Lan-Hua Liu

Liu was born in Che Wang, Taigu, Shanxi Province.{{Cite news |date=1922-06-24 |title=Miss Lew Lan Hua Tells Interesting Story of Life; Is Third Generation of Family of Christians |pages=3 |work=The Decatur Daily Review |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-decatur-daily-review-miss-lew-lan-hu/135069292/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |via=Newspapers.com}} Her grandfather was Liu Fengzhi, a Christian convert and community leader. Her grandfather and mother were killed in the Boxer Rebellion, when Liu was a little girl. She attended Christian missionary schools in Shanxi and Peking (Beijing),{{Cite news |date=1923-04-06 |title=Chinese Girl to Stalk at Service |pages=6 |work=The Akron Beacon Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-akron-beacon-journal-chinese-girl-to/135068993/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |via=Newspapers.com}} and graduated from Yenching College in 1917.[https://books.google.com/books?id=0ODOAAAAMAAJ&dq=Lan+Hua+Liu+Oberlin&pg=PA26 "First Woman Representative"] Oberlin Alumni Magazine 21(7)(April 1925): 26. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1925. She earned a master's degree at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1926.{{Cite web |first=Aly| last=Halpert|title=Lan-Hua Liu |url=https://www2.oberlin.edu/library/digital/shansi/bios3.html |access-date=2023-11-12 |website=Oberlin in Asia Digital Collection }} In 1936 she took a summer course at Cornell University.{{Cite journal |date=May 31, 1936 |title=We Should Like You To Meet |url=https://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/UnitedBoard/Shantung_Christian_University/Box%20265/RG011-265-4264.pdf |journal=Cheeloo Monthly Bulletin |issue=29 |pages=15}}

Liu was a girls' school principal in Shanxi,{{Cite journal |last=Munger |first=Alzina C. |date=April 1925 |title=The New Work for Girls in Oberlin-in-Shansi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ODOAAAAMAAJ&dq=Lan+Hua+Liu+Oberlin&pg=PA24 |journal=Oberlin Alumni Magazine |volume=21 |issue=7 |pages=24, 26}} before and after her time at Oberlin.{{Cite news |date=1926-06-17 |title=Untitled brief item |pages=11 |work=Gibson City Courier |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/gibson-city-courier-untitled-brief-item/135011158/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1927-05-12 |title=War Passes By Shansi |pages=6 |work=Morning Free Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/morning-free-press-war-passes-by-shansi/135011047/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |via=Newspapers.com}} She spoke about her school's work at a missionary meeting in Ohio in 1922.{{Cite journal |last=Swift |first=Dorothy R. |date=November 23, 1922 |title=The W.B.M.I. in Cleveland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZTy4ctpK-kC&dq=Lan%20Hua%20Liu%20Oberlin&pg=RA1-PA672 |journal=The Congregationalist |volume=107 |pages=672}} She was responsible for handling the school's merger with a boys' school to create a co-educational school. In a 1929 letter, Luella Miner refers to Liu as "one of my college daughters", while they were working together in Shanxi.{{Cite web |title=Document 3: 1929 Letter – Digitizing American Feminisms |url=http://americanfeminisms.org/draft-women-rule-the-world-the-lives-and-impacts-of-female-missionaries/document-3-1929-letter/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |language=en}} In 1936 and 1937, she toured in the United States and Canada,{{Cite news |date=1937-01-23 |title=Mrs. Yui to Address Missionary Society; Is Dean of Women Students in Chinese University |pages=26 |work=The Toronto Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-mrs-yui-to-address-mis/135068471/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |via=Newspapers.com}} lecturing and raising funds for her work.{{Cite journal |last=Avann |first=Mrs. J. M. |date=1936 |title=In Lands Afar |url=https://archive.org/details/yearbookwomansfo1936woma/page/72/mode/2up?q=%22Mrs.+Yui%22 |journal=Year Book, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church |pages=32 |via=Internet Archive}} She visited her friend Janette O. Ferris while in the United States.{{Cite news |date=1936-11-18 |title=Mrs. Lan Hua Yui Visits Mrs. Ferris |pages=1 |work=The Roberts Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-roberts-herald-mrs-lan-hua-yui-visi/135069517/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |via=Newspapers.com}}

In the 1930s Liu was dean of women at Cheeloo University, leading the school's women during significant wartime upheaval, when much of the school fled Tsinan (Jinan) for Chengtu (Chengdu).{{Cite book |last=Corbett |first=Charles Hodge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XeYyAAAAMAAJ&dq=Cheeloo+Lan-hua&pg=PA239 |title=Shantung Christian University (Cheeloo) |date=1955 |publisher=United Board for Christian Colleges in China |pages=238–240 |language=en}} "We still retain our identity and our ideals, and are seeking to cultivate here a group who will be ready at the first opportunity to return to our real home and build up again the work which has been so sadly interrupted," she wrote in a March 1939 letter to American supporters.[https://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/UnitedBoard/Shantung_Christian_University/Box%20243/RG011-243-3984.pdf "Minutes of the Council of the Women's Unit, Tsinan (June 16, 1932)" and "Report of the Activities of Cheeloo Women for the Year 1937-38"], and other materials related to Shantung Christian University, in the collection of the Yale Divinity School. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was a treasurer and member of the National Committee of the YWCA of China.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Swc_AQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Yu%20Liu%20Lan-Hua%22&pg=PA839 |title=China Handbook |date=1937 |publisher=Macmillan |pages=839 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Y7kAAAAMAAJ&dq=Lan+Hua+Liu+Yiu&pg=PA617 |title=China Yearbook |date=1947 |publisher=China Publishing Company |pages=617 |language=en}}

Liu was in California in the mid-1940s, recovering her health,{{Cite news |date=1947-04-25 |title=Christian Education in China is Topic of Mrs. Lan Yui at WSCS Meet |pages=7 |work=Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-gatos-times-saratoga-observer-christ/135069789/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |via=Newspapers.com}} living at the Ming Quong Home in Los Gatos, and again giving lectures about her work.{{Cite news |date=1946-10-31 |title=Guest Speaker |pages=6 |work=The Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-guest-speaker/135069621/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |via=Newspapers.com}}

• "I Kao Shang Ti: The Story of a Girl, a Will and a Way" (after 1929, pamphlet){{Cite web |title=Document 4: I Kao Shang Ti – Digitizing American Feminisms |url=http://americanfeminisms.org/draft-women-rule-the-world-the-lives-and-impacts-of-female-missionaries/document-4-i-kao-shang-ti/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |language=en}}

Liu married military chaplain{{Cite book |last=Chʻêng |first=Marcus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UFkeAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sing+Ching+Yui+chaplain&pg=PA2 |title=Marshal Feng: The Man and His Work |date=1926 |publisher=Kelly & Walsh, Limited |language=en}} and educator Sing Ching Yui (Yu Xinqing) in 1928.{{Cite journal |date=April 1927 |title=News of the Alumni |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGTnAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sing%20Ching%20Yui%20chaplain&pg=PA28 |journal=Oberlin Alumni Magazine |volume=23 |issue=7 |pages=28}} They had a daughter, Hwa Hsin (Yu Huaxin). There is a collection of her correspondence in the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Records at Oberlin College.

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