Word: chen
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From the looks of his resumé, Republican strategist Lanhee J. Chen ’99 might seem like a professional flip-flopper...
...Chen, who holds three Harvard degrees and is working on his fourth, has also fashioned a career as a political insider, working for two presidential campaigns, a Washington think tank, and a K Street lobbying group...
...past decade, Chen has found ways to integrate his interests inside the classroom and inside the Beltway...
...Tiananmen crackdown hardened many students' resolve to stay abroad. When the pro-democracy protests escalated in Beijing, Chen joined other expatriate Chinese students in their own demonstrations. After earning his Ph.D. in genetics, he stayed in Japan, developing biotech products for Japanese companies. But three years ago, Chen decided that he, too, should profit from China's economic boom. The possible taint of his Tiananmen activism had worn off; plenty of other former protesters were now striking it rich back home. Today, Chen helms a consulting company that helps Japanese pharmaceutical firms conduct clinical trials in China. "Without us, Japanese...
...Chen's adopted city of Kobe has tied its future to China. Since the mid-19th century, Kobe, like the Japanese cities of Yokohama and Nagasaki, has been home to a small Chinatown, a legacy of the Chinese sailors and merchants who flocked to its once thriving port. By the early 1900s, tens of thousands of Chinese were living in Japan, often running restaurants or traditional Chinese medicine shops. But life wasn't easy. When a killer earthquake leveled Tokyo in 1923, non-Japanese residents were unfairly blamed for poisoning the water supply. Japanese mobs killed thousands of ethnic Chinese...