Lan-Hua Liu
Lan-Hua Liu | |
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 Lan-Hua Liu, from a 1925 publication | |
| Born | May 30, 1894 Taigu, Shanxi Province, China |
| Died | after 1947 |
| Other names | Lan Hua Liu Yui, Mrs. L. H. L. Yü, Lan Hwa Liu, Lew Lan Hua |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, college administrator |
| Spouse | Yu Xinqing |
Lan-Hua Liu (May 30, 1894 – after 1947[1]) was a Chinese educator and college administrator. She was dean of women at Cheeloo University.
Early life and education[edit]
Liu was born in Che Wang, Taigu, Shanxi Province.[2] Her grandfather was Liu Fengzhi, a Christian convert and community leader. Her grandfather and mother were killed in the Boxer Rebellion, when Liu was a little girl. She attended Christian missionary schools in Shanxi and Peking (Beijing),[3] and graduated from Yenching College in 1917.[4] She graduated from Oberlin College in 1925. She earned a master's degree at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1926.[5] In 1936 she took a summer course at Cornell University.[6]
Career[edit]
Liu was a girls' school principal in Shanxi,[7] before and after her time at Oberlin.[8][9] She spoke about her school's work at a missionary meeting in Ohio in 1922.[10] She was responsible for handling the school's merger with a boys' school to create a co-educational school. In a 1929 letter, Luella Miner refers to Liu as "one of my college daughters", while they were working together in Shanxi.[11] In 1936 and 1937, she toured in the United States and Canada,[12] lecturing and raising funds for her work.[6][13] She visited her friend Janette O. Ferris while in the United States.[14]
In the 1930s Liu was dean of women at Cheeloo University, leading the school's women during significant wartime upheaval, when much of the school fled Tsinan (Jinan) for Chengtu (Chengdu).[15] "We still retain our identity and our ideals, and are seeking to cultivate here a group who will be ready at the first opportunity to return to our real home and build up again the work which has been so sadly interrupted," she wrote in a March 1939 letter to American supporters.[16] In the 1930s and 1940s, she was a treasurer and member of the National Committee of the YWCA of China.[17][18]
Liu was in California in the mid-1940s, recovering her health,[19] living at the Ming Quong Home in Los Gatos,[1] and again giving lectures about her work.[20]
Publications[edit]
- "I Kao Shang Ti: The Story of a Girl, a Will and a Way" (after 1929, pamphlet)[21]
Personal life[edit]
Liu married military chaplain[22] and educator Sing Ching Yui (Yu Xinqing) in 1928.[23] They had a daughter, Hwa Hsin (Yu Huaxin).[5] There is a collection of her correspondence in the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Records at Oberlin College.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Mrs. Yiu to Address Educational Group". Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer. 1948-02-06. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miss Lew Lan Hua Tells Interesting Story of Life; Is Third Generation of Family of Christians". The Decatur Daily Review. 1922-06-24. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chinese Girl to Stalk at Service". The Akron Beacon Journal. 1923-04-06. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "First Woman Representative" Oberlin Alumni Magazine 21(7)(April 1925): 26.
- ^ a b c Halpert, Aly. "Lan-Hua Liu". Oberlin in Asia Digital Collection. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
- ^ a b "We Should Like You To Meet" (PDF). Cheeloo Monthly Bulletin (29): 15. May 31, 1936.
- ^ Munger, Alzina C. (April 1925). "The New Work for Girls in Oberlin-in-Shansi". Oberlin Alumni Magazine. 21 (7): 24, 26.
- ^ "Untitled brief item". Gibson City Courier. 1926-06-17. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "War Passes By Shansi". Morning Free Press. 1927-05-12. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Swift, Dorothy R. (November 23, 1922). "The W.B.M.I. in Cleveland". The Congregationalist. 107: 672.
- ^ "Document 3: 1929 Letter – Digitizing American Feminisms". Retrieved 2023-11-12.
- ^ "Mrs. Yui to Address Missionary Society; Is Dean of Women Students in Chinese University". The Toronto Star. 1937-01-23. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Avann, Mrs. J. M. (1936). "In Lands Afar". Year Book, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church: 32 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Mrs. Lan Hua Yui Visits Mrs. Ferris". The Roberts Herald. 1936-11-18. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Corbett, Charles Hodge (1955). Shantung Christian University (Cheeloo). United Board for Christian Colleges in China. pp. 238–240.
- ^ "Minutes of the Council of the Women's Unit, Tsinan (June 16, 1932)" and "Report of the Activities of Cheeloo Women for the Year 1937-38", and other materials related to Shantung Christian University, in the collection of the Yale Divinity School.
- ^ China Handbook. Macmillan. 1937. p. 839.
- ^ China Yearbook. China Publishing Company. 1947. p. 617.
- ^ "Christian Education in China is Topic of Mrs. Lan Yui at WSCS Meet". Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer. 1947-04-25. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Guest Speaker". The Times. 1946-10-31. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Document 4: I Kao Shang Ti – Digitizing American Feminisms". Retrieved 2023-11-12.
- ^ Chʻêng, Marcus (1926). Marshal Feng: The Man and His Work. Kelly & Walsh, Limited.
- ^ "News of the Alumni". Oberlin Alumni Magazine. 23 (7): 28. April 1927.