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...born in Liu Ho, China, and studied at the Central University of Nanking, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1936. The same year, she came to the United States to do graduate work at the University of California under Ernest O. Laurence, who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cyclotron...
...Revolutionary Party spokesman, introduced to us as a "man in charge of a number of functions under the Revolutionary Committee of Canton," was Liu Shou-Shien, the party's general secretary. He didn't speak English so we conversed through the Chinese interpreters...
...questions we had written down were handed back to us. Then Liu gave us the usual 15-minute "brief introduction" that preceded all the meetings and tours we had. The introduction always included a friendly welcome in behalf of the "Chinese people" and background information on how the particular group was carrying out its part of the revolutionary struggle. He finished by saying he was ready to answer any questions we wanted to ask. This didn't make sense, because the head interpreter had already told us it was okay to read the questions we had but that we couldn...
...interpreter repeated the question in Chinese to Liu. He spoke for maybe ten seconds to the interpreter, who then began speaking to us, giving no less than ten minutes of the history of China before and after the 1949 communist take-over...
...questions got the same treatment. We had almost memorized the history of the People's Republic two hours later, when the jovial Mr. Liu decided we had learned enough about the intricacies of the Revolutionary Committee and the Communist Party. He thanked us for being so attentive and commended the intelligence exhibited in our questions. Our group leader presented Liu with a set of albums recorded by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Mr. Liu and his guides filed ceremoniously out, leaving us no more aware of what goes on in the Communist Party than we had been when the meeting...