Chen I-wan family history archive

☞ Xinmin Weekly: An International Person With Heart Belonging to China

(Note: Many historical photos about Jack Chen)

Told by/Chen I-wan Writer/Qian Yi-jiao (reporter, Shanghai Xinmin Weekly)

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2007-01-24/154412127690.shtml

☞ Eugene Chen: He created an steel fist on China’s Diplomocy

Posted by the “Guangzhou Website”, author: Liu Wei-ming.

Eugene Chen (Chen You-ren) (1875-1944), ancestral home was Shunde County, born in Trinidad, West Indies. In 1913 held post as legal advisor to the Ministry of Communication (of the North China’s government), then was the Chief Editor of the Peking Gazzete, an English newspaper in Peking. From 1922 he was the foreign affairs advisor to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and his English secretary. In 1926 was elected a central committee member to the 2nd Central Committee of the Nationalist Party (Guomingtang), and was assigned the Foreign Minister of the Nationalist Government. In 1931 he was elected central committee member to the 4th Central Committee of the Nationalist Party, and took the post as the Foreign Minister to the Guangzhou Nationalist Government, and later to the Nanjing Nationalist Government. In 1933 he participated the Fuzhou incident, was assigned the Foreign Minister to the Fujian People’s Government, and after its failure went into exile in Europe. He returned to Hong Kong in 1938 for activities against the Japanese invasion, was captured by the Japanese army when Hong Kong became occupied by the Japanese army. He was kept under house arrest first in Hong Kong and then taken to Shanghai. He refused several times to join Wang Jing-wei’s pro-Japanese puppet government. He passed away in Shanghai in 1944 (The paper contains a photo of Eugene Chen)