Che Chiang Liang
SubjectPortrait of
Che Chiang Liang
(Chinese)
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Dateabout 1915
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 4 × 2 15/16in. (10.2 × 7.5cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Roger P. Welles
Object number1974.51.2
DescriptionBust-length studio portrait of a young Chinese man, Che Chiang Liang. He wears a vest and jacket with wide lapels, and a white high-collared shirt and bow necktie. He is facing directly into the camera. His hair is parted in the center, and combed down and towards the back.
Label TextPortrait of Che Chiang Liang, son of Tun Yen Liang, a graduate of Hartford Public High School. Tun Yen Liang moved to Washington D.C. to work for the U.S. government as assistant secretary of the Board of Foreign Affairs, leaving his son in the care of Martin Welles, his close friend from high school and college.
The Chinese Educational Mission (1872-1881) in Hartford, Connecticut, was the fulfillment of a dream of Yung Wing. He wanted Chinese youth to study American technology to improve China’s engineering and infrastructure. Yung Wing came to the United States in 1847 to study at Monson Academy in Massachusetts, and at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. It was upon his return to China that he began planning to Chinese students to America.
A group of thirty students ranging in age from ten to fourteen arrived in Hartford in 1872. They lived with host families, attended local schools, and in the summer studied Chinese classics at the Mission’s headquarters at 352 Collins Street, Hartford. In 1881 the Chinese government recalled the students because they thought they were becoming too Americanized.
The Chinese Educational Mission (1872-1881) in Hartford, Connecticut, was the fulfillment of a dream of Yung Wing. He wanted Chinese youth to study American technology to improve China’s engineering and infrastructure. Yung Wing came to the United States in 1847 to study at Monson Academy in Massachusetts, and at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. It was upon his return to China that he began planning to Chinese students to America.
A group of thirty students ranging in age from ten to fourteen arrived in Hartford in 1872. They lived with host families, attended local schools, and in the summer studied Chinese classics at the Mission’s headquarters at 352 Collins Street, Hartford. In 1881 the Chinese government recalled the students because they thought they were becoming too Americanized.
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