Hong Kong: Cheng Ying-Hsi

Cheng Ying-Hsi is one of the first women architects in Hong Kong, and the only woman featured on a list of 93 authorized architects in Hong Kong in the 1953 Hong Kong Government Gazette. She holds a bachelor’s of engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and a master’s of engineering from the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. Cheng Ying-Hsi worked as an engineer for the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company prior to her employment in academia (1947). She was a lecturer in the Department of Engineering at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. She was also one of the first women to obtain a full-time appointment as a lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong (1954). Cheng Ying-Hsi served as a member of Britain’s Women Engineering Society, and she participated in the establishment of the Engineering Society of Hong Kong.