17 May 2019
Retired professor is “very grateful” to Nankai University for allowing her to repay the country in this way
On May 12, renowned Chinese cultural scholar Florence Chia-ying Yeh announced a donation of 17.11 million yuan ($2.49 million) to support ancient Chinese cultural research at Nankai University.
She made the donation at the sixth Nankai University Alumni Association Forum held in Shaoxing, East China’s Zhejiang province. Yeh, 95, rarely makes public appearances and was not present at the event.
Her donation came just less than a year after she made a hefty donation of 18.57 million yuan to establish the Jialing Fund in a bid to support traditional Chinese cultural research. Yeh has donated a total of 35.68 million yuan to date.
The Chinese-born Canadian graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University in 1945, which later became part of Beijing Normal University. Yeh later became a member of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990.
In her personal statement on the alumni website, Yeh explained the source of her funds – the donation of 18.57 million yuan last year – for the first time to clarify rumors.
She said her donation last year came from two of her properties in Beijing and Tianjin and it was donated to the Nankai University Education Fund.
Yeh also said that she will donate all her copyright royalties and remuneration to Nankai to support ancient Chinese cultural research in the near future.
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