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= Yang Yi (Geologist) = Yang Yi (born in 1920, Anxin - Hebei Province of Northern China) is regarded by some as the first female petroleum geologist from China. She began this pursuit in the 1940's, and weathered many instances of social and political upheaval in China through the middle of the 20th century to carve a career out for herself. She is also notable for helping create the geology department at the Petroleum Institute of China.

Early Life
Yang Yi was born in Anxin County, located in the Hebei province of Northern China. She was quite independent growing up - finding interest in subjects different from those of the people around her. Yang left her home under false pretenses at the age of 17, with the hopes of attending university in Kunming (located in China's Yunnan Province). Unfortunately, she was captured and tortured by Japanese military before she could get very far. After her family paid for her release, they moved to Shanghai, China. While there, Yang was accepted into an agricultural school in 1940. However, she ended up changing schools and switched over to the department of physics before finally switching into geology at Southwestern Associated. She graduated from this program in 1945.

Career
After the end of World War 2, Yang applied for the department of physics at Southwestern Associated University where she was promptly accepted. However, a year later she transferred to the geology program. After her graduation in 1945, Yang and her husband, (Whom she met at Southwestern University) travelled up to work in the Gobi desert which was home to the rich Yumen Oilfield. For the next two years, Yang would travel all over northern China with a team of 8 other geology graduates creating geological reports, preforming geological reports, researching fossils and even climbing to the peak of Qilian Mountain to observe ice bridges. All of this work laid the foundation for years of future exploratory work all throughout northern China. After a very successful 5 years in the field, Yang was asked to teach at Tsinghua University where she was appointed to be deputy chair of their esteemed geology department until 1957. Sadly during this year, Yang would be convicted as a rightist by the Chinese government under Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Movement. Her career was ended and her home was raided multiple times where they took all of her reports and maps that she had worked on for her whole career.

Later Life
After the overturning of her conviction in 1979, she became the co-author of two scientific publications - the "English-Chinese Geology Dictionary" and the "English-Chinese Petroleum Dictionary". Unfortunately, due to her conviction as a rightist, none of her scholarly papers remain. Yang suffered from Alzheimer’s in her later years, adding to the difficulty in recovering any of her life’s work.