Word: chen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's most distinguished diplomats, David K..E. Bruce. Last week the Chinese government reciprocated. As its first envoy to Washington, Peking chose a close associate of Premier Chou En-lai who also ranks as a full member of the Communist Central Committee. He is Huang Chen...
...page paper seems largely a collection of features. A typical assignment for the staff might call for something as timely as coverage of changes in Chinese education. "In such a case," explains Chen Chun, one of the paper's seven chief editors, "we would send out dozens of our cadres all over the country to universities and middle schools to investigate the situation there. Then there would be an article written collectively"-a process that can take up to a month. Once completed, People's Daily articles carry headlines noted for their painful solemnity: HOW TO TRANSFORM ONESELF...
...wizard of the wok is an entrepreneuse of major proportions. Her 400-seat restaurant overlooking the Charles River grosses $1,000,000 a year; a second Joyce Chen's will open next month, also in Cambridge. She distributes her own line of Chinese cookware, retailed through such outlets as New York City's Abercrombie & Fitch, St. Louis' Famous-Barr and Boston's Jordan Marsh. More than 70,000 copies of The Joyce Chen Cook Book have been sold since it first appeared a decade ago. Mrs. Chen performs on her own Julia Child-style television show...
...Chen's import franchise fell into her lap when she got a visa to visit relatives in China last year. Liao Chia-Jeng, a brother who was killed in the Shanghai Rising of 1928, had become a popular Communist hero. When Chinese officials realized that Liao was her brother, they let her travel unescorted throughout the country for two months, asked her to be an adviser to the Chinese Board of Trade and granted her the import concession...
...left China in 1949 with her husband, an importer, and together they opened a restaurant in Cambridge. Since then Mrs. Chen, now 55, has learned to take the sweet with the sour. She divorced her husband in 1966; later he and his new Japanese bride opened a Japanese restaurant not far from the present Joyce Chen's. In addition, six of Mrs. Chen's former chefs have left over the years to open restaurants of their own. She does not object to training future competitors. In fact, she is negotiating with the Labor Department...