai District Chamber of Com= merce about 20 years ago.
He was not liked by the authorities; of the Kuomintang during General Chiang Kal-shek's famous. northern
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