Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Techniques of Scranton. Forty-eight-year-old Chen, like 60-year-old Chiang, was born in Chekiang province. Of eight brothers, only he and Chen Kuo-fu (eight years older and now the serene, tuberculous director of the powerful Farmers' Bank of China) are still alive. Chen's childhood was poor and insecure. But among Chen's kin was an uncle, doughty Chen Chi-mei, revolutionary general and patron of young Chiang Kaishek. On his deathbed, Uncle Chen summoned Chiang...
...Thus Chen Li-fu came under Chiang's protection in an all-important hsiao relationship. Chen went to Tientsin's Peiyang University (1919-23), diligently studied physics, mathematics, and the Chinese classics. Like many Chinese undergraduates then, he admired the Russian revolution, read Marx and Lenin...
...would-be engineer, Chen was chiefly interested in the U.S. Working his way, he studied for a year at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Mines. After his M.S. thesis, Application of Mechanical and Electrical Devices to Coal Mining in China, Chen took an even more advanced course. He signed up as a coal miner in Pittsburgh and Scranton collieries,* held a card in John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers...
...Technique of Violence. In the preface to his Pitt thesis on coal mining, Chen opened up more like a philosopher than an engineer: "In the development of any industry, the first aim is the benefit of mankind...
Back in China in 1926, Chen had some idea of benefiting mankind by applying Scranton techniques to the coal fields of Shantung. Fate-and hsiao-had more exciting work for him. He again met Chiang Kaishek, now the general of Kuomintang armies driving against the warlords, and Chiang made Chen a political aide...