He entered the first class of the Morrison Educational Society School in Macao in 1841 with two other Chinese boys, Yung Wing and Wong Foon.

Wong became one of the first Chinese to study abroad when in 1847, Dr. Samuel Robbins Brown, an American teacher in the Morrison School, had to leave China due to his ill health.

They embarked at Whampoa on the ship Huntress and started the journey of more than three months during which they passed the Cape of Good Hope and proceeded to the United States.

[1] As a result of ill health, Wong Shing did not manage to acquire any academic honours during his study in the United States and had to return to Hong Kong after two years.

[2] In 1872 Wong was offered an appointment in the Tsung Li Yamen in Peking, to set up a printing office with moveable type for the foreign ministry.

[2] He served with Viceroy Li Hung-chang and Marquis Tseng Chi-tze and was a member of the Chinese legation staff in Washington.

[1] During his service at the Qing government, Wong took the second group of students in Yung Wing's Educational Mission scheme to the United States.