Bronze statue of Juliana Young Koo unveiled
Yang Xuelan, Juliana Young Koo's daughter, donates cheongsams, earrings and a brooch of her mother to the Shanghai Humanism Memorial Museum of the Fushouyuan Cemetery.
A commemorative bronze statue of Juliana Young Koo is unveiled.
A chorus of children sing in memory of Koo.
A commemorative bronze statue of Juliana Young Koo, a legendary Chinese and American diplomat, was unveiled at the humanism memorial park of Shanghai Fushouyuan Cemetery in Qingpu District on Sunday ahead of dongzhi, the winter solstice.
Koo's daughter Yang Xuelan donated two of her favorite cheongsams, two earrings and a brooch that belonged to her mother to the Shanghai Humanism Memorial Museum inside the cemetery.
A chorus of children sang in memory of Koo, and professor Jin Guangyao of Fudan University recalled stories of the woman to commemorate her.
Koo, one of the first women to graduate from Fudan University and one of the first staff members at the UN Protocol Department, was an admired beauty in Shanghai. She married Chinese diplomat Yang Guangsheng (Clarence Kuangson Young), a Chinese consul general stationed in Manila who was executed during World War II.
She raised her three daughters and took care of widows and children of the consulate staff. After the war, she took her daughters to the United States and worked as a protocol and liaison officer at the United Nations for 13 years.
She married Chinese diplomat Wellington Koo in 1959, and died last May in New York.
