St. John's University was a Christian university in Shanghai. It was founded in 1879 by American missionaries.
St. John's College on Jessfield Road
St. John's University in 1905
A bookplate of the university library
Lin Yutang
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Lin Yutang was a Chinese writer, linguist, and inventor. A prolific bilingual writer in both Chinese and English, he was celebrated for pioneering a humorous prose style in modern Chinese literature a
St. John's University, Shanghai
…Kwan Sung-sing (1892–1960), architect, "father of track and field in Taiwan" Lin Yutang (1895–1976), writer Liu Hongsheng (1888–1956), industrialist, known as the "King of Matches…
Lin photographed in 1939 by Carl Van Vechten
Lin Yutang House in Taipei
Lin Yutang as pictured in The Most Recent Biographies of Chinese Dignitaries