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Lan-Hua Liu
Birth Date:May 30, 1894
Birth Place:Taigu, Shanxi Province, China
Death Date:after 1947
Other Names:Lan Hua Liu Yui, Mrs. L. H. L. Yü, Lan Hwa Liu, Lew Lan Hua
Occupation:Educator, college administrator
Spouse(S):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

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

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.[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, and again giving lectures about her work.[20]

Publications

Personal life

Liu married military chaplain[22] and educator Sing Ching Yui (Yu Xinqing) in 1928.[23] They had a daughter, Hwa Hsin (Yu Huaxin). There is a collection of her correspondence in the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Records at Oberlin College.

Notes and References

  1. News: 1948-02-06 . Mrs. Yiu to Address Educational Group . 9 . Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer . 2023-11-12 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1922-06-24 . Miss Lew Lan Hua Tells Interesting Story of Life; Is Third Generation of Family of Christians . 3 . The Decatur Daily Review . 2023-11-12 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1923-04-06 . Chinese Girl to Stalk at Service . 6 . The Akron Beacon Journal . 2023-11-12 . Newspapers.com.
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=0ODOAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA26&ots=JSkYGRPiA1&dq=Lan%20Hua%20Liu%20Oberlin&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=Lan%20Hua%20Liu%20Oberlin&f=false "First Woman Representative"
  5. Web site: Aly. Halpert. Lan-Hua Liu . 2023-11-12 . Oberlin in Asia Digital Collection .
  6. May 31, 1936 . We Should Like You To Meet . Cheeloo Monthly Bulletin . 29 . 15.
  7. Munger . Alzina C. . April 1925 . The New Work for Girls in Oberlin-in-Shansi . Oberlin Alumni Magazine . 21 . 7 . 24, 26.
  8. News: 1926-06-17 . Untitled brief item . 11 . Gibson City Courier . 2023-11-12 . Newspapers.com.
  9. News: 1927-05-12 . War Passes By Shansi . 6 . Morning Free Press . 2023-11-12 . Newspapers.com.
  10. Swift . Dorothy R. . November 23, 1922 . The W.B.M.I. in Cleveland . The Congregationalist . 107 . 672.
  11. Web site: Document 3: 1929 Letter – Digitizing American Feminisms . 2023-11-12 . en.
  12. News: 1937-01-23 . Mrs. Yui to Address Missionary Society; Is Dean of Women Students in Chinese University . 26 . The Toronto Star . 2023-11-12 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Avann . Mrs. J. M. . 1936 . In Lands Afar . Year Book, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . 32 . Internet Archive.
  14. News: 1936-11-18 . Mrs. Lan Hua Yui Visits Mrs. Ferris . 1 . The Roberts Herald . 2023-11-12 . Newspapers.com.
  15. Book: Corbett, Charles Hodge . Shantung Christian University (Cheeloo) . 1955 . United Board for Christian Colleges in China . 238–240 . en.
  16. https://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/UnitedBoard/Shantung_Christian_University/Box%20243/RG011-243-3984.pdf "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"
  17. Book: China Handbook . 1937 . Macmillan . 839 . en.
  18. Book: China Yearbook . 1947 . China Publishing Company . 617 . en.
  19. News: 1947-04-25 . Christian Education in China is Topic of Mrs. Lan Yui at WSCS Meet . 7 . Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer . 2023-11-12 . Newspapers.com.
  20. News: 1946-10-31 . Guest Speaker . 6 . The Times . 2023-11-12 . Newspapers.com.
  21. Web site: Document 4: I Kao Shang Ti – Digitizing American Feminisms . 2023-11-12 . en.
  22. Book: Chʻêng, Marcus . Marshal Feng: The Man and His Work . 1926 . Kelly & Walsh, Limited . en.
  23. April 1927 . News of the Alumni . Oberlin Alumni Magazine . 23 . 7 . 28.

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