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Morris Chang is living proof of Taiwan's ability to transform its economy. In 1985, the China-born Chang, once a long-serving executive at Texas Instruments in the U.S., was lured to Taiwan by the government as part of its effort to develop a high-tech industry. He was hired to manage a state-funded research institute, but shortly after his arrival, an influential technocrat, Li Kuo-ting, called Chang to his office and told him: "Think about how you want to start a company." The conversation led Chang, backed by state funding, to found Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
DIED. V.K. (for Vi-Kyun) Wellington Koo, 97, China-born, Columbia-educated politician and diplomat who served the Republic of China as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister (1926-27), Ambassador to the U.S. (1946-56) and vice president of the International Court of Justice at the Hague (1964-67); in New York City. The suave, elegant Koo represented his country at both the Paris peace talks that ended World War I and the 1945 San Francisco conference, where the United Nations was born...
...this flowering been perceived by those left behind in China? Perhaps it hasn't even been noticed. Four years after U.S.-based Ha Jin won a National Book Award and three years after France-based Gao Xingjian was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature, the work of these two internationally hailed Chinese authors is still largely unseen inside China. Sadly, the China-born authors now emerging on the world's literary stage remain largely unknown inside their native country. Some are still banned...
Executive Editor Ron Kriss directed this week's project with assistance from China-born Reporter-Researcher Oscar Chiang. Kriss served in South Korea while in the Army during the mid-1950s and later reported on China, then off limits to U.S. journalists, for United Press International from Tokyo. "I read Cheng's manuscript, and it knocked me out," says Kriss. "It is a powerful testament, akin to Arthur Koestler's tale of life under Soviet Communism, Darkness at Noon. It's an account of a brave woman's stubborn resistance to an overwhelmingly powerful regime." Kriss, who visited China last...
From midnight until 3 a.m. one day last week, China's seemingly tireless Premier Chou En-lai talked with a group of visiting American scholars in Peking's Great Hall of the People. China-born Journalist John McCook Roots reported to TIME on the session -probably the last such meeting before Richard Nixon arrives on Feb. 21. Some of Chou's comments...