Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homey sitting room, bright with embroidered cushions, painted lacquer ware and bucolic scrolls, Chen seems more like a retired and fastidious professor than the politician he is. At dinner, in accordance with the ceremonial niceties of cheng, he likes to discourse on the threefold appeal of Chinese cuisine-color, for the eye; smell, for the nostrils; taste, for the tongue. He is getting plump, is 20 pounds heavier than when he battled Communists. He is a family man. Recently, while his hospitable, bespectacled wife and four sprouting children looked on, Chen displayed a bit of simple Western technology...
Halfway to an Amalgam. He will go farther than roller skating toward Western ways, but he wants the West to try to see China's problems through Chinese eyes. When George Marshall, like many another American, last year suggested coalition with the Communists, men like Chen were shocked (although Chen has been too correct to say so). To Marshall and other Americans Communism still seems a distant threat. Chen and his friends have had the Reds breathing down their necks for 20 years. It has been war, bitter, open, accepted. Nationalist Communications Minister Yu Ta-wei accepts the fact...
...Chen: "Let me compliment you on your skill in escaping...
...gulf of misunderstanding need not always be as wide as it is now. Chen says: "The essence of life is the performance of benevolence." Although Chen, fighting fire with fire, has performed many a non-benevolent act, he means what he says. He is willing to help lead China-slowly-toward something the West might recognize as democratic and Chen would recognize as Confucian...
Americans can understand almost any Chinese leader more readily than they can understand Chen Li-fu. The two cultures come very close together in the persons of two great educators, U.S. Ambassador Leighton Stuart and Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. They stand in the middle of the bridge across the gulf. But it is not enough for some Americans to understand some Chinese. The bridge between the U.S. and China must extend all the way from such a thoroughly American mind as George Marshall's to such a completely Chinese mind as Chen's. Admittedly...