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...Direct flights were halted after the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, when Mao Zedong's Communists took control of the mainland and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang fled to the safety of the island. In recent years a limited number of direct flights were allowed during four Chinese holidays. Under the new agreement, 36 direct flights will be permitted each weekend beginning July 4. In addition, the number of mainland tourists allowed to visit Taiwan will increase from 1,000 daily...
...tourism). But just as the demographics of America have been transformed, so has the business of Chinese-American food today. Top restaurant chain P.F. Chang's China Bistro was actually founded by one Paul Fleming, its name derived from Fleming's initials and an alternative spelling of consultant Phillip Chiang's surname. The largest distributor of soy-sauce packets in the U.S., Kari-Out, is owned by a Jewish family in New York City (and Kari-Out soy sauce contains no soy). In the Los Angeles area, fortune cookies, noodles, sheets of wonton pastry and dumplings are mostly made...
After stints as an associate on Wall Street and a professor in Taiwan, Ma worked first as an English translator to then-president Chiang Ching-kuo. Later, at age 38, he became the youngest member of the cabinet when he was appointed as the chair of the Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission. He then served as the Justice Minister from 1993 to 1996, as the Mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006, and Chairman of Kuomintang from 2005 to 2007, before being elected Taiwan’s president...
...from the Hopkinton start to the Boston finish, you begin to have doubts. More than half of the course is behind you, but Heartbreak Hill still looms ahead—that steep one-half mile ascent. “My legs started falling apart,” Yuting P. Chiang ’10 says. “Little muscles I didn’t even know existed cramped up. I was about to hit Heartbreak Hill, and I was feeling dehydrated.” Chiang managed to pull through and cross the Copley Square finish line in four hours...
...island a part of China; instead, they see Taiwan as a de facto independent state and desire an identity of their own. The search for Taiwan identity also had a sharp anti-KMT edge. The KMT has historically been the party of the mainlanders who came to Taiwan with Chiang and who still hold attachments to China. Local Taiwanese islanders resented the intrusion, as well as the KMT's long dominance of the island's politics. Those Taiwanese turned...