Word: changsha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about it. Born in Oregon, he graduated from Linfield College, decided to become a missionary, but first went east for further study at Yale. He took a doctorate in Far Eastern history, and joined the university's fledgling Yale-in-China program, which supported a daughter college at Changsha. Latourette spent two years as a teacher in China, and returned to the U.S. because of poor health. He began his 41 years as a professor at the Yale Divinity School in 1921. Between classes, Latourette squeezed in an impressive variety of nonacademic chores: he was one of the founding...
...gave him food and civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver to Changsha and Wuhan. His boldest act was his escape to Hong Kong. He stole a government seal, used it to stamp a letter "authorizing" him to requisition a Land Rover from a PSB motor pool. He drove to the Hong Kong border, and the PSB emblem...
Financing came through the Yale-in-China Association and through income from the modest endowment, which now totals approximately $800,000. Reports from Changsha still reflected some of the early missionary enthusiasm that led to the Association's formation, while the "Bachelors" program, through which two graduating seniors spent a year in East Asia, similarly demonstrated the vigorous, somewhat idealistic, and somewhat elementary Yale approach. Yale-in-China intentionally did not and still does not favor advanced studies of China exclusively; it tries to raise Chinese standards by diffusing education and improving medical practice...
Yale-in-China suffered a similar fate. A Communist edict closed the school at Changsha, and the trustees of the Yale-in-China Association cast about for a new way to improve East Asian education. In 1953, they decided to support New Asia College, a school set up in Hong Kong by refugee scholars. The Western-style approach to learning has been continued. Its full-time staff of 42 members teaches standard subjects, and in currently planning to create a Faculty of Science. In cooperation with other Hong Kong schools, New Asia College is also attempting to strengthen its Chinese...
Displaced from their original homes in Peking and Changsha, Harvard and Yale educators have nevertheless continued to aid Chinese education. Their different approaches still remain manifest, however. Harvard-Yenching spends several hundred thousand dollars annually to exchange knowledge of Chinese culture, by means of research in East Asia and Cambridge; Yale-in-China spends less than one hundred thousand dollars spreading Western knowledge through China, but assisting a school in Hong Kong. The competition between Cambridge and New Haven may be all the more fierce with the similarity of the two universities. In the little-known area of East Asian...