Yamei Kin
Yamei Kin (* 1864 in Ningpo , now Ningbo ; † 1934 China) was a Chinese doctor. It contributed significantly to the spread of soybean and tofu in the western world.
Life
Yamei Kin was born in 1864 in the east Chinese city of Ningpo (now Ningbo) as the daughter of a Chinese pastor and his wife. When she was two years old, her parents died in a cholera epidemic. She was adopted by a US mission couple, Divie Bethune and Juana McCartee. She grew up in China and Japan, where her adoptive father worked for the Ministry of Education.
After her parents moved to New York, Kin attended high school in Rye , New York, for a year . At the age of 16 she enrolled under the name Y. May King at the Womens Medical College in New York and graduated in 1885 as the best in class.
In 1894 she married Hippolytus Laesola Amador Eça da Silva, a Macau-born musician of Portuguese and Spanish descent. The couple settled in Hawaii, where Kin gave birth to a son. She later moved to California and separated from her husband.
Kin returned to China for good in 1920, two years after their son Alexander died fighting for the United States in France during the final weeks of the First World War.
She died of pneumonia in 1934 at the age of 70 without offspring; at her request, she was buried outside Beijing.
Act
In 1917, on behalf of the US government, Yamei Kin visited her homeland to study the soybean, which was virtually unknown in the United States.
credentials
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Mike Ives (2018). Overlooked No More: Yamei Kin, the Chinese Doctor Who Introduced Tofu to the West. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/obituaries/yamei-kin-overlooked.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kin, Yamei |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | chinese doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ningpo , today Ningbo |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1934 |