West Meets East - The Life of Eugene Chen 1875-1944

by walton look lai

Overview

This historical biography is a forgotten chapter in the drama of Republican China of the 1920s and 1930s.  It recounts the story of EUGENE CHEN, an overseas Chinese lawyer, who rose from diaspora obscurity to China's diplomatic and political hieghts in the Nationalist period.  From son of Chinese immigrants in a remote British island colony in the Americas, he rose to become one of Republican China's foremost progressive figures and someone whose memory is still revered in the China of today.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165516719
Publisher:	Cathay Books
Publication date:	03/15/2023
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Walton Look Lai has published several books on the Asian Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar; The Chinese in the West Indies; and The Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean.  Now retired, he taught History at Rutgers University and City University of New York, as well as the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago.   He studied History at New York University and Law at St John’s College, Oxford.