Yook Yee Wong in Guangzhou (Canton), China

1933
Lingnan University Women’s Dormitory
by Yook Yee Wong / Huang Yuyu (黄玉瑜)

(click images to enlarge)

1935
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital
by Yook Yee Wong (Huang Yuyu)
“YYW” is in the lower right-hand corner
of the drawing

March 1935

Late 1930s

1947

Yook Yee Wong’s residence

2004–2005
Residence at No. 7, Nonglin Shanglu 7 Henglu

Residence on left side of street; garage entrance on far left

Tree near garage entrance

Yellow squares painted for comparison before house was painted.

Courtyard view of house entrance

Third floor

Chimney

Third floor view of courtyard entrance

Third floor view of garage

Courtyard rear wall

Courtyard front wall and garage

Historic Buildings of Guangzhou Plaque

photographed 15 July 2014

Chinese American Understanding: A Sixty-year Search

Chih Meng

China Institute in America, 1981

Chih Meng identified the people he met in Guangzhou (Canton): “...K.P. Pao (MIT) was head of the electric power plant, K. C. Liu (NYU) managed the Bank of Canton, S. C. Chen (VMI) headed the Chemical Warfare Department of Whampoa Military Academy, Y.Y. Wong (MIT) was a leading architect who had designed the new municipal hospital and the Tung Shan housing development, Y. C. Koo (Harvard) was Commissioner of Finance....”

About Yook Yee Wong

born: September 16, 1902 (K.S. 28-8-15), Chung Hing Lee, Hoi Ping District, China
died: May 1942, Baoshang, China (Japanese bombing victim)

Student, village school, China
Student, Ng Lee School, Hong Kong (Fall 1912)
Student, Ng Lee School, Oakland, California (Spring and Summer 1913)
Student, Ng Lee School, San Francisco, California (Fall 1913–Winter 1914)
Student, Pierpont School and the Josiah Quincy School, Boston, Massachusetts (Spring 1914–1917)
Student, Northwest Prepartory School (1917–1918)
Army Registrant, Camp Eustis, Virginia (1918–1919)
Employee, Coolidge & Shattuck, architects (122 Ames Street; 1919–1920)
Student, Tufts College, (1920–1921)
Employee, Coolidge & Shattuck (1921–1922)
Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1923–1925)
Draftsman, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott (1925–March 1929)

Xin Kuai Bao
August 22, 2013

Guangzhou Daily
February 26, 2014

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(Updated August 22, 2015; next post,
Yook Yee Wong’s son: Allen Chin 1949, 1951–1953)