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Yung Wing on
Yale
Description: Yung Wing wrote this letter to Samuel Wells
Williams about his freshmen year in college. He was 22 at the
time.
Date: December 25, 1850
Source: Williams, Samuel Wells, Family Pps, Yale University
Manuscripts & Archives (More
Info)
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Yung Wing Marries a
Connecticut Lady
Description:
A short description of Yung Wing's marriage to Mary
Kellogg of Avon, Connecticut.
Date: March
12, 1875
Source:
p. 2, The New York Times
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Among the Colleges
Description: On Yale's Commencement
Day in 1876, Yung Wing received an honorary LL.D.
Date: June
30, 1876
Source:
p. 2, The New York Times
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Yung Wing to Addison Van Name
Description: Yung Wing prepares the University
Librarian, Professor Addison Van Name,
for a forthcoming shipment of books from
China.
Date: March 1, 1877
Source: Yung, Wing, Pps, Yale University Manuscripts &
Archives (More
Info)
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Yung Wing to Addison Van Name
Description: Yung Wing sends Van Name the final
instructions and a content list for the
four crates the university will be
receiving via a Mr. S.
Date: May 29,
1878
Source: Yung, Wing, Pps, Yale University Manuscripts &
Archives (More
Info)
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The Chinese Embassy
Description: Announcing the arrival of Chen Lan Pin and the
return of Yung Wing to the United States, the
article provides a short profile of both
men.
Date:
September 18, 1878
Source: p. 2, The New York Times
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Address on Chinese Work & Address of Hon. Yung Wing
Description:
Two selections that, while include commentary on
Yung Wing, cover mostly the topic of Chinese
laborers in America.
Date:
January 1886
Source:
pp. 372-376, Vol. XL, No. 1, The American
Missionary
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No. 1567, National
Archives, Record Group 77
Description: Secretary of State John Sherman had Charles Denby
revoke Yung Wing's U.S. citizenship in response to
the Chinese Exclusion Act passed in 1882.
Date: April
14, 1898
Source: No. 1567, National Archives, Record Group 77
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Building Railroads in China
Description:
Two paragraphs on the resolution of the
German-American conflict over the rights to build
specific railroads in China.
Date: June
5, 1898
Source:
p. 15, The New York Times
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Yung Wing A Yale Man
Description: Even though the byline suggests
that the article covers Yung Wing's duality in relation to his
wife and sons, the article is more of a summary of his diplomatic efforts
than a biography.
Date: August
5, 1898
Source:
p. 15, The New York Times
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Yung Wing's Railroad Deal
Description:
A brief update on the negotiations over the rights
to build the Tientsin-Chung King railroad.
Date:
August 30, 1898
Source:
p. 7, The New York Times
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Mark Twain to Reverend J.H. Twitchell
Description: As a personal friend of Yung Wing, Mark Twain
enjoyed a written correspondence with him. This,
however, is a letter about him, not to him. Two small paragraphs
relate Mark Twain's thoughts on Yung Wing's recent request of
the U.S. government to provide assistance to China.
Date: July
28, 1901
Source:
Mark Twain's Letters 1901-1906, Arranged with
Comment By Albert Bigelowe Paine
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Old Yale's Commencement
Description:
Yung Wing was a guest of honor at Yale's 1902
graduation ceremony.
Date:
June 26, 1902
Source:
The New York Times
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My Life in China
and America by Yung Wing
Description: Yung Wing's memoir was published in 1909, written
when he was about 80. As a source of reliable
information, his memoir is suspect despite most
academic citations on Yung Wing and the CEM coming
from this singular source.
Date: 1909
Source:
Published by
New York, Henry Holt Company
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The Life Story of Dr. Yung Wing by Kiyoshi K. Kawakami
Description: Less about Yung
Wing's life story and more about the author's point
of view, he uses Yung Wing's autobiography to
support his claims that China is corrupt and ailing.
Date:
March
12, 1910
Source:
p. BR4, The New York Times
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Dr.
Yung Wing Dies
Description: Yung Wing's obituary from The New York Times.
Date: April
22, 1912
Source:
The New York Times
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CHINESE EDUCATIONAL MISSION |
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Excerpts from the New York Times
Description:
These selections from the New York Times
date from about the arrival of the students
in America to a short time after their
recall to China.
Date:
1872-1881
Source:
The New York Times
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Yung
Wing and His Work by
James L. Bowen
Description:
James L. Bowen wrote this article a few
years into the Chinese Educational Mission
about Yung Wing and his educational project.
Date: May 1875-October
1875
Source:
pp. 106-109, Volume 10, Issue 1, Scribner's
Monthly, An Illustrated Magazine for the
People
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1880
US Census
Description: Here is a list of the living
situations for many of the boys as reported
by the government. Many of the
transliterations are considerably different
than what anyone else has provided.
Date: 1880
Source:
United States Census Bureau
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Senior
Returned Students by Arthur G. Robinson
Description:
An interesting historical note: Robinson,
who was friend to many of the CEM students
when they grew up, also taught Li Dazhao,
the co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party, who,
in turn, taught Mao Zedong.
Date: June 24, 1932
Source:
Published by
P. & T. Times
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Autobiography, with Letters
by William Lyon Phelps
Description:
In the twelfth chapter, this Yale professor
recalls his childhood as a classmate to
several of the CEM students.
Date: 1939
Source:
pp. 83-86, Chapter 12, New York: Oxford
University Press
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YAN PHOU LEE, A STUDENT OF THE
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When I Was a Boy in
China
by Yan Phou Lee
Description:
Written by a student of the CEM, this children's
book details childhood in China with a very
interesting bias as Yan Phou Lee converted to
Christianity and stayed on to become a journalist in
the States.
Date:
1887
Source:
Published by
Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
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Graduating
Address of Yan Phou Lee, at Yale College
Description:
Yan Phou Lee says farewell with a rejoinder to the
Chinese Exclusion Act which passed five years
before.
Date:
September 1887
Source:
pp. 269-273, Volume 41, Issue 9, The
American Missionary
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Why I am
Not a Heathen
Description:
Written shortly after he graduated from Yale, Yan
Phou Lee defends his status as a Chinese convert to
Christianity.
Date:
September 1887
Source:
pp. 306-313, Volume 145, Issue 370, The
North American Review
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The
Chinese Must Stay
Description:
Three years into his professional life, Yan Phou Lee
is still pursuing popular education of the Chinese
reality.
Date:
April 1889
Source:
pp. 476-484, Volume 148, Issue 389, The
North American Review
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GOVERNMENT POLICY |
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Burlingame Treaty
Description:
Ratified in 1868, the Burlingame Treaty
amended the Treaty of Tientsin which
established a friendly relationship between
the United States and China. In particular,
it promised legal reciprocity for Chinese
citizens in the U.S. and U.S. citizens in
China.
Date:
Signed July 28, 1868; ratified by the
President of the United States October 19,
1868; ratified by China November 23, 1869;
ratification exchanged at Peking November
23, 1869
Source:
United States Government
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Angell
Treaty
Description:
In 1880, the Angell Treaty was passed which
revoked some of the amenities provided by
the Burlingame Treaty, but not all.
Date:
Concluded November 17, 1880; ratified by the
Senate May 5, 1881; ratified by the President of the United
States May 9, 1881; ratification exchanged July 19, 1881;
proclaimed October 5, 1881
Source:
United States Government
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Description:
Passed in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act
suspended the Burlingame Treaty which
provided both protection and immigration
rights to Chinese citizens in the U.S.
Date:
May 6, 1882
Source:
Forty-Seventh Congress. Session I. 1882
Chapter 126.
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