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When Yen returned to the United States for the treatment of a gastric ulcer in the 1950s, it was Buttner who acted as his surgeon at New Haven Hospital. [6] Yen had eight grandchildren. During the three years of Great Chinese Famine, Yen's rations were provided by the government for his position as a “senior intellectual”. He consistently ...
A major influx of new Chinese residents occurred in the 1950s, after the conclusion of the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949. [7] Chinatown remained a popular dining destination throughout the 1940s and 1950s. [9] A new restaurant, the Three Chinese Sisters, opened in 1949 [13] and quickly became a Cleveland dining landmark. [6]
Yen was born in Taipei, Taiwan to 嚴慶齡 Yen Ching-ling and 吳舜文 Vivian Shun-wen Wu. [2] He attended secondary school at Tsai-Hsing High School in Taipei's Muzha District [3] and later went to boarding school at The Pennington School. [4] He attended Rider University in the United States where he studied business administration. [5]
[6] [17] [18] On 20 May 1978, Yen resigned and was succeeded by Chiang's son, KMT Chairman and Premier Chiang Ching-kuo. Yen served as chairman of the Council on Chinese Cultural Renaissance during his presidency. [19] Though he wished to resign after leaving the presidency, the organization's bylaws were amended so that Yen could retain the ...
The Gin, [2] or Jing people, [3] (Chinese: 京 族, Sino-Vietnamese: Kinh tộc; Vietnamese: người Kinh tại Trung Quốc) are a community of descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living in China. They mainly live in an area called the Jing Islands (京族三岛), off the coast of Dongxing, Fangchenggang, in the Chinese autonomous region ...
The Joe Boys, or JBS (also known as Chung Ching Yee, Chinese: 忠精義), was a Chinese American youth gang founded in the 1960s in San Francisco's Chinatown. The Joe Boys were originally known as Joe Fong Boys, after its founder Joe Fong , a former member of the Wah Ching .
Kong Yen is the largest producer of Taiwanese black vinegar. According to Bon Appetit , compared to Chinese black vinegars it is "simpler, fruitier, and cleaner." [ 26 ] Taiwanese soy paste is a soy sauce based paste thickened with rice flour and sugar. [ 27 ]
Shen Yun promotes itself as "a presentation of traditional Chinese culture as it once was: a study in grace, wisdom, and virtues distilled from five millennia of Chinese civilization". The company is described in promotions as reviving Chinese culture following a period of assault and destruction under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).