Favorite Son Pioneered Chinese Study-Abroad Programs
Even the most internationally minded American high school students have probably never heard of this seaside boomtown, which lacks the historical and cultural heft of more prominent Chinese locales such as Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai.
But every time a teenager in the United States receives permission to study abroad in China, that fortunate Western soul would be advised to pay proper tribute to one of this city’s native sons—a cross-cultural pioneer named Yung Wing.
Yung Wing was born in Zhuhai in 1828 and educated by Christian missionaries. He is famous in China for having traveled across the Pacific as a teenager and enrolled at Yale College, which later became Yale University. He is believed to be the first Chinese student to earn a degree from a North American university—and possibly the first to earn a degree from any foreign university—a fact of which Zhuhai...
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