He attended St. John's College in Shanghai, then Episcopal High School in 1892–1894, and then University of Virginia in 1894–1896 as the first Chinese student.
Theodore Wong and Zhang Zaixin translated six Sherlock Holmes works in 1901.
Theodore Wong rendered Holmes's name as 福而摩司, which would be read as Fú'érmósī in Modern Standard Mandarin.
A man was prosecuted for the killing, but the courts overturned his sentence in the case Ziang Sung Wan v. United States.
[2] Due to preservatives, his body was taken back to China on February 14, 1920; an open-casket funeral was held on March 7 of that year at Church of Our Savior in Shanghai.