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 […]

Lo Lung-chi (1896-7 December 1965), Westerneducated political scientist who gained prominence in China as the editor of the I-shih pao and the Peking Ch'en Pao. During the Sino-Japanese war he became prominent in the China Democratic League. After 1949, he served the Central People's Government, becoming minister of timber industry in 1956. As a senior […]

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 […]

Lao Nai-hsuan (r843-21 July 1921), government official, Neo-Confucian scholar, and historian known for his scholarly account of the origins of the Boxer movement. Although T'unghsiang, Chekiang, is often given as Lao Nai-hsuan's native place, his family had lived in Soochow, Kiangsu, since his paternal grandfather's day. Lao was born in the home of his maternal […]