Sophia Tierong Zhu papers, 1947-2005 (inclusive).

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Sophia Tierong Zhu papers, 1947-2005 (inclusive).

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The papers include correspondence, writings, and photographs relating to the life and career of Sophia Tierong Zhu. Autobiographical writings about Zhu and her husband, Zhang Ifan, who were both victims of anti-rightist movements in China, comprise a substantive part of the papers. The collection also documents Zhu's close relationship with many English Language Instructors from Yale University.

3 linear ft.

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Yale University Library

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Yale University Library

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McDougal, Myres S. (Myres Smith), 1906-1998

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Yale-China Association

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Plans for a Yale mission in China were first formulated in 1901. In 1902, the Yale Foreign Missionary Society was organized, and Lawrence Thurston travelled to China in order to contact missionary groups and investigate locations for a mission. In 1903, the First Conference of Protestant Missions of Hunan invited a Yale group to settle in Changsha. Brownell Gage, Warren Seabury, and Edward Hume formed the first group. A collegiate school, Yali Middle School, opened in 1906, and in 1914, the Coll...

Chang, Ifan, 1906-

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Zhu, Sophia Tierong.

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Sophia Tierong Zhu was born in Shanghai on February 6, 1915. She graduated from Shanghai University in 1937 and received a M.A. in sociology from Yale University in 1948. She taught and worked in the Department of Foreign Languages at Hunan Medical University in Changsha from 1950 until her retirement in 1988. During the Anti-Rightist Campaign and the Cultural Revolution, Zhu was labeled an ultra-rightist and a special agent suspect. Both labels were redressed in 1979. Beginning in 1979, Zhu wor...