In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a patriotic overseas Chinese named Zhang Zhenxun. He once heard the French say that they wanted to build a winery in Yantai, Shandong Province, after the partition of China, because the quality of grapes produced there was very good. He thought: Why can't the Chinese utilize the land and products in China? Later, he went to Yantai and founded the Zhangyu Wine Company, which produced more than 20 kinds of red and white wines, which were so delicious that they were popular not only in China but also overseas. At the 1915 Universal Exposition, Zhang Yu's famous wines such as Gold Medal Brandy and Riesling won the Gold Medal.
II. Li Teng-hui, the second president of Fudan University
Li Teng-hui (Teng Fei) was born in Tongan, Fujian Province, and his parents were overseas Chinese in the Nanyang Islands. He was born in Java in the summer of 1873, moved to Singapore in 1887 to study, went to the United States in 1891 to study, and returned to the Nanyang Islands in 1897 after graduating from Yale University to engage in the education of overseas Chinese and to participate in the propaganda work of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's advocacy of the revolution overseas. Inspired by Mr. Sun's help, he became more patriotic and returned to China in 1905, where he and his American classmate Yan Huiqing founded the Huanqiu Chinese Students' Association in Shanghai, and participated in the U.S. Goods Boycott Campaign initiated by Zeng Shaoqing, which was a campaign against the U.S. empire's mistreatment of Chinese nationals and Chinese workers, and engaged in international propaganda work. At that time, Zeng Shaoqing introduced him to Ma Liang (Xiang Bo), the founder of Fudan Public School, and he became the chief instructor of Fudan (i.e. the provost nowadays), and also taught in the Chinese Public School. In 1907, the Qing government recruited foreign students from Jiangnan and appointed him as the chief examiner. During the 1911 Revolution, he was also the chief writer of the English-language newspaper ****Ho for international propaganda. During the 1911 Revolution, he was also the chief writer of the English-language newspaper ****Ho for international propaganda. When the army of the 1911 Revolution rose, he was invited by Governor Li Yuanhong of the Wuhan military government to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs, but he politely declined on the grounds that he "could not be a government official". In 1913, Ma Xiangbo, the supervisor of Fudan, retired in his old age and was succeeded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the chairman of the school board. In 1917, Fudan Public School was expanded into Fudan University.
Li Teng-hui was engaged in education after his return to China in 1905 and presided over Fudan University until the eve of the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which lasted for 40 years. His children died in his middle age, and he was later widowed, so he made the school his home. The Kuomintang government repeatedly invited him to be a "legislator", but he always refused, and concentrated on education. In November 1947, he died in his Shanghai apartment at the age of seventy-five.
Three. Chen Jiageng
October 21, 1874, Chen Jiageng was born in Fujian Tongan County, Jimei Town, an ordinary merchant family. In his early years, he went to Nanyang with his father to run business and industry, has opened more than 30 factories, more than 100 stores, more than 10,000 acres of rubber and pineapple plantations, employing tens of thousands of workers, so that the family has a lot of money. But living overseas, he never forgets the motherland. As early as in his youth, Chen Jiageng was determined to dedicate himself to the country and save the people from the fire. In 1910, he joined the League of Leaguers, cut off his pigtails, and took part in the wave of the Xinhai Revolution. He successively raised more than 200,000 yuan for Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities. After the failure of the Xinhai Revolution, Chen Jiageng believed that only by improving the quality of national education could he save the toiling masses from the fire, so he vigorously organized education. In his hometown of Jimei, he set up primary and secondary schools, teacher training, commerce, aquaculture, navigation, agriculture, etc. In 1921, he founded Xiamen University, which was the only university in Fujian Province at that time. In 1921, he founded Xiamen University, which was the only university in Fujian Province at that time. In the 16 years from 1921 to 1937, he covered the start-up and regular expenses of Xiamen University to the tune of 4 million yuan. Before his death, he had deposited more than 3 million yuan in the country, all of which was donated to the country for the development of education. A considerable portion of the money he donated to education throughout his life was financed when he was in financial difficulties, and when the company he ran had been forced to go out of business, he still borrowed from the bank to keep the school afloat. Mao Zedong once praised him as "the flag of the overseas Chinese and the light of the nation".
Qian Xuesen's story "I have always believed: I will be able to return to my motherland, and today, I am finally back!" This is China's famous scientists and rocket experts Qian Xuesen on October 8, 1995 from the United States back to Guangzhou, to receive his comrades of the China Travel Service said a million emotional words. Returning to China with him were his wife and two young children. Qian Xuesen went to the United States in August 1935 as a publicly funded student to study and research aeronautical engineering and aerodynamics. Before returning to China, he served as director of the Supersonic Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and director of the Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Research Center. On October 1, 1949, the first five-star red flag flew over Tiananmen Square, and five days later, the first five-star red flag flew over Tiananmen Square. Five days later was the Mid-Autumn Festival, the traditional festival of our nation. On this day, Mr. and Mrs. Qian Xuesen and a dozen of Chinese students celebrated this festival together, enjoying the moon and pouring out their feelings, y rejoicing over the new birth of the motherland, and full of longing for the bright future of the motherland. At this time, Qian Xuesen's heart developed a strong desire: return to the motherland as soon as possible, with their own expertise for national construction services. Just at this time, the Korean land lit up the beacon of war. The U.S. imperialists, as the instigator of this war, are stirring up a crazy anti-*** political countercurrent in their country, and censorship and threatened censorship of personnel in universities and other institutions are occurring almost every day. This countercurrent, without exception, has also reached the California Institute of Technology. As a result of the arrest of Weinbaum, the secretary of the college's Marxist-Leninist group, the suspicions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) fell upon Ch'ien, and in July, 1950, the U.S. government decided to disqualify Ch'ien from classified research on the grounds that he was friends with Weinbaum, and to charge him with being a member of the U.S. * * * * Proletarian Party and with being in the country illegally. All of these baseless charges were dismissed by Ch'ien. However, Ch'ien could no longer bear all this and decided to return immediately to his native country on the pretext of visiting his relatives, ready to leave without returning. He met with Kimble, the undersecretary of the U.S. Navy, who was in charge of his research work, and made a solemn statement to Kimble that he was ready to go back to China immediately. Kimble was shocked to hear this. He thought, "Qian Xuesen is worth five divisions wherever he is placed." He also shouted, "I'd rather have him shot than let this guy leave the United States!" So as soon as Qian Xuesen walked out of his office, Kimble immediately notified the INS. Unknowingly, Qian Xuesen made all the preparations to return to his home country, went through the procedures to return to his home country, bought a plane ticket from Canada to Hong Kong, and handed his luggage over to a porter for shipment. However, just two days before they intended to leave Los Angeles, that is, August 23, 1950 midnight, suddenly received a notice from the Immigration Department - the family is not allowed to leave the United States. At the same time, U.S. Customs detained all of Ch'ien's luggage. Ch'ien was forced to return to the California Institute of Technology, where the FBI was sent to monitor his family and all his movements. Far from it, on September 6, Ch'ien was suddenly and illegally detained by the FBI and sent to the INS detention center. In the detention center, Ch'ien was tortured like a criminal. Ch'ien Hsueh-sen once recalled: "Within 15 days of being detained, he lost 30 pounds of weight. At night the secret agents came every hour to wake me up by shouting, totally deprived of rest, and mentally thrown into a state of extreme tension." After Ch'ien's unjustified detention, the students and faculty of the California Institute of Technology and Ch'ien's teacher, Von Karmen, as well as a number of friendly Americans, lodged a strong protest with the INS, found him a defense attorney, and raised $15,000 in bail to get Ch'ien out of jail. From then on, Qian Xuesen continued to be persecuted by the Immigration Bureau, and his movements were restricted by the Immigration Bureau and monitored by FBI agents, who did not allow him to leave Los Angeles, where he lived, and questioned him regularly. Ch'ien lost his freedom for five years. However, Qian Xuesen's love for the motherland of the heart but more fervent. He missed the new China day and night, he insisted on the struggle, and constantly put forward to the Immigration Bureau to leave the United States to return to China. Can not return to the country of Qian Xuesen, in those five years he did not stop researching his love and dedication to the cause of science. At that time, the U.S. government prevented him from leaving the U.S. because the rocket technology he studied was related to the national defense of the motherland, and it wanted to block the development of science and technology of the new China by detaining him. When Qian Xuesen realized this, he was furious. So, he chose a new specialty of "engineering cybernetics" to study, in order to help remove the obstacles to return to China. After efforts, in 1954 in English wrote more than 300,000 words of "engineering cybernetics". In fact, engineering cybernetics and production automation, and the development and use of electronic computers, and national defense construction are closely related, only that the U.S. authorities did not recognize this is. Qian Xuesen's struggle to return to his motherland was also cared for and supported by his motherland. on April 26, 1954, during the International Conference of Indochina, the Secretary General of the Chinese Delegation, Wang Bingnan, and the head of the U.S. Delegation, Asia Johnson, started contacts on behalf of the two governments on the issue of civilian return. During the contact, Wang Bingnan specifically pointed out that the U.S. was blocking the return to China of many Chinese living in the U.S., including the scientist Qian Xuesen. One day in June 1955, Qian Xuesen escaped from the surveillance of the secret agents and sent a letter to his relatives in Belgium with a letter written on cigarette paper to Mr. Chen Shutong, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), requesting the motherland's help to return to China at an early date. On the day Mr. Chen Shutong received the letter, he sent it to Premier Zhou Enlai, and on August 1, 1955, during the ambassadorial talks between China and the U.S. in Geneva, Switzerland, Ambassador Wang Bingnan, according to Premier Zhou's instructions, negotiated with the U.S. side on the basis of Qian's request to return to China and forced the U.S. government to allow Qian to leave the U.S. for his home country. September 17, 1955, Qian Xuesen, his wife and two young children finally took the U.S. "Cleveland President" mail ship, left Los Angeles, sailing to the motherland in the East.
Wang Zhaosong:
Mr. Wang Zhaosong was born poor and had no choice but to go to the South China Sea to make a living, and became a famous Malaysian overseas Chinese leader and entrepreneur after a hard struggle.
In 1875, Mr. Wang Zhaosong was born in Yimen Village, Qinglan Town, Wenchang, into a poor fisherman's family. His father was a veteran fisherman, who spent all his days soaking in seawater, and his family was poor. In order to find a way to live, when he was only 13 years old, Wang Zhaosong tearfully left his parents and brothers, and took a sailboat to the South Seas to earn his own living under the leadership of his neighbors. He first worked as a shrimp fisherman in Malaysia, and then as an ice salesman. He took the initiative to transport ice to different fishing boats by sampan according to their needs, and gained precious credibility with his hard work and honesty. With a little accumulation, he bought a car in time, and in addition to selling ice, he started the ice fish transportation and marketing business, and because of his outstanding sales performance, he was appointed as the general agent by a company of British businessmen. On this basis, Wang Zhaosong gradually explored other projects, in addition to investing in real estate, rubber planting, tin mining, but also invested in hotels, theaters and other service industries. By the 1920s, Wang Zhaosong had become a well-known entrepreneur among overseas Chinese of Qiong nationality.
Wang Zhaosong's achievements and behavior, y trusted and respected by the townspeople and the local upper class, was elected as the Prime Minister of the Kuala Lumpur Qiongzhou Association, etc. In 1930, he was appointed by the Malaysian government of the state of Selangor as a member of the Chinese Councillor Bureau and Taiping Bureau of the Squire, which was the year Wang Zhaosong was 55 years old.
For the public welfare of his hometown, Wang Zhaosong has been very enthusiastic. 1936, Wang Zhaosong and others initiated the establishment of the Qiongyi Industrial Company Limited, aimed at the development of the Qiongyi reclamation, mining, fishing, salt and other industries. He led his neighbors to buy 8,000 acres of land in Wanning and planted more than 400 acres of rubber. During the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Zhaosong actively donated money to support the anti-Japanese war in Qiongya. Feng Baiju, then chief of the independent Qiongya self-defense team, had written two letters to Wang Zhaosong, praising the patriotic overseas Chinese "zeal and righteousness, no sense of admiration".
Hainan many hospitals, schools have wang zhaosong donations. 1926, when building haikou hainan hospital, he donated 1,000 yuan, was appointed honorary director; also 3 times for the qionghai middle school (hainan middle school predecessor) donations, sole proprietor of the middle school for the construction of libraries in wenchang, that is, the zhaosong building; wenchang qinglan nandao elementary school, will be guananan elementary school, have wang zhaosong donations to the teaching building. These school buildings are still in use, maintaining the original style of the building.
The virtue of not forgetting the poor when one is rich was fully realized by Wang Zhaosong, who died in 1956 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after a long illness. His name has been engraved in the hearts of the people of the overseas Chinese townships, his patriotic feelings, in his children and grandchildren from generation to generation.
From 1934, Wang Zhaosong annual remittances from abroad for Wenchang hometown road repair, but also in the highway to his hometown built five wooden bridges. Later, because of the trouble of remittance, Wang Zhaosong bought 3 paved houses in Wenchang and paid for the repairs with rent. And in Haikou, he bought 2 buildings (today's North Xinhua Road, "Chang'an Hotel" and No. 51, Deshengsha), entrusted to an agent, and the rent was fully used for highway maintenance and to solve the difficulties of the townspeople, and then remittance of part of the shortfall from abroad.
Ong Siong died in Kuala Lumpur in 1955 at the age of 80.
Wang Xiaoyun:
Allegedly Asia's first female pilot
Mr. Wang Zhaosong had nine sons and five daughters, all of whom inherited his father's legacy of dedication to the public good of their hometowns.
Wang Xiaoyun's eldest son, Wang Guopan, sent back cereals and other foodstuffs from Malaysia to his folks when they were in need of supplies in Hainan around 1958. He also donated the rent of Haikou real estate to Wenchang Overseas Chinese High School, Nandao Elementary School for school funding.
Wang Zhaosong's family motto is: no matter how many languages you know and how many dialects you speak, you must speak Hainanese at home. No one in the family is exempt.
The most unique of his daughters is his eldest, Wang Xiaoyun. She was born in Kuala Lumpur, and after finishing high school, she joined the Malaysian Selangor Club and became a pilot, and the Malaysian newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau once published a story about her, calling her "Asia's first female pilot".
Wang Siu-yun was active by nature, loved to play badminton and ride motorcycles on the road, which was rare at that time, and she was also a member of the YWCA and loved to dance. She was also a member of the YWCA and loved to dance. Flying airplanes was an activity that not only women did not dare to ask, but also men rarely participated in, and she was the only one in her family who was interested in traveling in the blue sky. She was the only one in her family who was interested in flying, and when she had the courage to ask her father for permission to fly, he supported her. She was so talented that after 12 hours at the Shenandoah Flying Club, she was able to maneuver an airplane by herself.
Wang Siu-yun was an outstanding pilot, winning several flying awards and having many narrow escapes. The most dangerous time was in 1937, when she flew alone to the sea, the plane suddenly broke down, she was forced to make an emergency landing, and when the plane landed on the ground, it suddenly overturned, and the wings and the skeleton were all destroyed, but she was lucky, unhurt.
Piloting an airplane was a sensation in the thirties, and what is more admirable is that when the Japanese invaded China, she asked to join the Chinese air force and bombed the Japanese positions for her compatriots and her country to avenge the shame of her country, but because the Chinese Air Force Officers' School did not accept female students, Wang Qiuyun had no way to serve her country and could not be the modern-day Hua Mulan.
Soon after Wang Xiaoyun came to Hong Kong, joined the local flying club. For her, the desire to fly fighter jets to defend her country's airspace could no longer be realized, but she could instruct young people in flying techniques, so that when they entered the Air Force School, they could master the flying techniques faster and better perform the task of defending the airspace of the motherland, which was the same as serving the country.
This is really a girl with a difference. Singing Cantonese opera was very popular at the time, and she made a number of appearances when raising funds for charity events or for charitable organizations. However, instead of playing the dainty flower girl, she played the emperor and sang the old man.
Wang Siu-yun never married and died of heart failure in Malaysia in 1971 at the age of 58.
Wang's nephew, Yang Qingda, was also a pilot. A few years ago, when famous Hong Kong movie stars Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh came to Kuala Lumpur to shoot a movie called "Police Story", the pilot who flew the helicopter was Yang Qingda, the grandson of Wang Zhaosong and the second son of Wang Lianmei, sister of Wang Xiaoyun. There was also a time when a helicopter was called to the valley to help with rescue work after a bus accident in Malaysia, and the pilot at the time was also Yang Qingda.
Three great-nephews and three grandchildren:
Continuing patriotic love for their homeland
Wang Zhaosong's children and grandchildren all have their roots abroad, and they often return home to ask about their ancestors. His great-nephews and grandchildren have inherited his great-uncle Wang Zhaosong's properties at home, and have also continued his patriotic love for his homeland.
In the early years, Wang Zhaosong built Wang Zhaosong Building in Deshengsha, Haikou City, which is a five-story building, renovated in 1995, and is now rented as a wholesale clothing store. Wang Zhaosong's great-nephews and grandsons, Wang Luli, Wang Luyi and Wang Luyong, lived there. They set up Wang Zhaosong Co., Ltd. and run shopping malls, hotels, and farming businesses. The three brothers, much like their great-uncle, are very enthusiastic about public welfare. In addition to donating funds to build schools, they also set up Wang Zhaosong Scholarships in Wenchang Middle School and Nandao Elementary School. Also in Wenchang hometown to pull electricity, build roads, bridges, erect street lights, and set up a fund for the maintenance of street lights and roads.
Mr. Wang Zhaosong in his hometown donated the construction of the school building, a lot has been seventy or eighty years, due to the wear and tear of the years, these buildings have been dilapidated, the three brothers discussed the re-maintenance of the heritage of the forefathers, on behalf of the forefathers for the benefit of their hometowns. 1998, the three brothers returned to their hometown of Wenchang Qinglan, to see his great-uncle in the thirties of the last century donated the construction of the Nandao Primary School in a dilapidated condition, they will be Wang Zhaosong Limited name. Ltd. donated more than 100,000 yuan, in the original site according to the original appearance of the re-construction of a teaching building; will be the town of Guannan Primary School Zhaosong building is also old, the three brothers in the name of Wang Zhaosong Ltd. donated 200,000 yuan to rebuild the old building. 2003, in the 95th anniversary of the school celebration of the Wenchang High School ceremony; the three brothers in the name of Wang Zhaosong Ltd. donated 750,000 yuan to start reconstruction of the Zhaosong building.