Background
She was born in Nanjing into the Yang family but was raised by her aunt and uncle.
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Buwei Yang Yang
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Education
At very young age she was sent to a school in Nanjing. The entry exam of the school asked her to write about the benefits of a girl been educated. She wrote: " Women are the mother of all the citizens".
Later she went to a single sex Roman Catholic school in Shanghai.
She was sent to Tokyo to study to become a medical doctor. Later she claimed that she only became interested in cooking after finding that Japanese food was inedible.
In 1920 she met and subsequently married the linguist Y.R. Chao.
The witnesses were Hu Shi and one other friend. Hu"s account of this simple ceremony in the newspapers the next day described the couple as a model of modern marriage for China"s New Culture generation.
Career
She was sent to Japan to attend the Tokyo Women"s Medical College. They had four daughters. The eldest, Rulan Chao (趙如蘭), helped in the writing of her book of recipes.
