Posted on Jun 15, 2021
Yung Wing, the Chinese Educational Mission, and Transnational Connecticut | Connecticut History |...
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"Yung Wing was a Chinese-born naturalized American diplomat and businessman who made history by becoming the first ethnic Chinese to graduate from an American college (Yale University). In 1876, he married a White woman named Mary Kellogg who hailed from a prominent Connecticut family. They had two children: Morrison Brown Yung and Bartlett Golden Yung"
Yung Wing, the Chinese Educational Mission, and Transnational Connecticut | Connecticut History |...
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American History
Yale University
China
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LTC Eugene Chu
Chinese American and immigrant communities were, in this Exclusion Act era, fragile, always endangered, and subject to the worst of the nation’s xenophobia and bigotry. But as the students’ experiences and victories illustrate—and as Yung’s life and identity exemplify—19th-century Chinese Americans also comprised an evolving, transnational community that helped define the best of US history, culture, and ideals. Some of that community’s most inspiring moments, from Yung’s Avon marriage to his final years in Hartford, the Mission’s Hartford opening to the Celestials’ baseball games, also represent a powerful part of Connecticut history too important to be forgotten.
Chinese American and immigrant communities were, in this Exclusion Act era, fragile, always endangered, and subject to the worst of the nation’s xenophobia and bigotry. But as the students’ experiences and victories illustrate—and as Yung’s life and identity exemplify—19th-century Chinese Americans also comprised an evolving, transnational community that helped define the best of US history, culture, and ideals. Some of that community’s most inspiring moments, from Yung’s Avon marriage to his final years in Hartford, the Mission’s Hartford opening to the Celestials’ baseball games, also represent a powerful part of Connecticut history too important to be forgotten.
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