Shen Teh Yew | 1919 CEM Reunion, LaFargue Collection | Shen Deyao 沈德耀 | C. Tak Yaou Ching Tak Yaw Shin Teh Yew | 沈祖勋 | 4 | 112 | 1862 | Ciqi, Zhejiang Province | 14 (Lunar Calendar) | | Shanghai | Hebron, CT1 | Charles and Charlotte Phelps1 | | | | | | Shen was expelled in April 1878 for fighting with a neighbour of his host family. Back in China, he was sent to the newly-opened Kaiping Mining Co. to interpret for the British engineers who had been hired to direct the initial excavations.2 He was the first CEM returnee to work at Kaiping Mines. | 1884 Shen went home to be with his dying father and never returned to Kaiping Mines. In 1885, from Shanghai, he wrote to Mrs. Phelps that he was umemployed and looking for a position as an "English writer" in a consulate or a large firm. Nothing further is known about his later career.3
| Government: Interpretor; unknown thereafter | | | | | The elder brother of Shen Teh Fai (Shen Dehui 沈德辉, IV, 113) | | | | 1. Shen and his bother had originally been assigned to stay with Miss H. G. Atwell of Pleasant Valley, CT, but were later reassigned to the Phelps family. Data courtesy of Edward Rhoads. Cf. also Boundless Learning, 48, item 28. 2. See Rhoads (2011), p. 199, and fn50 on p. 272. Shen's 2 letters (Sept. 1878 from Kaiping, Mar. 1882 from Chow Cha Tung) to Mrs. C.L. Phelps are kept in the Phelps Family Papers in Hebron, Connecticut. 3. See Rhoads (2011), p. 203, and fn55 on p. 273. | |
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