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Rong, Hong

(Nanping, Guangdong 1828-1912 Hartford, Conn.) : Staatsmann, Diplomat, Christ

Name Alternative(s)

Yung Wing
Yung, Wing
Rong, Guangzhao

Subjects

History : China / Index of Names : China / Periods : China : Qing (1644-1911)

Chronology Entries (16)

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1 1847 Rong Hong schliesst sein Studium an der Morrison School in Macao und Hong Kong ab und reist mit Samuel Robbins Brown nach Amerika.
2 1847-1852 Rong Hong besucht die Monson Academy in Massachusetts und studiert am Yale University College.
3 1852 Rong Hong wird amerikanischer Staatsbürger.
4 1854 Rong Hong kehrt nach China zurück.
  • Document: The missionary enterprise in China and America. Ed. and with an introd. by John K. Fairbank. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1974). (Fair 1, Publication)
5 1854 Rong Hong promoviert in Literatur als erster Chinese an einer amerikanischen Universität, an der Yale University.
6 1854-1872 Rong Hong ist für die chinesische Regierung tätig.
7 1864 Rong Hong reist nach Amerika und kauft Maschinen für das Jiangnan Arsenal.
  • Document: The missionary enterprise in China and America. Ed. and with an introd. by John K. Fairbank. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1974). (Fair 1, Publication)
8 1870 Zeng Guofan ist überzeugt von Rong Hongs Erziehungsplan, chinesische Studenten in den Westen zu schicken.
9 1872 30 chinesische Studenten der Fremdsprachenschule in Shanghai reisen unter Leitung von Rong Hong und Chen Lanbin zur Ausbildung nach Amerika.
10 1872-1875 Rong Hong ist Leiter der Chinese Education Mission in China.
11 1872-1875 Joseph Hopkins Twichell helped and sponsored the project 'Chinese Educational Mission', proposed by Rong Hong and approved by Li Hongzhang.
12 1875 Chen Lanbin und Rong Hong werden Botschafter für Amerika und Peru.
13 1878 Rong Hong nimmt als Vize-Botschafter für Washington an der Eröffnung der ersten chinesischen Delegation in Amerika teil.
  • Document: The missionary enterprise in China and America. Ed. and with an introd. by John K. Fairbank. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1974). (Fair 1, Publication)
14 1880-1881 Letter from Mark Twain to William Dean Howells ; 24 Dec. (1880), Harford, Conn. Xmas Eve.
"Next day I attended to business—which was, to introduce [Joseph Hopkins] Twichell to Gen. [James Hope] Grant & procure a private talk in the interest of the Chinese Educational Mission here in the U. S. Well, it was very funny. Joe had been sitting up nights building facts & arguments together into a mighty & unassalilable array, & had studied them out & got them by heart—all with the trembling half-hearted hope of getting Grant to add his signature to a sort of petition to the Viceroy of China; but Grant took in the whole situation in a jiffy, & before Joe had more than fairly got started, the old man said: "I'll write the Viceroy a letter—a separate letter—& bring strong reasons to bear upon him; I know him well., & what I say will have weight with him; yes, & with the advers I will attend to it right away. No, no thanks—I shall be glad to do it—it will be a labor of love."
Letter from James Hope Grant to Mark Twain. (1881).
"Li Hung Chang is the most powerful and most influential Chinaman in his country. He professed great friendship for me when I was there, and I have had assurances of the same thing since. I hope, if he is strong enough with his government, that the decision to withdraw the Chinese students from this country may be changed."
Letter from Mark Twain to James Hope Grant ; March 16 (1881).
"Your letter to Li Hung Chang [Li Hongzhang] has done its work, & the Chinese Educational Mission in Harford is saved. This cablegram mentions the receipt of your letter, & at the same time it commands the minister Chin to take Yung Wing [Rong Hong] into his consultations."
15 1898 Rong Hong kehrt nach China zurück und ist aktives Mitglied der Reformbewegung.
16 1902 Rong Hong kehrt nach Amerika zurück.

Bibliography (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1909 Yung, Wing [Rong, Hong]. My life in China and America. (New York, N.Y. : H. Holt, 1909). Publication / YunW1
2 1915 Yung, Wing [Rong, Hong]. Xi xue dong jian ji. (Shanghai : Shang wu yin shu guan, 1915). Übersetzung von Yung, Wing [Rong, Hong]. My life in China and America. (New York, N.Y. : H. Holt, 1909).
西学东渐记 		Publication / Rong1

Secondary Literature (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 2005 Yung Wing : http://academic.evergreen.edu/e/eiddus20/YungWing.htm. Web / Yung