Ying Mei Chun
Ying Mei Chun | |
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陳英梅 | |
Born | about 1890 Hong Kong |
Died | August 17, 1938 Canton, China |
Other names | Ying Mei Chen, Ying Mei Lin, Chen Yingmei |
Occupation | Educator |
Relatives | Meyer Kupferman (son-in-law) |
Ying Mei Chun (Chinese: 陳英梅; pinyin: Chén Yīngméi; c. 1890 – August 17, 1938) was a Chinese physical educator, based in Shanghai.
Early life and education
Chun was from Hong Kong. She attended the McTyeire School in Shanghai, and graduated from Wellesley College in 1913.[1][2] She took additional certification training in physical education in New York.[3][4] Chun was chair of the woman's department of the Chinese Student Christian Association in North America in 1911.[5] She was secretary of the Wellesley Alumnae Association chapter in Shanghai.[6]
Career
After graduating from college in the United States, Chun was director of the physical department of the Shanghai YWCA.[7][8] She taught in the physical education program at Ginling College.[9][10] and at "eight or ten girls' schools" in Shanghai,[11] working as co-teacher and translator with American missionary educators Henrietta Thomson and Abby Shaw Mayhew.[12][13] "Never have I seen such a living dynamo of energy as Miss Chun in the class-room," wrote fellow Wellesley College alumna Sophie Chantal Hart in 1919. "Her girls worked so joyously with such concentration and zest that it set your blood racing to watch them."[14] She used dances and games to organize exercise activities, according to former students.[15] She left teaching to marry.[16]
While in the United States for school, Chun attended the Silver Bay conference of the YWCA.[5] In 1915, she attended an international YWCA conference in Los Angeles.[17] Another Wellesley alumna, Edith Stratton Platt, visited Chun and her family in 1922.[18]
Publications
- "A Wedding in South China" (1912)[19]
Personal life
In 1918, Chun married Dao Dan Yang Lin, a forestry professor at Nanking University.[14] They had three children, including daughter Lin Peifen (also known as Peifen Kupferman or Peggy Lin), a choreographer and dance educator who married American composer Meyer Kupferman.[10][20] Chun died in 1938, in Canton, in her late forties.[3]
References
- ^ Wellesley College, Legenda (1913 yearbook): 69.
- ISBN 978-0-8047-8041-4.
- ^ a b Littell-Lamb, Elizabeth A. "Gospel of the Body, Temple of the Nation: The YWCA Movement and Women's Physical Culture in China, 1915-1925" (December 2007): 180.
- S2CID 259795204.
- ^ a b Monthly report of the Chinese Student Christian Association in North America. October 1911. pp. 32, 45–46.
- ^ Wellesley College (1916–1917). "Local Associations". Calendar: 190.
- ^ "Alumnae Notes". The Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly. 2: 123. 1917.
- ^ "Why a Physical Training School in China". Blue Triangle News (78): 2. October 24, 1919.
- ^ "Minutes of the Board of Directors of Ginling College" (October 28 and 29, 1932): 29.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4384-2914-4.
- ISBN 978-5-87083-168-8.
- ^ Mayhew, Abby Shaw (December 1916). "Physical Education in China". The Association Monthly. 10 (11): 490–492.
- ^ "With Our Secretaries Abroad: From Restless China". The Association Monthly. 10 (7). August 1916.
- ^ a b Hart, Sophie C. (July 1919). "Wellesley Women in China". Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly. 3 (4): 293.
- ISBN 978-0-7748-2483-5.
- ^ Mayhew, Abby Shaw (November 1918). "A Normal School of Physical Education and Hygiene for Chinese Women". American Physical Education Review. 23 (8): 498.
- ^ "National Board News". Association Monthly. 8 (6): 224. July 1914.
- ^ Platt, Edith Stratton (April 5, 1922). "The Gate Into the City". The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal. 95: 495.
- S2CID 144845566.
- ^ "Lin Pei-fen (Peggy Lin) smiling happily after the dance recital she both choreographed and directed". Yale University Library. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
External links
- Ying Mei Chun in her academic cap and gown, in the frontispiece of the September 1915 issue of Woman's Work in the Far East, a quarterly publication of the Presbyterian Mission Press in Shanghai
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