David Z. T. Yui
Chinese Protestant Christian leader
David Z.T. Yui (Chinese: 余日章; pinyin: Yú Rìzhāng; Wade–Giles: Yü Jih-chang; 25 November 1882, in Wuhan – 22 January 1936) was a Chinese Protestant Christian leader who led the Chinese National YMCA. in the 1920s and 1930s.
Yui was a leader in what the historian Daniel Bays called the "Sino-Foreign Protestant Establishment", a generation of Chinese Protestant Christians who worked to make Christianity independent of foreign control and relevant to the emerging Chinese nation.
Early life
David Yui's father, Yu Wenqing, was an Episcopal pastor who took his family to various parts of Eastern China as he moved from pastorate to pastorate. David was schooled at home until he was thirteen. In 1895, he entered the Boone School, which was run by the American Episcopal Church Mission in Wuhan. When the school was evacuated to Shanghai in 1900 from fear of Boxer Rebellion, the students were transferred to St. John's College, where Yui's classmates included the future diplomat Wellington Koo. Yui edited the school newspaper, the St.John's Echo. Upon graduating in 1905, he returned to Wuhan to teach at the Boone school.
In April 1905 he married Liu Qiongyin, a graduate of St.
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