Ying Mei Chun (; – August 17, 1938) was a Chinese physical educator, based in Shanghai.
Early life and education Chun was from Hong Kong. She attended the McTyeire School in Shanghai, and graduated from Wellesley College in 1913.Wellesley College, Legenda (1913 yearbook): 69. She took additional certification training in physical education in New York.Littell-Lamb, Elizabeth A. "Gospel of the Body, Temple of the Nation: The YWCA Movement and Women's Physical Culture in China, 1915-1925" (December 2007): 180. Chun was chair of the woman's department of the Chinese Student Christian Association in North America in 1911. She was secretary of the Wellesley Alumnae Association chapter in Shanghai.
Career After graduating from college in the United States, Chun was director of the physical department of the Shanghai YWCA. She taught in the physical education program at Ginling College."Minutes of the Board of Directors of Ginling College" (October 28 and 29, 1932): 29. and at "eight or ten girls' schools" in Shanghai, working as co-teacher and translator with American missionary educators Henrietta Thomson and Abby Shaw Mayhew. "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." She used dances and games to organize exercise activities, according to former students. She left teaching to marry.
While in the United States for school, Chun attended the Silver Bay conference of the YWCA. In 1915, she attended an international YWCA conference in Los Angeles. Another Wellesley alumna, Edith Stratton Platt, visited Chun and her family in 1922.
Publications "A Wedding in South China" (1912)
Personal life In 1918, Chun married Dao Dan Yang Lin, a forestry professor at Nanking University. 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. Chun died in 1938, in Canton, in her late forties.
References
External links Ying Mei Chun in her academic cap and gown, in the frontispiece of the September 1915 issue of Woman's Work in the Far East, a quarterly publication of the Presbyterian Mission Press in Shanghai