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Nancy M. Cline, Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, signed the agreement on Sunday with Professor Cheng Huan-wen, director of Sun Yat-Sen University Library in Guangzhou, China...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hilles Donates Books To China | 10/27/2004 | See Source »

Brainard said Sun Yat-Sen, also known as Zhongshan University, obtained the donation through contacts at the Harvard-Yenching Library, after it heard that Hilles’ collection would be dismantled...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hilles Donates Books To China | 10/27/2004 | See Source »

...charmed, glamorous destiny seemed to await Mei-ling from the moment she was born into a remarkable family. (Her sister Soong Ching-ling would marry Sun Yat-sen, modern China's founder.) Their father, C.J. (Charlie) Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of Methodist evangelists in North Carolina, returned to China intending to be a missionary but became an entrepreneur instead. Mei-ling attended high school in Macon, Ga. She eventually returned home armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley, the vestiges of a Southern drawl and so little Chinese that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK, 1898-2003: A Flower Made of Steel | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...using a technique developed by Dr. James Grifo at New York University, Dr. Zhuang Guanglun of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou took the patient's fertilized egg, scooped out the chromosome-bearing nuclear material and put it in a donated egg whose nucleus had been removed. In this more benign environment, development proceeded normally, and the woman became pregnant with triplets who carried a mix of her DNA and her husband's--pretty much like any normal baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tough Ethical Call | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...charmed, glamorous destiny seemed to await Mei-ling from the moment she was born into a remarkable family. (Her sister Soong Ching-ling would marry Sun Yat-sen, modern China's founder.) Their father, C.V. "Charlie" Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of kindly Methodist evangelists in North Carolina, returned to China intending to be a missionary but instead became an entrepreneur. Mei-ling, at the age of 11, entered high school in Macon, Georgia. Nine years later, she returned home armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley College, the vestiges of a Southern drawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Singular Woman | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

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