Word: chen
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...Winner. At the same time that the Chinese have moved to minimize the influence of Moscow, which Peking seems to regard as the big winner in the Communist victory in Indochina, they have been making some unprecedented gestures toward the big loser, the U.S. Two weeks ago, Huang Chen, chief of the Chinese liaison office in Washington, gave a sumptuous banquet for Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and several other liberal Democratic Senators. With unusual directness, the Chinese ambassador told the legislators that he thought the U.S. should retain a strong military posture in the world to guard against...
Returned Notes. Ford also instructed Kissinger to request the People's Republic of China to help persuade the Cambodians to release the crew and ship. Later in the day, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Ingersoll asked Huang Chen, head of the Chinese liaison office in Washington, to transmit a note to the Cambodians, demanding immediate release. George Bush...
...Chen is also helping set up a bilingual "hotline" wh'ct will aim at the problems of Chinese teenagers. In the last two years, the Chinese community has seen its first rise in juvenile delinquency. The Chinese have traditionally valued education--many immigrants came here expressly for better educational opportunities. Traditions within families arise when children, handicapped by their lack of English, fail to live up academically to their parents' expectations...
Charlotte Chen, who is president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association, teaches Mandarin in the Saturday program. Her students are mostly second-generation Chinese who already know English. They want to learn the official Chinese dialect because of their interest in keeping their culture and heritage alive in this country. But Chen--who has always attended English-language schools, though she grew up in Taiwan--acts as more than a teacher. "It's a mutual thing," she says. "I never think of helping anyone. It's more than that. I work with high school girls, and we share...
This year Chen coordinated China Night, an event that Big-qu Chin initiated three years ago. Students from colleges all over the Boston area, along with one or two big-name stars from Hong Kong, present an evening of Chinese culture and entertainment. The money from the ticket sales goes to 11 different volunteer organizations in Chinatown that perform social services for the community...