McTyeire School () was a private girls' school in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

. It was established by

Young John Allen Young John Allen (January 3, 1836 – May 30, 1907) or Young J. Allen, was an American Methodist missionary in late Qing dynasty China with the American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission. He is best known in China by his local name Lin Lezhi ( ...

and

Laura Askew Haygood Laura Askew Haygood (October 14, 1845 – April 29, 1900) was an American educator and missionary from Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. A sister of Atticus Greene Haygood, she founded a school in Atlanta and served as a missionary in China. Ear ...

in 1882. Its namesake was

Holland Nimmons McTyeire Holland Nimmons McTyeire (July 28, 1824 – February 15, 1889) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1866. He was a co-founder of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a supporter of slav ...

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 Shanghai District presiding elder J. H. Young, 50% of entering students were Christians but that by graduation all students in a class were Christian.

Notable alumni

Grace Zia Chu Grace Zia Chu (April 23, 1899 – April 15, 1999) was an author of Chinese cookbooks and a major figure in American Chinese culinary world. Chu introduced generations of Americans to Chinese cooking. Personal life Grace Zia Chu was born in Sha ...

(graduated in 1918 and later taught at McTyeire) * Pearl Ing (

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) *

Soong Sisters The Soong sisters () were Soong Ai-ling, Soong Ching-ling, and Soong Mei-ling, three Shanghainese people, Shanghainese (of Hakka people, Hakka descent) Christian Chinese women who were, along with their husbands, amongst China's most significant ...

(

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 centu ...

, Soong Mei-ling, Soong Ching-ling) - Ai-ling and May-ling began attending at age five while Ching-ling began attending at age 7. * Me-Iung Ting * Li Yuin Tsao * Pauline Woo Tsui * Wang Yiwei (王伊蔚) - She faced difficulties at the school as she had a northern Chinese background and was unaccustomed to Western education. She transferred to Jinshi High School in Beijing. * Cecilia S. L. Zung, lawyer, theatre writer, UN delegate * Zung Wei-tsung, journalist and YWCA leader *

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