Mr. Gao has spent 30 years on traveling around and interviewing, and even in his {seventies had still worked so hard on writing and compiling materials. even in his 70s. The database of Chinese students he built has helped people to rediscover that an unusual page of history. On September 21, 2001, the Mayor of Hartford named the at day as thea memorial day of for Rong Hong and the other Chinese students. This wonderful segment of history between China and the United States has begun to draw interest from more and more researchers from in both countries.

With the combined efforts of scholars and researchers, we have gained a clearer picture of each Chinese student and their stories have become gradually more complete. got

Rong Kui defied the Qing command to return to China. He graduated from Yale and joined the Chinese embassy in the United States. More than that, he was part of a love story that became known throughout in New England. Upon high school graduation, Rong Kui was deep in love with Mary, a schoolmate of seven years his junior. It took him 10 years, however, to convince her parents. They were finally married in 1894. They had five children, and we met with their two grandsons in Austin in the autumn of 2002.

In his late writings, Rong Kui commented on the role of Chinese Educational Mission.

Once Yale's coxswain, Zhong Wenyao became a diplomat posted in to Washington DC, Madrid and Manila. Back in China, he entered into the railway industry.

Zhong was keen about on everything new, from photo cameras to cars, and was one of the first car owners in Shanghai. With four generations all studying at Yale, Zhong's family set up a scholarship at Yale University as a memorial. The scholarship is intended for for awarding scholars on researching the cultural exchanges between China and the United States. Zhong's descendants in North America still keep many items left by their grandfather.

With his outstanding writing ability, Li Enfu devoted his whole life to journalism. He sacrificed his family for when protesting against the mistreatment of Chinese in the United States. In 1897, Li had had his second marriage with Sophie from Tennessee. Their elder son, Clarence, later graduated from the US Navy Academy in Annapolis, a military school that had once {barred} Chinese students. Clarence's brother, Louis became a Yale alumnus.

In 1927, Li Enfu returned came back alone to Hong Kong at 66. In his final contact with his American friends on March 29, 1938, Li wrote that, "we are undergoing a war, an inhumane and barbarian war. Japanese warplanes awere hovering over the city and bombing us all the day. Our life could end any minute…" This year, Li Enfu passed away in Hong Kong.

Huang Kaijia, once a player of on the baseball team the "Orientals", later served as secretary to Sheng Xuanhuai for many years. Once a participant in the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, Huang was invited to the Saint Louis Exposition in 1904 as the Vice-Director of the China exhibit. On At the exposition's reception of the expo, Huang made a speech. He said, "When you close the gate to all Chinese students, Europeans are opening theirs, for they are aware what these young men mean to them. You may get what you want of many things by force, but you can never get commerce by force."

Convinced that he would not comply with the democratic disguise of the autocratic Yuan Shikai administration, Tang Shaoyi, the first premier of the Republic of China, resigned three months after taking up the job. Back in Guangdong, he became the mayor of Zhongshan County, his much-loved hometown. Around 1910, he built himself a private garden villa, Garden of Shared Joy, and which he afterwards donated it to local people afterwards. During the war with Japanese, Tang moved to Shanghai. He, was later assassinated by secret agents of the Kuomintang.

Liang Ruhao, the kid child sitting by Tang Shaoyi, served as a Mminister of Rrailways industry for both the Qing administration and the Republic of China. Afterwards, two of his sons went to the United States to receive their education, and another twosons studied in Britain. His friendship with Tang was continued, and his son married Tang's daughter.

As a graduate of Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, Ouyang Geng worked as a diplomat in for his entire career, serving as the vice Cconsul Ggeneral in San Francisco, Cconsul in Vancouver, Cconsul Ggeneral in Panama City and in Jakarta, and the Ffirst Ssecretary at the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom. In his hometown, Daling village of in Zhongshan City in Guangdong, the alley where his family lived was also home to three other consuls, and was rightly named as Consul Street.

Once a star pitcher onf the baseball team of Hartford Public High School, Liang Dunyan spent dozens of years serving Zhang Zhidong, the Viceroy of Liangjiang, and later became the Minister of External Affairs for in the late Qing administration. With Cai Shaoji, Huang Kaijia and Wu Yangzeng, Liang shared the flat of Mrs. Bartlett in Hartford. They were still in regular contact with their former landlady. Upon At Liang's the invitation of Liang, two daughters of Mrs. Bartlett, Margaret and Marie, paid him a visit and stayed in Beijing for oneyear.

This style is quite rare among top officials of the Qing administration. Wen Binzhong, one of the second group of Chinese students, once studied at Worcester Institute of Technology, Massachusetts. He later becamethe secondthe ranking official of in the Qing administration. As the uncle of the famous Song sisters, he sent Soong Ching-ling, soon-to-be the wife of Sun Yat-sen and Soong Mei-ling, who became the wife of Chiang Kai-shek, to study abroad in 1907.

Born in Hong Kong, Zhou Shouchen, of the third group of Chinese students, studied together with Tang Shaoyi at Columbia University. Resigned After he retired in Hong Kong, he made his name as a Peace Gentleman, active in charity affairs for the Hong Kong people and was awarded the a knighthood by the Queen of England. In his memoryial, a hill in Hong Kong was named in his memory.