Huang and Nancy Huang, the husband and wife who founded the China Post, were elite students and graduates of Beijing University's journalism department. During the war against Japan, Y.P. Huang had served as editor-in-chief of the Chinese-language Shishi Xinbao.
《英文中國郵報》創辦人黃遹霈、余夢燕夫婦是燕京大學新聞系畢業的高材生，抗戰時期黃遹霈曾任《時事新報》總編輯。