On his Tao Te Ching translation, Thomas Merton said Wu's work was "absolutely necessary for us not only to progress but even to survive.

"[1] A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he was the principal author of the constitution of the Republic of China (ROC).

Previously a Methodist, he was a convert to Roman Catholicism after reading the biography of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

[5] He resigned in August, by which time the ROC Foreign Ministry had already re-located to Taipei due to Nationalist losses in the Chinese Civil War.

[5] 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.