Cultural Traces Of A Diplomat: The Research On W.W.Yen And The Culture Careers From The Late Qing Dynasty To The Republic Of China

W. W. Yen is a famous diplomat of the Republic of China, his foreignexperience and political career is very prominent. But he is more well-known socialactivist, his cultural activities had a profound impact on the cultural exchangebetween China and abroad in modern history. The Academia discourse rarely for hisactivities in the cultural undertakings.W. W. Yen was born in Shanghai. His father was a Chinese Christian pastor, hestudied in America. This allowed him to have the advantage to accept the Westernculture. He then went to studied in the United States to enrich his Western culture. Atthe same time, W. W. Yen received the education of traditional Chinese culture. Hisearly years of cultural experience lay the foundation for the future cultural activities.W.W.Yen is fluent in several foreign language, best in English. He published abook in the Commercial Press. It was <an English and chinese standard dictionary>.It is the first a bilingual dictionary in modern China which was written by chinese, asit published, it caused a tremendous response, selling for decades. He also published"a manual of translation", which is the accumulation of his teaching practice in St.John’s university. He not only vigorously publicized the Western culture, also sparedthe external communication of Chinese culture no pains. He contributed to theperformance of Mei Lanfang visited the Soviet Union.He was ambassador to theSoviet, he played an important role in the success of the performances.He had high social prestige in the Republic of China, many universities havehired him as Chairman of the Board. Many universities had benefits for him, such asYenching, Tsinghua, St.john’s, Nankai. He is the closest relationship with the St.John’s University. His childhood was spent at St. John’s. He graduated from theUniversity of Virginia. Then he taught at St. John’s until1908. He began in politics.But no matter in where, W.W.Yen have not lost contact with the St. John’s University.He served the board of directors of st. john’s university in the Sino-Japanese War, heis the chairman. He got through the most difficult years together with St. John’s University. He acquainted with John Leighton Stuart. He was invited to join theboard of directors of Yenching University. He served as Chairman, provided thenecessary contacts to support the development of Yenching University. He fought alot of financial assistance for Yenching. He and Zhang boling was good friends. Hewas invited to serve as Chairman of the Board of Nankai School. He played a hugerole in the smooth development of Nankai. Tsinghua University is established by theUnited States refund The Boxer Indemnity. He succeeded Zhou ziqi as TsinghuaUniversity Chancellor. Tsinghua University was attached to the Department of State.He was in charge of the Department of State. The Tsinghua several principals has aclose relationship with him. He played a positive impact on the early development ofTsinghua. The second returned to the Boxer Indemnity was established ChinaFoundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture. W.W.Yen served as the firstpresident until1929. He was as a Director in1940until1945. He made manycontributions to China’s culture and education during his term of office. He also gavea lot of help to the business of Christianity in China. He participated in the foundingof the Shanghai YMCA. He had served as Vice President, Director-General for manyyears.In summary, W.W.Yen is a scholar-diplomat. In his diplomatic practice, heformed a special cultural outlook. He had a thorough understanding of traditionalChinese culture, He actively introduce advanced Western culture, He improved theChinese culture. His cultural outlook was together with chinese and western culturein rational conscious. He looked forward to Datong of world culture. Of course, hisculture outlook is not perfect, had its inadequacies.By describing Yen’s cultural activities, I grasp the original intention of hisculture. Then I found his cultural destination, gave to Yen’s position in the history ofcultural exchange.