Name Wu Yi-Fang | Died 1985, Nanjing, China | |
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WU Yi-Fang吴贻芳: A Great Woman一位伟大的女性
Wu Yi-Fang (1893–1985) was one of the first women in China to hold accredited Bachelor of Arts degrees, and the first female university president in China. Her Ginling College graduating class was the first class of women to receive degrees after the Guangxu Emperor of the Qing dynasty approved education for women.
Wu attended Hangzhou Girls' School and Shanghai Qiming Girls' School, and started teaching in 1919 at Beijing Women's Higher Normal School. She earned her doctorate degree in biology and philosophy in 1928 after studying entomology at the University of Michigan in the United States. She returned to China in the same year and became the president of Ginling College, and remained the president for 23 years.
Wu was one of only four women to sign the United Nations Charter after attending the United Nations Conference in 1945.