Foo Ping-sheung

Foo Ping-sheung (; 1895–1965) was a diplomat and politician in the early Republic of China and later in Taiwan.

Foo was born to a well off family in Foshan, Guangdong. At the age of ten, he was sent to St. Stephen’s College in Hong Kong, and then trained as a civil engineer at Hong Kong University.

Politics Foo quickly turned to political service for his uncle by marriage, Wu Ting-fang, then was an attache for the Canton Delegation of the Paris Peace Conference. He became secretary to Sun Yat-sen, an experience which led to his becoming Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government 1927. As a prominent member of the Prince’s Clique (Taizi pai), a political network headed by Sun Ke, the son of Sun Yatsen, Fu held various positions in the Foreign Ministry, then became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang in 1935. He was Republic of China's Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. from 1943 to 1949.

Semi-retirement and later years Foo retired to Paris and lived there from 1949 to 1956. He then returned to work for Chiang Kai-shek as President of the Anti-Corruption Board and Vice President of the Judicial Yuan in Taiwan until his death in 1965.

Foo was an avid amateur photographer who took informal photos of leading politicians and their families.

Family Foo's eldest daughter, Katherine (傅锦培), married Bin Cheng, a renowned legal scholar who served as Dean of the University College London Faculty of Laws.