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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: Yung Wing Papers, Yale University
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Yung Wing's Grades
Description: As
the Yale Registrar's records reflect, Yung Wing nearly failed
out of college despite having an excellent command of English.
Date: c.1851, Yung Wing's sophomore year
Source:
Registrar's Office, Yale University
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Excerpts from Reverend J.H. Twitchell's Diary
Description:
Reverend J.H. Twitchell performed the marriage
ceremony between Yung Wing and his 24 year-old
bride.
Date:
1875-1881
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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 Papers, Yale University
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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 Papers, Yale University
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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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Charles Boothe,
W. Allen and Yung Wing
Description: Despite heralded as a much needed counterpoint
to the overly patriotic portrayal of Yung Wing,
these letters are understudied, so the credibility
of the sources and the context in which they were
written are unknown. Each of these excerpts concern
the funding for Sun Yat-sen's revolution, which Yung
Wing, Allen and Boothe were all a part of.
Date:
1908-1910
Source:
Lawrence Boothe Papers, Hoover Institute, Stanford
University
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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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Excerpts from the Hartford Daily Courant
Description:
Like the selections from the New York Times,
these articles date from about 1872 to 1881,
but, appropriately--as the basis of the
operation was in Hartford--are greater in
number.
Date:
1872-1881
Source:
The Hartford Daily Courant
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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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AS RETURNED STUDENTS |
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Wong
Kai Kah to Fannie Bartlett
Description:
Wong Kai Kah, a student of the CEM,
wrote this letter immediately after
returning to China, detailing the
degrading treatment they received upon
arrival.
Date:
January 28, 1882
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Wong
Kai Kah to Fannie Bartlett
Description:
After returning to Shanghai at the
government's behest, Wong Kai Kah wrote
another letter to Fannie Bartlett.
Date:
ca. February 1882
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Margaret Bartlett
to Woo Yang Tsang
Description:
Margaret Bartlett, a member of one of the families
who hosted some of the boys during their stay in
America, sent this letter to Woo Yang Tsang, a boy
who stayed with her family, over ten years after the
conclusion of the mission.
Date:
March 24, 1894
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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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