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...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...
...THIS POINT we all left the conference room to visit some of the University buildings. I found myself walking around the campus with Chia China, a man of about 60, professor of English Language and Literature. He like most of the others, was dressed in the customary simple suit of dark blue, with stand-up collar band and blue cap with visor...
...Chen Chia had gone to Harvard as a young gentleman of the old school. How could it have been otherwise? Only sons of well-to-do families could afford to travel to America and spend several years there. And when he returned home he and his colleagues were a part of the small upper crust of Chinese society...
...official observation of his birthday. Every year the Formosans disobey. This year, for the Gimo's 81st, dragon and lion dancers pranced through the streets of Taipei, and a delegation of 3,000 overseas Chinese presented gilt scrolls enumerating their achievements of the past year. Nationalist Vice President Chia-kan Yen proclaimed that Chiang's "achievements in the promotion of nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood have made him the No. 1 man in the world...
...necessary precaution, Chiang sought a Vice President who could take on more of his administrative and diplomatic burdens and take over interim control of the country if he died in office. His choice was balding, Western-educated Premier Yen Chia-kan, 61, a vigorous administrator and the author of many of Formosa's dramatic economic reforms-and yet, surprisingly, a controversial figure in the Kuomintang. Unlike most Nationalist leaders, Yen is neither a military man nor a faithful party professional; he is even accused of being ill informed about Kuomintang "party history." So wary of him is the party...