1. Yung Wing was a Chinese-American diplomat and businessman.
13 Facts About Yung Wing
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Yung Wing was involved in business transactions between China and the United States and brought students from China to study in the United States on the Chinese Educational Mission.
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Yung Wing became a naturalized American citizen, but his status was later revoked under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
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Yung Wing was a member and librarian of Brothers in Unity, a prominent Yale student literary society.
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In 1863, Yung Wing was dispatched to the United States by Zeng Guofan to buy machinery necessary for opening an arsenal in China capable of producing heavy weapons comparable with those of the western powers.
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Yung Wing persuaded the Qing dynasty government to send young Chinese to the United States to study science and engineering.
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Yung Wing had followed the lead of the Guangxu Emperor, whom Yung described as the great pioneer of reform in China.
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In 1908, Yung Wing joined "General" Homer Lea, the former American military advisor to Kang Youwei, in a bold and audacious military venture in China called the "Red Dragon Plan" that called for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to conquer Liangguang.
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Yung Wing requested his two sons to go in his place.
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Yung Wing was naturalized as an American citizen on October 30,1852, and in 1876, he married Mary Kellogg, an American.
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At Yale's centennial commencement in 1876, Yung Wing received an honorary Doctor of Laws.
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Yung Wing's grave is located at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford.
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Yung Wing was considered a possible namesake for one of Yale University's new colleges which was completed in 2017.