CEM Connections - Lin Yuen Fai

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Lin Yuen Fai

Pinyin & Chinese characters	Lin Lianhui 林联辉
Variant Spellings & Other Names	Lien Luen Fay Lin Luen Fai
Other Chinese Names	林丽堂
Detachment	4
LaFargue No.	109
Date of Birth	1861
Place of Birth	Nanhai, Guandong Province.
Age at Departure for U.S.	15 (Lunar Calendar)
Date of Death	1900. Died of septicemia while treating wounded during Boxer Rebellion.
Place of Death	Tianjin
Place(s) of residence in U.S.	Enfield, CT; 1880: Andover, MA
American Host Family/ies	Miss C.J. Porter; 1880: Louise H. Eaton (1880 U.S. Census)
School(s), with dates	Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
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First Assignment in China	Assigned to Beiyang Medical School 北洋医学堂, Tianjin; graduated 1885.
Later Positions	Instructor at Beiyang Medical School Director of Beiyang Hospital (first Chinese director of a Western-style hospital) 1895: Personal physician to Viceroy Li Hongzhang when Li was sent as Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan to sue for peace after China's defeat in Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95. Saved Li's life after assassination attempt.
Employment sector(s)	Medicine: Education, Administration and Clinical Practice
Final rank, if in gov't service	Fourth Rank Expectant Tong Zhi (Sub-Prefect) of Zhili Region 四品直隶候补同知 awarded 1895.
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Family relations w/ other CEM students	Elder brother of Lin Yuen Shing (Lin Liansheng 林聯盛IV, 101)
Children's Names	Youngest son: Lin Shixi 林世熙: physician educated at Qing Hua, Johns Hopkins; taught medicine at Peking Union Medical College, practiced in Tianjin.
Descendants	Lin Cheng-Chi 林正基 lives in Ontario, Canada. Paul Yang-Kao Lin 林仰高, 4th son of Lin Shixi, is a doctor in Hawaii Lonnie Mingqing Lin 林明清, daughter of Paul, is a gynecologist in N. Carolina. Raymond Yang-Chun Lin 林仰进, nephew of Paul, is a cardiac surgeon in Texas
Other	Information is drawn principally from: Lee Chee Kong, “CEM Student Lin Yuen Fai and his Contributions to Modern Chinese Western Medicine (Abstract)," paper presented at the Celebration of 150th Anniversary of Yung Wing’s Graduation from Yale and Conference on “Yung Wing and Revival of China through Scientific Education,” Zhuhai, China, November 2004, 李志刚:留美幼童林联辉对近代中国西医事业的贡献(提要), with additional material courtesy Richard Yung.
Notes and Sources	1.The romanization of the middle character 联 should have been "Luen," and not "Yuen" as rendered by Yung Shang Him (1939) and LaFargue(1987).