Henry Chung

Henry Chung, born Chung WuShiong (; September 9, 1918 – April 23, 2017) was a Chinese diplomat who served in the Nationalist government of China and later started a well known Hunan restaurant in San Francisco.

Early life and education Chung was born in 1918 into a landed peasant family in Liling, Hunan. His father, Chung Wei Yi, was a soldier who died when Chung was approximately two years old; he was raised by his mother and grandmother. he was recruited by the National Revolutionary Army as a cashier. At the then National Central University in Chongqing,

Government career 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.

Personal life and death Chung's first marriage was an arranged child marriage when he was 8, to a 12-year-old girl. Chung's granddaughter MacKenzie Chung Fegan has been the lead restaurant critic of the San Francisco Chronicle since early 2024.

Chung died on April 23, 2017, in San Francisco, aged 99.