John Ching Hsiung Wu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Ching Hsiung Wu

Chinese poet

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1899

Place of Birth: Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1986

Profession: judge, poet, diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Aries

John Ching Hsiung Wu (also John C.H.
Wu; Traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Wu Jingxiong) (born 28 March 1899, Ningbo – 6 February 1986) was a Chinese jurist and author.
He wrote works in Chinese, English, French, and German on Christian spirituality, Chinese literature (including a translation of the Tao Te Ching) and on legal topics.
A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he was the principal author of the constitution of the Republic of China.
He maintained a correspondence with U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
and later produced scholarly work examining Holmes' legal thought.
Previously a Methodist, he was a convert to Roman Catholicism after reading Thérèse of Lisieux's biography.
Wu served as an adviser in the Chinese delegation to the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco and served as the Chinese ambassador to the Vatican in 1947-49.
In 1957, Wu was appointed a judge of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.
After the Chinese Communist Revolution, Wu worked as a professor at the Seton Hall University School of Law in New Jersey until retiring to Taiwan in 1967.