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McTyeire School
McTyeire School () was a private girls' school in Shanghai. It was established by Young John Allen and Laura Askew Haygood in 1882. Its namesake was Holland Nimmons McTyeire. History The school had seven students in 1855 and more than 100 students in 1900. Multiple missionaries of the school lived in a building across from it. In 1952 it merged with St. Mary's Hall into Shanghai No. 3 Girls' High School. Demographics Most of the students originated from Shanghai. The school for its entire history catered to high socioeconomic status families and accordingly drew most its students from them. Citing ''Qianshi jinsheng'' (前世今生, "The previous generation and life today") by Su Su (素素), Wang Zheng, author of ''Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories'', wrote that "parents spent fortunes to make social connections that would help their daughters enroll" at McTyeire due to its prestige. The ''Christian Advocate'' in 1908 stated that, according to Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McTyeire
McTyeire may refer to: People *Holland Nimmons McTyeire (1824–1889), American Methodist bishop, Vanderbilt University co-founder, and slavery advocate *Rex H. McTyeire, co-founder of the far-right militia Oath Keepers in the U.S. * Holland McTyeire Smith (1882–1967), American marine general * Holland Thompson (Holland McTyeire Thompson; 1873–1940), American historian Places *McTyeire, Georgia, a town now known as Young Harris, Georgia, U.S. Schools * McTyeire College, a defunct Methodist college in McKenzie, Tennessee, U.S. *McTyeire Hall, a residential building at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. * McTyeire Institute, now known as Young Harris College, in Georgia, U.S. *McTyeire School McTyeire School () was a private girls' school in Shanghai. It was established by Young John Allen and Laura Askew Haygood in 1882. Its namesake was Holland Nimmons McTyeire. History The school had seven students in 1855 and more than 100 studen ..., in Shanghai, China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soong Ai-ling
Soong Ai-ling (), legally Soong E-ling or Eling Soong (July 15, 1889 – October 18, 1973) was a Chinese businesswoman, the eldest of the Soong sisters and the wife of H. H. Kung (Kung Hsiang-Hsi), who was the richest man in the early 20th century Republic of China. The first character of her given name is written as 靄 (same pronunciation) in some texts. Her Christian name was Nancy. Life Born in Shanghai, she attended McTyeire School beginning at age 5. Soong Ai-ling arrived in the United States at the Port of San Francisco, California on June 30, 1904, aboard the ''SS Korea'' at the age of 14 to begin her education at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. She returned to China in 1909 after her graduation. In late 1911, she worked as a secretary for Sun Yat-sen, a job later taken by her sister, Soong Ching-ling, who later became Madame Sun Yat-sen. Soong Ai-ling met her future husband, Kung Hsiang Hsi, in 1913, and they married the following year in Yokohama. After marrying, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Zhang (artist)
Jin Zhang () (1884–1939) was a painter, calligrapher, and art instructor active during China's Republican era. Her name is occasionally listed as Jin Taotao, though Jin Zhang is how she is most commonly known in historical record. Biography Jin Zhang was born in 1884 in the town of Nanxun in China to a prominent silk merchant family. Her grandfather founded a successful silk business that her father, Jin Dao, was able to expand internationally. His openness to foreign ideas led to his children growing up alongside popular Western inventions like microscopy, phonography, and the camera. Jin Zhang had several brothers and sisters, one of whom became Republican cultural leader Jin Cheng (1878–1926). One of her younger brothers, Jin Shaoji, co-founded the Peking Laboratory of Natural History in 1925 with American Amadeus William Grabau. Education As they came from what was considered a wealthy family, Jin Zhang and her siblings were privately tutored throughout their ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zung Wei-tsung
Zung Wei-tsung or Cheng Wanzhen (程婉珍), known after 1926 as Mrs. Chiu, was a Chinese social worker, educator, and journalist in the 1920s. She was interested in child labor and women workers, and involved in leadership of the YWCA at the international level. Early life and education Zung Wei-tsung was from Shanghai. She attended the McTyeire School for Girls in Shanghai, and studied music at the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro, where she is remembered as the college's "very first international student". She graduated from Smith College in 1919, with a degree in history. While in the United States, she was a member of the Chinese Students Christian Association in North America, and chaired the Association's committee on Bible study for women. Career Zung was a leader of the YWCA in China and internationally in the 1920s. She worked with British YWCA leader Agatha Harrison. She was also active in the leadership of the National Christian Council of China. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia S
Cecilia is a personal name originating in the name of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom and Italy, where in 2018 it was the 43rd most popular name for girls born that year), and the United States, where it has ranked among the top 500 names for girls for more than 100 years. It also ranked among the top 100 names for girls born in Sweden in the early years of the 21st century, and was formerly popular in France. The name "Cecilia" applied generally to Roman women who belonged to the plebeian clan of the Caecilii. Legends and hagiographies, mistaking it for a personal name, suggest fanciful etymologies. Among those cited by Chaucer in "The Second Nun's Tale" are: lily of heaven, the way for the blind, contemplation of heaven and the active life, as if lacking in blindness, and a heaven for people to gaze upon. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinshi High School
''Jinshi'' () was the highest and final degree in the imperial examination in Imperial China. The examination was usually taken in the imperial capital in the palace, and was also called the Metropolitan Exam. Recipients are sometimes referred to in English-language sources as Imperial Scholars. The ''jinshi'' degree was first created after the institutionalization of the civil service exam. Initially it had been "for six categories" but was later consolidated into a single degree. This system first appeared during the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). Throughout the Tang Dynasty, every year around one to two percent of test takers would obtain a ''jinshi'' title out of a total of one to two thousand test takers. The numbers of ''Jinshi'' degrees given out were increased in the Song Dynasty, and the examinations were given every three years. Most senior officials of the Song Dynasty were ''jinshi'' holders. The Ming Dynasty resumed the civil-service exam after its occurrence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Yiwei
Wang may refer to: Names * Wang (surname) (王), a common Chinese surname * Wāng (汪), a less common Chinese surname * Titles in Chinese nobility * A title in Korean nobility * A title in Mongolian nobility Places * Wang River in Thailand * Wang Township, Minnesota, a township in the United States * Wang, Bavaria, a town in the district of Freising, Bavaria, Germany * Wang, Austria, a town in the district of Scheibbs in Lower Austria * An abbreviation for the town of Wangaratta, Australia * Wang Theatre, in Boston, Massacheussetts * Charles B. Wang Center, an Asian American center at Stony Brook University Other * Wang (Tibetan Buddhism), a form of empowerment or initiation * Wang tile, in mathematics, are a class of formal systems * ''Wang'' (musical), an 1891 New York musical * Wang Film Productions, Taiwanese-American animation studios * Wang Laboratories, an American computer company founded by Dr. An Wang * WWNG, a radio station (1330 AM) licensed to serve Havelock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Woo Tsui
Pauline Woo Tsui (October 2, 1920 – November 27, 2018) was a Chinese American anti-discrimination activist. As a co-founder of the Organization of Chinese American Women, she is considered a pioneer of Chinese women's rights in the United States. Early life and education Pauline Woo was born in Nanjing, China, in 1920. Her father, John Yien-teh Woo, had been born in Hawaii, so she held dual U.S. citizenship. The influential educator Kuo Ping-Wen was her uncle. At a time when many women were systematically denied an education, she insisted on the importance of schooling for girls. After attending the McTyeire School, a private girls' school in Shanghai, she obtained a bachelor's degree in education from St. John's University, Shanghai. Displacement and exile During World War II, she was forced to flee the Japanese occupation, settling in Chongqing for three years. In Chongqing, she taught music at the Central Training Institute. After the war, she moved to the United States, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Yuin Tsao
Li Yuin Tsao (1886 – August 14, 1922), also seen as Tsao Liyuin, was a Chinese medical doctor. Early life Tsao was from Suzhou, the daughter of Tse-Zeh Tsao (Cao Zishi, 1847-1902), a Methodist minister who was partly educated in the United States. She attended the McTyeire School in Shanghai and a missionary girls' school in Nagasaki.Pripas-Kapit, Sarah"Piety, Professionalism and Power: Chinese Protestant Missionary Physicians and Imperial Affiliations between Women in the Early Twentieth Century"''Gender & History'', 27 (August 2015): 349–373. Tsao was a teacher before she received a scholarship from medical missionary Mary Hancock McLean to attend college in the United States in 1905. After two years of preparation at a women's college in St. Louis, she was a medical student at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she was vice-president of the class of 1911. In 1908, she attended the Conference of Chinese Students in Boston, and heard Wu Tingfang speak. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. The college was founded in 1837 as the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary by Mary Lyon, a pioneer in education for women. A model upon which many other women's colleges were patterned, it is the oldest institution within the Seven Sisters schools, an alliance of East Coast liberal arts colleges that was originally created to provide women with an education equivalent to that provided in the then men-only Ivy League. Mount Holyoke is part of the region's Five College Consortium, along with Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: through this membership, students are allowed to take courses at any other member institution. Undergraduate admissions are restricted to female, transgender, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Me-Iung Ting
Me-Iung Ting (; 1891–1969) was a Chinese physician and feminist. She was the daughter of a well-known Chinese doctor, Ting Gan-Ren. Me-Iung attended Mount Holyoke College and graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She was the only Chinese woman there in 1920. She completed her medical school and two additional years of training in Detroit and Philadelphia hospitals before returning to Tientsin (Tianjin), China. She became the director of the Tientsin Women's Hospital (aka Peiyang Women's Hospital). She also had charge of the city orphanage and two schools. In 1929, Dr. Ting returned to the University of Michigan as a Barbour Fellow. She spent her time collecting information for a book on prenatal care. Upon returning to China, she met an old banker, a friend of her father's, who became interested in her work and later published her book in pamphlet form, making it possible for Chinese women to purchase the book for a few cents. That book was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon And Schuster
Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publisher in the United States, publishing 2,000 titles annually under 35 different imprints. History Early years In 1924, Richard Simon's aunt, a crossword puzzle enthusiast, asked whether there was a book of ''New York World'' crossword puzzles, which were very popular at the time. After discovering that none had been published, Simon and Max Schuster decided to launch a company to exploit the opportunity.Frederick Lewis Allen, ''Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s'', p. 165. . At the time, Simon was a piano salesman and Schuster was editor of an automotive trade magazine. They pooled , equivalent to $ today, to start a company that published crossword puzzles. The new publishing house used "fad" publishing to publish bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
