Li Ching-Yuen
In a 1930 New York Times article, Professor Wu Chung-chieh of the Chengdu University discovered Imperial Chinese government records from 1827, congratulating one Li Ching-Yuen on his 150th birthday, and further documents later congratulating him on his 200th birthday in 1877. Correspondents from the New York Times in 1928 reported that the oldest residents in Szechuan claimed that their grandfathers had known Li when they were children.