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本书是臧英年先生的自选文章和照片。臧先生1932年出生于中国。抗战时期在四川省三台县长大，当时其父臧启芳为国立东北大学校长。1949年臧先生随父亲赴台，考入海军机械学校和台湾大学机械系，并于1962年任何应钦将军参谋兼译员。退役后，臧先生于1967年离台赴美，进入华盛顿大学攻读教育心理专业，获硕士学位，并在西雅图社区学院任心理辅导师16年。上世纪90年代初，臧先生赴中国启动控烟活动，期间成为中央电台英语节目（CCTV）的时事评论员。自1970年代初，臧先生开始为十余种报刊撰写文章，笔耕不辍，50多年来积累了几百篇时事评论、历史回顾和个人感悟。2022年，臧先生将这些文章编纂成集，自费出版。这些文字反应了臧先生在过去50多年对中美台关系发展的深刻观察，对我们理解当今的世界局势具有特殊的现实意义。

This is a collective of individual stories written by Chinese Americans currently living in Indiana, ages ranging from 6 to 70. They are retired scientists, working researchers, company employees, college students, middle school and elementary school students as well as kindergartners. As all written before the year end, these stories faithfully recorded how we lived through this chaotic year, including individual actions and community effort to fight the pandemic, to help each other and front line works. This is a very timely book and the first of its kind, that reflects a community of first and second generation of immigrants. It is a piece of real history for the record.

Born in 1950 in a well know intellectual family in China, the author grew up and live through the turmoil of a series of political movements culminating in the Culture Revolution (1966-1976) when he was sent to hard labor in the hinder-land and impecunious mountains in Shanxi province where he learned the hard reality of Chinese peasants. Returning to Beijing three years later with a different perspective, he made friends with many with same world view and self-taught youth, including some died of tragic death and others got rich years later. From his own experience, the author painted a sketch in this book, with his keen eyes and succinct style of writing, his generation of "lost youth", how these "orphan youth" lived through the chaos, what they have learned, and how the lifelong friendship developed.

The year 1978 was significant in modern Chinese history because that is when Deng Xiaoping initiated a series of major moves that led directly to the rise of China in the following four decades. One of those moves was to hold nationwide exams for entrance into graduate schools based only on merit. During the twelve years leading up to 1978, no graduate-level university entrance exams were conducted in China. This book is a collection of the memoirs of the former students who were successful in those exams and who were admitted to the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1978. The oldest of these authors is seventeen years older than the youngest. Such a large age range among the same cohort of students is unusual, but it is a natural consequence of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). During these years, schools and universities in China were closed, so many of those who were successful in the nationwide exams held in 1978 had had their undergraduate education before or at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. The experiences recorded in this volume are as varied as the backgrounds and fields of endeavor of the authors. Some of these articles have been written by former students who had their subsequent careers in China, so they are giving readers a glimpse into the rise of China over the past forty years. Other memoirs in this volume were written by the very first Chinese students who went abroad for graduate study without government sponsorship. The trickle of students going overseas that began in 1980 later became a stream and has grown into a tide today. An explanation of the combined work of three key figures that helped to unleash this tide has also been included. The editors of this book are honored to include a succinct note by Mary Van de Water, who initiated this movement. Indeed, many Chinese students are in her debt.

The year 1978 was significant in modern Chinese history because that is when Deng Xiaoping initiated a series of major moves that led directly to the rise of China in the following four decades. One of those moves was to hold nationwide exams for entrance into graduate schools based only on merit. During the twelve years leading up to 1978, no graduate-level university entrance exams were conducted in China. This book is a collection of the memoirs of the former students who were successful in those exams and who were admitted to the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1978. The oldest of these authors is seventeen years older than the youngest. Such a large age range among the same cohort of students is unusual, but it is a natural consequence of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). During these years, schools and universities in China were closed, so many of those who were successful in the nationwide exams held in 1978 had had their undergraduate education before or at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. The experiences recorded in this volume are as varied as the backgrounds and fields of endeavor of the authors. Some of these articles have been written by former students who had their subsequent careers in China, so they are giving readers a glimpse into the rise of China over the past forty years. Other memoirs in this volume were written by the very first Chinese students who went abroad for graduate study without government sponsorship. The trickle of students going overseas that began in 1980 later became a stream and has grown into a tide today. An explanation of the combined work of three key figures that helped to unleash this tide has also been included. The editors of this book are honored to include a succinct note by Mary Van de Water, who initiated this movement. Indeed, many Chinese students are in her debt.

This is an autobiography of a track and field high jump coach who were born in Shanghai China in 1930th. While studying to be an engineer, he became an athlete by accident. In the "great leap forward", he sustained knee injury and was arranged to teach young athletes and was successful. In a series political movements, he and his family suffered great physical and mental stress. Fortunately, his life took a sharp turn after followed his wife and daughter to immigrate to America in 1980th. In years of persistent learning and trying, he coached a number of top American young athletes and some of them went to Olympic and won top prizes in national competitions.

One of the great narratives of the last century is the rise of China on the world stage. The advance of medical sciences has played a pivotal role in this process, through vastly improving the health of China's people. This achievement was facilitated by the many Chinese medical educators who brought western medicine to their homeland in the early 1900s and educated thousands of Chinese youth to be medical doctors in the Nationalist era. To this date, almost all published material about the history of the development western medicine in China focused on a particular time period, specific medical fields, or certain medical institutes. But also of vital importance were the people who worked to make it happen. Without their extraordinary efforts, the development of Western medicine in China couldn't have been sustained though the tumultuous periods of war and the complicated politics leading to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Dr. Chung Un Lee is one of those Chinese medical educators who played an important role. He started working in the Department of Medicine at PUMC in 1923, after he finished his medical training in England. Over the next fourteen years he rose from an Assistant in Medicine to the rank of Associate Professor. In 1937, when the war broke out between China and Japan, Dr. Lee left PUMC for Southwest China and founded the National Kweiyang Medical College to contribute to the resistance effort. Over those eight difficult years, he helped educate thousands of doctors, nurses, and health professionals who later became the foundation of medical education and the health care system in southwest China. Because of his integrity and experience, Dr. Lee was selected by the PUMC Trustees to be their new Director on March 12, 1947, and took the lead in reopening PUMC after the war. With financial support from the China Medical Board, he reorganized faculties, staffs, and students during the difficult post-war chaos. PUMC was reopened in October of 1948, and quickly returned its academic standards back towards pre-war levels.Dr. Lee's career was abruptly interrupted after 1949 and he was labelled a "Rightest" by the communists in 1957 and demoted to Yunnan Province where he died in 1962. Since that time, his name and his accomplishments were purposefully forgotten. Very few at PUMC today have even heard of Dr. Chung Un Lee, president for 10 of its 100 year history and the first one who was Chinese. There is little information about the reopening of PUMC in 1947, which has rebuilt its foundation to become the best medical school in China today. These facts have never been recorded, partly because studying the original archives and published materials requires a dedicated scholar who is well versed in English and Chinese and also has an excellent knowledge of medicine. This is a daunting task. As time passes on, it becomes more urgent to document these important records of the development of medical education at this pivotal turning point in Chinese history.

In recent years, China has emerged from being a developing country to be an economic power house. More and more U.S. companies, including several from Indiana, have been investing and distributing in China because of its enormous market size and the largest population in the world. At the same time, growing numbers of Chinese tourists have been traveling to the U.S., mainly to the coastal cities and popular tourist sites. Although less visited by Chinese tourists, during this time Indiana did become a sister state with Zhejiang Province in 2009. Indianapolis then became the sister city of Hangzhou in 2014 and now over 10 Indiana cities have established sister cities in China.Even more encouraging, Indiana Universities have attracted many Chinese students in recent years. In 2015, Chinese students accounted for 31.2% of the entire international student population in the U.S, reaching 304,040 which almost tripled the number from five years earlier. Of that total, around 4,000 enrolled at Purdue University and over 3,000 at Indiana University. Thousands more enrolled in other universities and high schools in Indiana. All of this has had a strong economic impact on those local communities.At the same time, both the growing local Chinese community and families connected back in China have become more interested in the history, culture, and economy of Indiana - the Crossroad of America. Chinese people love to read and learn. Unfortunately, there has not been enough literature or information about Indiana written in Chinese language to satisfy their curiosity.Asian American Today, a non-profit-organization, is in a unique position to introduce Indiana to the Chinese people in their language. In fact, one of our missions is to help Chinese immigrants immerse into main stream American society and publishing these articles and the book helps us achieve that objective. In 2013, Asian American Today began publishing a series of articles designed to introduce various aspects of Indiana life to the Chinese community, including state parks, museums, culture and history. A few of these articles were even republished in the Wenhui Reader's Weekly (circulation 50,000) and in the Airport Journal in Shanghai (circulation 100,000). These published articles have heightened the curiosity of Chinese people at both sides of the ocean. To follow this pursuit, we decided to publish a book in Chinese about the Hoosier state, entitled "Indiana Stories", with in-depth coverage of everything that would interest Chinese readers.We are very proud that "Indiana Stories" was approved as a Legacy Project for the Indiana Bicentennial Celebration. The scope of this book covers the geography, history, nature, culture and people of Indiana, with a special emphasis on its uniqueness in America. Many scholars, scientists, and professionals, who were first-generation Chinese immigrants or visiting scholars, participated in this project. As the first of its kind, we believe that this book will attract broad interest amongst Chinese students, businesses, tourists and the local Chinese community. In return, as this knowledge propagates, Indiana may become even more of a focus for Chinese to study and travel, as well as a place to invest.

This is a collecting of research journal articals (English), articals published on journals (Chinese) and newspapers, speeches, letters, and diary (1958-1962) by Dr. Chung-un Lee, the founder of Guiyang Medical College and the first Chinese President of the Peking Union Medical College.

This is a comprihensive chronical of Dr. Chung-un Lee (1894-1962), the first Chinese President of Peking Union Medical College and the founder of National Guiyang Medical College during the anti-Japaness war. The book encompasses the Dr. Lee's articles & dairy, archive materials, journal articles and record of witness interviews.