| Object: | Statue of Yung Wing |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Where to find: | Exhibition Corridor of Sterling Memorial Library |
What to know: This statue of Yung Wing (1828-1912), the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university, was donated to Sterling Library by his home city of Zhuhai, China. It commemorates the 150th anniversary of his graduation from Yale College in 1854.
As a Yale student, Yung donated a translation of the Chinese historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to the Brothers in Unity, a campus literary and debate society, for which he also served as an assistant librarian. In 1877, he made a larger donation to Sterling Library - over 1,200 books from his personal collection. These volumes established Yale's Chinese Collection, the first of its kind at an American university.
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