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[http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Public_Affairs/520/yls_article.htm "Yellow in a White World" 2004 Yung Wing Lecture] by [[Harold Hongju Koh]], Dean, [[Yale Law School]] |
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[http://web.pdx.edu/~lorz/index.htm The Yung Wing Project] contains the transcribed text of Yung Wing's memoir <i>My Life in China and America</i>. |
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[[Category:1828 births|Wing, Yung]] |
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Revision as of 23:09, 29 March 2006
Yung Wing (Chinese: 容闳; Pinyin: Róng Hóng) (November 17, 1828 - May 29, 1912) was the first Chinese student to graduate from a U.S. university, graduating from Yale University in 1854.
After finishing his studies Yung Wing returned to China and worked with western missionaries as an interpreter. In 1859 he accepted an invitation to the court of the Taiping rebels in Nanjing, but his proposals aimed at increasing the efficiency of the Heavenly Kingdom were all eventually refused. In 1863 Yung Wing was dispatched by Zeng Guofan to buy machinery necessary for opening in China an arsenal capable of producing weapons comparable with those of the western powers.
Yung Wing was naturalized as an American citizen on October 30, 1852, and in 1876, he married Mary Kellogg, an American.
He perusaded the late Qing Dynasty government to send young Chinese to the United States to study. With the government's eventual approval, he organized several batches of young Chinese students to the United States. Many of them later returned to China and made contributions in civil services, engineering and sciences.
External links
"Yellow in a White World" 2004 Yung Wing Lecture by Harold Hongju Koh, Dean, Yale Law School
The Yung Wing Project contains the transcribed text of Yung Wing's memoir My Life in China and America.