Wong was born in 1908 and was originally from Panshidian in Shandong province. Her father Wong Yicheng was killed during the 1911 Revolution and she was adopted by the politician Ding Weifen. She earned a bachelor's degree at Yenching University, after which she went to the United States to study for a master's degree at the University of Michigan. While in America, she met and married Kuan-hai Ting and the couple had a son, Samuel. Two months after his birth, the couple returned to China, where they had two more children. She became a professor at the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Education and National Institute of Social Education. After joining the Kuomintang, she became an alternate member of the party's sixth central committee.