Who's Who in the Far East/YUNG WING
YUNG WING (SHANGHAI), LL.D.; Scholar and Diplomat b. 1828 m. 1876. Educ.: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.; graduated from Yale, 1854, being first Chinese graduate of a foreign University. Sent abroad by Tseng Kuo-fan to purchase machinery for the Kiangnan Arsenal at Shanghai, 1864; appointed Chief Commissioner of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1871: appointed Associate Chinese Minister at Washington, Dec., 1876; returned to China, 1882, to submit a report of the Educational Mission to the Peking Government; sent to Peru in the seventies as Chinese Commissioner to investigate the coolie traffic, and as a result of his report said traffic was shortly afterwards abolished; is Expectant Taotai of Kiangsu. Publications: Chinese translation of "Parson's Law of Contracts," and other works. Address: Shanghai, China.