Showing posts with label MIT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MIT. Show all posts

Friday, January 13, 2017

China Comes to MIT

A History of the First Chinese Students: 1877–1931

China Comes to Tech: 1877–1930
February 6, 2017 – November 30, 2017
MIT Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery
160 Memorial Drive, Building 14N-118
Cambridge, MA 02139


Student Profiles

Yung Chung Kwong 鄺詠鐘 (Class of 1883)

King Yang Kwong 鄺景揚 (Class of 1884)

Hein Chow Kwong 鄺賢儔 (Class of 1884)

Tyng Se Chung 鄧士聰

Yau Foke Sik 薛有福

Yang Se Nam 楊兆南

Ralph Yuen Fong Sun

Chow Ming 周銘 and Ip Yuk-Leung 葉玉良

Sidney Shea Ying Chen 陳石英 (Class of 1913, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering)

Chow Hou-Kun 周厚坤  (Class of 1914, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture)

Turpin Hsi 席德柄 (Class of 1914, Sanitary Engineering)

Fucheng Seetoo 司徒傅權 (Class of 1914)

Te Chun Hsi 席德炯 (Class of 1915, Mining Engineering)

P.Y. Loo 盧炳玉 (Class of 1916, Mechanical Engineering)

Von-Fong Lam 林允方 (Class of 1916, Naval Architecture)

Wong Tsoo 王助 (Class of 1916, MS 1917)

Yu-Ching Tu 涂羽卿 (Class of 1918)

Wing Lock Wei 韋榮洛 (Class of 1918, Electrical Engineering)

Sung Sing Kwan 關頌聲 (Class of 1919, Architecture)

Y. M. Kuo 過養默

William Ding Moy 梅連枝 (Class of 1920, Course II/Mechanical Engineering)

Ming Chow 周銘

Yu-Liang Yeh (Yuk-Leung Ip) 葉玉良

Z.Z. Li 李善述 (Class of 1922, Chemical Engineering)

P.Y. Tang 唐炳源 (Class of 1923, Engineering Administration)

James Wong 王長齡 (Class of 1924, Naval Architecture)

Y.Y. Wong 黃玉瑜 (Class of 1925, Architecture)

Y.H. Ku 顧毓琇 (Class of 1925, Electrical Engineering, MS 1926, DSc, 1928)

Chu Shih-Ming (Class of 1926, Mechanical Engineering)

Walter Kwok 郭慧德 (Class of 1927, Engineering Administration)

C.K. Jen 任之恭 (Class of 1928, Electrical Engineering)

Lee Li Fu 李勵紱 (Class of 1929, Electrical Engineering)

Chick-Ho Lam 林植豪 (Class of 1931)

Po-Ting Ip 葉葆定 (Class of 1934, Civil Engineering)


Further Reading
South China Historical Trail
麻省理工学院教授为南粤古驿道活化提建议
(in Chinese; photograph of Tunney Lee; may take 30 seconds or more to load)

(Updated February 21, 2017; next post on Friday: Chen Chi’s “Painting the Town: San Francisco”)


Friday, August 21, 2015

Yook Yee Wong and the American Institute of Architects

Yook Yee Wong / Huang Yuyu (黄玉瑜) was a Junior member of the American Institute of Architects, which published membership lists in The Annuary. The following pages from The Annuary, 1926 to 1930, were provided by The American Institute of Architects Archives. Special thanks to Nancy Hadley, Assoc. AIA, CA, DAS, and Senior Manager, Archives and Records.
Juniors of The American Institute of Architects
There shall be a class of Juniors whose affiliation with the Institute shall be in accordance with the following provisions of this Article. No other provision of this Constitution and By-laws shall have any application to Juniors except as herein expressly provided.

Any graduate in architecture of a school recognized by the Institute, or any special student in such a school who shall have spent at least two years there, and is recommended by the head of the school, is eligible as a Junior, provided application is made within two years of graduation or completion of his special course.

The Junior affiliation shall expire automatically when the Junior is elected to Chapter associateship, or Institute membership, or when he reaches age of thirty.—By-laws, Art. III, Section 1.





“Y.Y. Wong: An Overseas Chinese Architect”
Guangdong Overseas Chinese Museum
Guangzhou, China
September 2–15, 2015
(Next post on Friday: Poy Gum Lee’s Kimlau Memorial Arch)

Friday, April 25, 2014

Tunney Lee

Institute for Asian American Studies
2009 interview

Tunney Lee
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

MIT Professor Tunney Lee
Boston Chinatown Master Plan

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

China Planning Network
About Tunney Lee
January 2010 visit

The Concrete Dragon
Thomas J. Campanella
Lulu.com, 2011

China Daily USA
Qingming tradition continues in US
April 4, 2012

February 19, 2013
Chinatown Atlas exhibit unveiled at neighborhood reading room

Chinatown Lantern
Boston Chinatown Atlas Exhibit on facebook

February 22, 2013
Boston’s Chinatown shows no sign of demise, scholar says

May 23, 2011
Chinese population expanding in Boston suburbs

November 15, 2013
Asian CDC celebrates reclaiming of Hudson Street

November 20, 2013
2013 ACDC Annual Meeting Looks Forward to One Greenway

Boston Public Library

Harvard Urban Field Service, 1971

Tunney Lee, Alex Jay and Susan Chisen at the
Chinese Historical Society of New England office















Chinese Historical Society of New England


















Chinese in Boston: 1870-1965

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Yook Yee Wong in Boston and at MIT

Yook Yee Wong
(Huang Yuyu / 黄玉瑜)

1920 Boston Directory
Wong Yookee draftsman 122 Ames bldg rms 699 Wash
(Coolidge & Shattuck, architects)
detail, page 1687

(click images to enlarge)

Tufts College Bulletin December, 1920
Annual Catalogue 1920–1921
Catalogue of Tufts College 1920–1921
Bromfield-Pearson School
Wong, Yook Yee ce [Civil and Structural Engineering] Boston

1922 Boston Directory 
Wong Yook-Yee draftsman 122 Ames bldg res 32 Tyler
(Coolidge & Shattuck, architects)
detail, page 1775

Boston Globe
July 23, 1922
Chinatown Proud of It’s Boy Scouts—and It Has Good Reason for It
“...Y.Y. Wong is the physical instructor....”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports of the President and Treasurer
June 30, 1923
The F.W. Chandler Prizes
Triglyph Fraternity Prizes

1923 Technique
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rifle Club

Architectural Society

Wong, Yook Yee, 1924, 95 Wing Lock St., Hong Kong, China

1924 Technique
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chinese Students’ Club

Architectural Society

Wong, Yook Yee, 1924, Hong Kong, China

1925 Technique
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wong, Yook Yee, 1925, 95 Wing Lock St., Hong Kong, China

American Institute of Architects
Member, 1925

Boston Globe
June 16, 1925
Complete List of Degrees Conferred by Technology

After graduation, Wong resumed work at
Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, architects;
one of his co-workers was Edward Durell Stone;
Stone and Wong worked on the Fabyan Building.

F.D.S. [Full Scale Drawing]
Number 86
1st Floor Balustrade
Y.Y.W. [Yook Yee Wong]
September 2, 1926

 3/4" Scale
Number 95
Malleable Cast Iron Bal Basement 2nd Floor
Y.Y. W. [Yook Yee Wong]
September 27, 1926

1928 Boston Directory
Wong Yook-Yee draftsman 122 Ames bldg res 11 Hanson
(Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, architects)
detail, page 2030

1929 Boston Directory
Wong Yook-Yee draftsman 122 Ames bldg res 11 Hanson
(Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, architects)
detail, page 2065

U.S. Department of Labor
Form 432
March 11, 1929

March 18, 1929
Chinese Exclusion Act Case File
interview excerpt

March 24, 1929
Yook Yee Wong and family departed for China;
going by rail from Boston to Vancouver,
then by steamship from Vancouver to China.

detail, March 25 letter

In China, Wong would meet Shinn-hong Howard Jee
and collaborate on a capital plan for Nanjing.