The first from China
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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8:01am November 17 2021
Yung Wing, Class of 1854, was born on this date in 1828. Yung was the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university. His statue stands in the Memorabilia Room of Sterling Memorial Library. Read more about him in this Old Yale column.
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