A BOY FROM CHINA
by Richard Cheng
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This book describes the life experience of the author, from three years old to his retirement at 66 years old. He was called the $240 Million Professor by Transpacific Magazine. In his youth. he had suffered from Japanese invasion of China. While his father was fighting the Japanese in the front, he and his mother had to move from one province to the other, in order to escape the invading Japanese.
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In the meantime, lots of moving and frightening events had occurred. After WWII, they escaped to Taiwan when Communists took over the mainland. He went to college and obtained a degree. During the military training he invented three small weapon control systems. After he proofed the systems worked, he was awarded a medal by then President Chiang Kai-Shek. After he served in the military, he got married and decided to go to the United States for an advanced degree. When he arrived in the U.S.A., he had only $30 in his pocket. Through working as a TV repairman, he graduated with a master’s degree. He found a teaching job and brought his wife and children over. He went on for his doctor’s degree. Upon completing his Ph.D. in 1971, he started to build the Computer Science department for colleges and universities in this nation. In 1979 he was promoted to Eminent professorship. In 1985, he quit his professorship and dipped into running a business. After six years in business, he fought and won the largest contract the federal government had awarded to a small business in 1991. A magazine called him the $240 Million Professor. He was awarded in the White House by President Bush senior in 1991. In 1992 he was sent by President Bush to China as a member in the First commercial delegation of this country. In this book, the author described his personal encounters, feelings, other interesting events and there was no dull moment.
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This is a true story of this man full of adventures and unusual encounters that are highly interesting to read.
A Professor and CEO True Story
BY RICHARD T. CHENG ‧ RELEASE DATE: AUG. 20, 2016
A gripping look at China’s historical turbulence from someone who experienced it firsthand.
personal memoir that details the hardship of political tumult in China during the first half of the 20th century.
In 1937, when Cheng (The $240 Million Professor, 2016) was only 3 years old, he and his family were forced to flee their hometown of Nanjing, due to the imminent arrival of Japanese invaders. The Chengs narrowly escaped the fate of those who chose to remain and suffered cruelty at the hands of the Japanese military. They took a boat down the Yangtze River to Chunking to start a new life, but they soon faced a series of heartbreaking trials. Cheng’s sister died from pneumonia, and then his grandmother died as well. When the family moved to a desperately poor farming village in Quay-chow, Cheng’s younger brother died from an illness due to drinking the fetid water. The author himself was nearly killed when a chillingly malicious neighbor lured him into the woods and abandoned him there. Then a colonel in the military orchestrated the theft of the family’s valuable jewels. Eventually, Japanese forces moved dangerously close, so the family fled yet again, this time back to Chunking.
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book review by Susan C. Morris
“The giant banyan trees, palm trees and banana trees dotted the landscape. The whole landscape looked so lush and green, so beautiful! Now I understand why many people called Taiwan the Treasure Island.”
Action and intrigue are plentiful in Cheng’s personal narrative of events that unfold during his childhood years in China. The book centers on the author’s tragedies and triumphs of growing up amid the turmoil of China’s 1937 war with Japan. Cheng and his family move from shelter to shelter in villages and cities throughout China to escape the Japanese encroachment. His father (BaBa), a military leader in Chiang Kai–Shek’s Nationalist Army, is called to the frontlines, leaving Cheng and his mother to fend for themselves. Cheng and his parents confront food and medical shortages, makeshift living arrangements, robberies, murders, sickness, death, and perilous journeys. No sooner than the Japanese surrender, another war is brewing: China’s civil war between the Nationalists and Communists. Mao’s Red Army advances through China, capturing major coastal cities. Subsequently, Cheng’s father is relocated to Fujian Province, the Nationalist Army’s last stronghold. Surrounded by Communist agents, the Cheng family narrowly escapes the incursion as they seek safety in Taiwan through the South China Sea.
Richard Cheng
Richard Tien-Ren Cheng was born in June 1934. Following years of his birth he was suffering from the war between China and Japan and the Chinese civil war between the Nationalist and the Communist. At the age of 15 he escaped the mainland China to Taiwan where he grew up and completed his undergraduate education. He was married in Taiwan when he went to the States for his master’s degree. Read more…
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