http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Yuan-tsung+Chen Culture Yuan-tsung Chen Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=276811&ca=Culture In my book, RETURN TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, the heading of the 7th chapter is: Blending Confucius, Lincoln, and Marx, in which I explain what kind of society that Sun Yatsen, with the assistance of Eugene Chen, tried to create. It would be a harmonious society (Confucian conception summed up in the an... Writing Yuan-tsung Chen Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=276812&ca=Writing Some of what is new in my book, RETURN TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, reveals historical details about China unknown in the West, or even in China itself, for that matter. For example, I highlight my late father-in-law Eugene Chen's role in the "Russia-oriented" policy of Sun Yatsen. Eugene was the key, the... Culture Yuan-tsung Chen Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=276444&ca=Culture In my view, the current relations of US and China is like a marriage of convenience. There are so many joint ventures between them, and they would rather stay married, at least for a while, than divorce. But nothing will remain unchanged as time goes by. Sometimes affection might germinate if they k... Sports Yuan-tsung Chen Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=270205&ca=Sports My book, RETURN TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: One Family, Three Revolutionaries, and the Birth of Modern China, begins in the middle of the 19th century when China was nicknamed, by the Western Powers, as the "Sick Man of East." When Eugene Chen (my late father-in-law), fought to get rid of this label, the... Writing Yuan-tsung Chen Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=267573&ca=Writing In this article, I would like to recall how I got my manuscript through to the publisher's desk. First, of course, I had to write a saleable book, a book that could attract a broad readership. Many of the historical events described in my book, RETURN TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: One Family, Three Revolut... World Affairs Yuan-tsung Chen Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=267163&ca=World+Affairs My book, RETURN TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: One Family, Three Revolutionaries, and the Birth of Modern China, is non-fiction, but in order to bring the history alive, I had to bring the characters and places alive. I've given some idea of how I wrote three-dimensional characters previously, and now I wan...