Chun Kin Sing — CEM Connections

Chun Kin Sing

Pinyin & Chinese characters	Chen Qiansheng 陈亁生
Variant Spellings & Other Names	Chin Kin Sing¹
Other Chinese Names
Detachment	2
LaFargue No.	44
Date of Birth	1860
Place of Birth	Yinxian, Zhejiang
Age at Departure for U.S.	14 (Lunar Calendar)
Date of Death	1900
Place of Death	Tianjin: accidentally killed during Boxer siege.
Place(s) of residence in U.S.	Hebron, CT.
American Host Family/ies	Miss Mary Jane Post, Hebron, CT²
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Other	One of the students of the Fourth Detachment, Shen Teh Yew (Shen Deyao 沈德耀 IV, 112), who had been sent home in April 1878 for fighting, noted in a letter sent to his host family in Hebron, CT, that Chun Kin Sing had also been ordered back home for some unspecified misbehavior, probably late in the same year.³
Notes and Sources	1. Springfield Daily Republican, 26 July 1873, p. 3. 2. Rhoads (2011), p. 52, Table 5.1. 3. Rhoads (2011), p. 136, Table 9.1; p. 137.