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Lan-Hua Liu

Lan-Hua Liu (May 30, 1894 – after 1947[1]) was a Chinese educator and college administrator. She was dean of women at Cheeloo University.

Lan-Hua Liu
A young Chinese woman with wavy dark hair
Lan-Hua Liu, from a 1925 publication
BornMay 30, 1894
Taigu, Shanxi Province, China
Diedafter 1947
Other namesLan Hua Liu Yui, Mrs. L. H. L. Yü, Lan Hwa Liu, Lew Lan Hua
Occupation(s)Educator, college administrator
SpouseYu Xinqing

Early life and education

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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

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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

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  • "I Kao Shang Ti: The Story of a Girl, a Will and a Way" (after 1929, pamphlet)[21]

Personal life

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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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Chinese Girl to Stalk at Service". The Akron Beacon Journal. 1923-04-06. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "First Woman Representative" Oberlin Alumni Magazine 21(7)(April 1925): 26.
  5. ^ a b c Halpert, Aly. "Lan-Hua Liu". Oberlin in Asia Digital Collection. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  6. ^ a b "We Should Like You To Meet" (PDF). Cheeloo Monthly Bulletin (29): 15. May 31, 1936.
  7. ^ Munger, Alzina C. (April 1925). "The New Work for Girls in Oberlin-in-Shansi". Oberlin Alumni Magazine. 21 (7): 24, 26.
  8. ^ "Untitled brief item". Gibson City Courier. 1926-06-17. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "War Passes By Shansi". Morning Free Press. 1927-05-12. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Swift, Dorothy R. (November 23, 1922). "The W.B.M.I. in Cleveland". The Congregationalist. 107: 672.
  11. ^ "Document 3: 1929 Letter – Digitizing American Feminisms". Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  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.
  13. ^ Avann, Mrs. J. M. (1936). "In Lands Afar". Year Book, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church: 32 – via Internet Archive.
  14. ^ "Mrs. Lan Hua Yui Visits Mrs. Ferris". The Roberts Herald. 1936-11-18. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ Corbett, Charles Hodge (1955). Shantung Christian University (Cheeloo). United Board for Christian Colleges in China. pp. 238–240.
  16. ^ "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.
  17. ^ China Handbook. Macmillan. 1937. p. 839.
  18. ^ China Yearbook. China Publishing Company. 1947. p. 617.
  19. ^ "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.
  20. ^ "Guest Speaker". The Times. 1946-10-31. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "Document 4: I Kao Shang Ti – Digitizing American Feminisms". Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  22. ^ Chʻêng, Marcus (1926). Marshal Feng: The Man and His Work. Kelly & Walsh, Limited.
  23. ^ "News of the Alumni". Oberlin Alumni Magazine. 23 (7): 28. April 1927.
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