Word: chen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Chen Yi, 71, Chinese Foreign Minister since 1958 and longtime intimate of Mao Tse-tung; of intestinal cancer; in Peking. Like Chiang Kaishek. Chen honed his formidable military talents at Canton's Whampoa Military Academy. He then joined Chiang's famed 1926 Northern Expedition to defeat the warlords and reunify China. After the split between the Kuomintang and the Communists the following year, Chen excelled as Mao's kuai-tsu-shou (hatchet man). He led Mao's rear guard during the Long March, and commanded the New Fourth Army in its fight against the Japanese...
...keeps both the conversation and the guests circulating affably is the club's founder, a witty, white-haired retired lawyer named Percy Chen, 70. Born in Trinidad into a wealthy, land-owning Chinese family, Chen is an atypical apologist for the People's Republic. He studied at University College in London and did his legal apprenticeship at the Middle Temple, one of London's prestigious Inns of Court. Even today, his accent is impeccably British, and he speaks very little Chinese...
Making Friends. A visit to China in 1926 as a tourist extended into a permanent stay when Chen realized that he "had come home." He was given a post in the Nationalist foreign ministry, of which his father, Eugene Chen, was the head. He became increasingly disenchanted with the inability of the Nationalists to cope with China's "15th century conditions" and gave his support to the Communists. In 1947, he established a private law practice in Hong Kong...
...Overseas Chinese," says Chen. "For 45 years I have tried to work for the good of my motherland. The old warlord China was a burden on the world. Now China can help others. I think it is ready to play a positive and constructive role...
Because of the coldness in Sino-American relations, Chen until this year refused to let U.S. citizens attend the Marco Polo dinners. The rules have now been changed so that American residents of Hong Kong who have visited the mainland can join the club. The list of eligibles is certain to expand soon. In Chen's cheery words, "As more and more friends are made, the club will continue to grow...