Amy Ling Chen

Ling Shuhua began a pivotal time in her intellectual life when she and her sister Ling Shuhao , or Amy, enrolled in the women's college of Yanjing University , a new institution in Beijing established...

LS began her studies at home in the jiaxue tradition of family learning. She read under her older sisters who had studied at schools (following the sanctioning of formal education for girls and women...

LS's father, Ling Fupeng , was born in Panyu in 1859. He became a politician and civil servant, and died in 1934. He took several concubines, one of whom became LS's mother. Ling Fupeng supported...

LS was closest to her sister who was likely born in 1904, Ling Shuhao . When the pair began their studies together their father gave them their names, Shuhua and Shuhao . Sasha Su-Ling Welland

When Shuhao was a small girl learning English, she took the name Amy from an American Presbyterian missionary, so she was known for most of her life as Amy Ling Chen . She was...

Sasha Su-Ling Welland , Ling Shuhua 's great-niece, travelled through China and the United States to write a biography of Ling Shuhua and Amy Ling Chen (Welland's maternal grandmother) that also reflects on gender codes...