Chung Ching Shing  | LEFT: 1878, Member "Orientals" baseball team (LaFargue Collection) | Zhong Juncheng 钟进成1; 钟俊成2 | C. T. Ching Chung T. Ching Chung Tsung Ching Tsing Ching Ching Tsung Ching Chung | 钟勉之 | 1 | 27 | 1859 | Xiangshan, Guangdong Province | 14 (Lunar Calendar) | | Shanghai
| (1) Wilbraham, MA? (2) Springfield, MA (3) Hartford, CT (4) 1879 New Haven: 59 Wall St. [The Yale Banner, v. 36 (1879), p. 38] (5) 1880 New Haven: 36 Elm St. [The Yale Banner, v. 37 (1880), p. 40]
| (1) N/A; (2) W. R. Potter | Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, MA 1873-75; Springfield Collegiate Institute, Springfield, MA 1875-76; Hartford Public High School, Hartford, CT 1876-77; Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT 1877-793 | Gave oration titled “The Future of China” at year-end ceremonies at Springfield Collegiate, June 1876.4 Member of The Orientals, the CEM baseball team | Yale Sheffield Scientific School 5; admitted 1879, but dismissed from the CEM, 1880, for cutting his queue and sent home6 | 1879 Member of Alpha Chi, Freshman fraternity in Sheffield Scientific School [The Yale Banner, v. 36 (1879), p. 69]; Member of Yale University Bicycle Association [Pot-pourri (Yale publication) v. 16 (1880-81), p. 101] | | | Consular Service (U.S.) served in Canton, Hong Kong, Amoy and Chungking. | Government (U.S.) | | | | | | | | His Yale classmates recalled that Chung "dressed in the extreme of fashion of that time, and tried to be as American-like as possible. To carry this out he had his queue cut off, an act which caused considerable comment..." (see p. 151 in note 6).
| 1. Chung signed his Chinese name thus in Yung Kwai’s autograph album (courtesy Dana Young). 2. Given in some CEM students name list. 3. Data about schools and dates from Rhoads (2011), pp. 92, 96 & 97. 4. Rhoads (2011), p. 159. 5. Qian & Hu (2003), 106; Qian & Hu ( 2004) 114. 6. Rhoads (2011), pp. 136 & 151. | |
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