[citation needed] At the then National Central University in Chongqing,[1] he studied English and then graduated with a degree in Chinese history.
[5][6] Chung became a civil servant and after the end of World War II was sent to Japan and in 1948 to a position in the consulate in Houston.
[1][3][5] After its defeat in the Chinese Civil War, the Nationalist government summoned Chung to Taiwan, but at his wife's insistence, he stayed in America.
[1][5] In 1974, on his wife's advice, he started a small Chinese restaurant on Kearny Street in San Francisco's Chinatown called Hunan, serving spicy dishes based on his grandmother's cooking.
[1][3] They had a son and two daughters, all of whom moved to the United States in the 1980s after being persecuted in the Cultural Revolution;[1] Chung and his wife sponsored them and their families and provided them with restaurant jobs.
[3] His second wife, Hwang TehYung (Chinese: 黃德榮; pinyin: Huáng Déróng; Wade–Giles: Huang Te-jung), who took the name Diane Chung in America, was a star volleyball player and hurdler whom he met at university.