Ying Mei Chun

Chun was from Hong Kong. She attended the McTyeire School in Shanghai, and graduated from Wellesley College in 1913.^[1][2] She took additional certification training in physical education in New York.^[3][4] Chun was chair of the woman's department of the Chinese Student Christian Association in North America in 1911.^[5] She was secretary of the Wellesley Alumnae Association chapter in Shanghai.^[6]

After graduating from college in the United States, Chun was director of the physical department of the Shanghai YWCA.^[7][8] She taught in the physical education program at Ginling College.^[9][10] and at "eight or ten girls' schools" in Shanghai,^[11] working as co-teacher and translator with American missionary educators Henrietta Thomson and Abby Shaw Mayhew.^[12][13] "Never have I seen such a living dynamo of energy as Miss Chun in the class-room," wrote fellow Wellesley College alumna Sophie Chantal Hart in 1919. "Her girls worked so joyously with such concentration and zest that it set your blood racing to watch them."^[14] She used dances and games to organize exercise activities, according to former students.^[15] She left teaching to marry.^[16]

While in the United States for school, Chun attended the Silver Bay conference of the YWCA.^[5] In 1915, she attended an international YWCA conference in Los Angeles.^[17] Another Wellesley alumna, Edith Stratton Platt, visited Chun and her family in 1922.^[18]

• "A Wedding in South China" (1912)^[19]

In 1918, Chun married Dao Dan Yang Lin, a forestry professor at Nanking University.^[14] They had three children, including daughter Lin Peifen (also known as Peifen Kupferman or Peggy Lin), a choreographer and dance educator who married American composer Meyer Kupferman.^[10][20] Chun died in 1938, in Canton, in her late forties.^[3]