High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Y.C. James Yen 1890-1990. Yen, known to his many English speaking friends as "Jimmy," was a Chinese educator and organizer who turned to the villages of China to organize Rural Reconstruction, most famously at Ding Xian, a county in Hebei, from 1926-1937. Born in Sichuan in 1890, Yen was sent to a school run by the China Inland Mission, studied at Hong Kong University, and graduated in 1918 from Yale University, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. After graduation he went to France to join the work of the International YMCA with the Chinese Labor Corps in France workers who had been sent to support the Allies in World War I. Working with them to read and write letters, Yen recalled, he found "for the first time in my ignorant intellectual life" the value of the common people of his own country. What they lacked was education. Therefore Yen wrote a widely copied literacy primer which used 1,000 basic characters.

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