Zee Yuh-tsung

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Yuh-tsung Zee (or Zee Yuh-tsung , Chinese 徐 亦 蓁 or 徐 蘅 ; * 1894 in Jiangsu , China , † February 1, 1981 in Saint Petersburg , Florida ) was a Chinese diplomat in the mid-20th century.

Zee ( 徐 ) was her maiden name (family name) in Wu . Yuh-tsung ( 亦 蓁 ) was her first name (after the family name in China). Zee Yuh-tsung (also Tsu Ih-djen ) is Xu Yizhen (in Pinyin inscription) or Hsü I-chen in Mandarin ( Wade-Giles inscription). In the USA , or at the United Nations , Zee was also known by her husband's name as Mrs. Way-sung New or Mrs. Yuh-tsung New .

Origin and education

Zee was born in Suzhou, China in 1894. Her family had been Christian for three generations. She graduated from the Elizabeth Yates Memorial All Girls' School in Shanghai in 1910 and taught at private schools in Shanghai from 1910 to 1915. In the spring of 1915, she began a history and education degree at the Ginling College of the Nanjing Pedagogical University , which she in 1919 as one graduates with a BA . At Ginling , she made a lifelong friendship with Wu Yi Fang , who later became the first Chinese President of Ginling .

Employment, social, political work and family

After her training, Zee worked as a teacher in Nanjing and Beijing . In this field of activity, she chaired the Chinese Child Relief Committee based in Shanghai . In 1924 she married the orthopedist Dr. Way-sung New . After her marriage, she continued to work professionally and voluntarily. She served as chair of the school board of trustees of the Shanghai Methodist School and Ginling College , was involved in welfare work and ran training programs for nurses at her husband's clinic. During this time she also received an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University . In 1928 their son Peter was born. After the death of her husband in 1937, she devoted herself intensively to humanitarian work for the International Red Cross in war-torn Shanghai until 1939 . She taught English again at St. Stephen's College in Hong Kong from 1939 to 1941 .

In 1945, she helped prepare the Chinese delegation for the San Francisco Conference , which included her friend Wu Yi Fang. In 1947 she was a founding member of the UN Commission on Women’s Rights , which worked on the formulation of the UN Human Rights Charter.

From 1949 to 1955 she lectured at various institutions in the United States. In 1955 she became the assistant dean of the Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio . She held this office until 1959. After that, she concentrated on working in her church and for the Ginling Alumni Group . She became an American citizen in 1961 . She died in 1981.

further reading

  • Rebecca Adami: Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Routledge . 2018, ISBN 978-0-429-79552-7
  • Devaki Jain: Women, Development, and the UN . Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-253-21819-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minnie Vautrin: Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38. University of Illinois Press, 2008 ISBN 978-0252033322 , page 230
  2. ↑ Minnie Vautrin: Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing . University of Illinois, 2008, ISBN 978-0-252-03332-2 , p. 258: "[index] New, Mrs. Way-sung, or Zee, YT, or Tsu, Ih-djen"
  3. ↑ a b c d e https://books.google.ch/books?id=bc5vyn6OVEsC&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=%22Way+Sung+New%22#v=onepage&q=%22Way%20Sung%20New%22&f=false Jin Feng: The making of a Family Saga - Ginling College , State University of New York Press, Albany, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4384-2913-7
  4. ^ Smith Alumnae Plan Benefit Garden Tea . Bronxville Review-Press, Sep. 24, 1942, 10
  5. ↑ Mrs. Way-Sung to lead New Barnes Forum on Chinese problem . The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume 62, Number 59, Dec 9, 1942, page 1
  6. ^ Way-Sung New , Biography. Prabook, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Zee, Yuh-tsung
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mrs. Way, Sung New; Yuh-tsung Zee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Jiangsu , China
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 1981
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Florida