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Line 23: '''Y. C. James Yen''' ({{lang-zh\|first=t\|t=晏陽初\|s=晏阳初\|w=Yen Yang-chʽu\|p=Yàn Yángchū}}, October 16, 1890/1893 – January 17, 1990<ref name="Fowler">{{cite news \|last=Fowler \|first=Glenn \|date=January 18, 1990 \|title=Dr. Y. C. James Yen Is Dead at 96; Led International Self-Help Group \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/18/obituaries/dr-y-c-james-yen-is-dead-at-96-led-international-self-help-group.html \|work=[[The New York Times]] \|location=New York \|access-date=May 5, 2023}}</ref>), known to his many English speaking friends as "Jimmy," was a Chinese educator and organizer known for his work in mass literacy and rural reconstruction, first in China, then in many countries. After working with Chinese laborers in France during World War I, in the 1920s Yen first organized the [[Chinese National Association of the Mass Education ~~Movements~~Movement]] to bring literacy to the Chinese masses, then turned to the villages of China to organize Rural Reconstruction, most famously at [[Dingzhou\|Ding Xian]], (or, in the spelling of the time, Ting Hsien), a county in [[Hebei]], from 1926-1937. He was instrumental in founding the [[Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction\|Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction]] in 1948, which then moved to Taiwan. In 1952, Dr. Yen organized the [[Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement]] and in 1960, he established the [[International Institute of Rural Reconstruction]].<ref name="iirr">{{cite web\|url=https://iirr.org/mission-history/ \|title=Mission and History \|website= International Institute of Rural Reconstruction \|access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref> He returned to China in the 1980s but died in New York in 1990 and buried with his wife Alice in [[Silang, Cavite]], [[Philippines]] at the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction.<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://bdcconline.net/en/stories/yan-alice-huie \| title=Yan, Alice Huie \| BDCC }}</ref>

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