Ying Hua (28 October 1866-10 January 1926), known as Ying Lien-chih, an eminent Catholic scholar who was the founder of the Ta Kung Pao and the lay founder of Fu-jen (Catholic) University. Born into a Manchu family in Wanp'ing, Chihli (Hopei), Ying Lien-chih showed his natural taste for literary and intellectual pursuits at an early […]

Lei Ming-yuan (19 August 1877-24 June 1940), also known as Father Vincent Lebbe, a Belgian priest and Roman Catholic missionary who became a Chinese citizen in 1927. From 1901 until his death he w^orked for the Sinification of the liturgy and the clerical hierarchy in China, his motto being "La Chine aux Chinois, et les […]