Che Chiang Liang and Jeanne Liang
SubjectPortrait of
Che Chiang Liang
(Chinese)
SubjectPortrait of
Jeanne Liang
(Chinese)
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Date1917-1920
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper on card mount
DimensionsMount (height x width): 13 × 10in. (33 × 25.4cm)
Other (image height x width): 8 × 6in. (20.3 × 15.2cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Roger P. Welles
Object number1974.51.3
DescriptionStudio portrait of a man and woman, Che Chiang Liang and his wife Jeanne Liang. She is seated at the left, wearing a tunic and skirt, with patterned dark stockings and dark heeled shoes with a leather bow decoration in front. She wears a necklace of small pearls with a pearl heart, and a watch, bracelet, and rings. Her hair is coiled in braids at her ears, and held together with a pearl hair accessory. He is standing beside and slightly beside her, with his arm on the back of the chair, and wearing traditional Chinese clothing of a skirt or long gown with frog closures, and a short jacket. Both the jacket and the pants are pattered material, likely silk. His hair is combed straight back from his forehead. There is a patterned floor, perhaps carpet. The portrait is mounted on a beige mat with gold outlines.
Label TextChe Chiang Liang became engaged to Miss Yor in 1917 through family arrangement. He writes to Martin Welles of Hartford about in on 27 June 1917 in Ms 101025_31_pg1-2. Che was the son of Chinese Educational Mission student Tun Yen Liang, a graduate of Hartford Public High School, who came back to America with his son in 1911.
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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