Harvard (?) Boxer Rebellion Scholars

[chane]

Did all of the students end up at Harvard Yenching?

How can I track one of the scholars from Taishan using his birth name and "hao" name? He died young in the USA of an illness.

[laohuaqiao]

Yenching is an Asian Studies institute. I doubt that many of the early Chinese scholars would have come to the US and gone to Yenching for that.

I recall Liang Qichao's eldest son Liang Sicheng and his wife Lin Huiyin (Maya Lin's aunt) went to U of Penn in the 1920s on the Boxer Rebellion scholarship, he in the School of Architecture and she in School of Fine Arts because the architectural school didn't accept women back then.

Liang Sicheng was from Xinhui.

Try google and baidu.com to search for the individual.

[chane]

I have managed to find name lists for the first three batches of scholarship students:

Wikipedia 第一次庚子赔款留美学生列表

zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E6%AC%A1%E5%BA%9A%E5%AD%90%E8%B5%94%E6%AC%BE%E7%95%99%E7%BE%8E%E5%AD%A6%E7%94%9F%E5%88%97%E8%A1%A8

Two of the second group were from Taishan: 徐墀 （梦塘） 刘寰伟 （寰伟）

However, the one I am hoping to find is not listed, and nothing on Baidu. Is it possible that not all recipients were listed, only those who finished and returned, not died or failed? I am aware of at least six batches. I hope someone can point me to names for the 4-6th batches.

[douglaslam]

The Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship is an emotional subject to me. It reminds me the suffering of the Chinese people, and the carving up of China. It also evokes a great deal of pride for the young men sent abroad represented China's great scientific and literary minds of the time. They showed the world what our people were capable of given a level playing field.

It is to the U.S. credit that so much of the extortion payment was used to educate the creme of China's intellectuals. I can readily identify a few of the names from the pinyin list. For example, there is Xian Xuesen ( he was known as Tsien Hsue-sen in the U.S.), the father of China's rocket program who was the subject of Iris Chang's book Thread Of the Silkworm. He was hounded out of the U.S. by the McCarthy witch-hunt.

Then there is Hu Shih, a towering figure of modern Chinese literature. This youtube clip is a song set to his modern free verse poem. I had to learn this poem by rote when I was a little boy in Hong Kong.



Nobel physics laureate C. N. Yang was another distinguished member of that company.

[chane]

Recently found out we can access the China Collection of Genealogies, 1239-2014, at Family Search.
(provided by Church of LDS but I believe a genuine public service).

I can navigate to this part documenting Chen surname in Guangdong. How should I proceed? (very slow in reading Chinese!)

(陳氏)僑港豐芑聯誼修譜特輯 : 1冊(44頁), 1900