ABSTRACT
Chen Han-seng was probably the one we knew best, together with his wife Shu-shing. Han-seng was already a noted agrarian economist, member of the Academia Sinica, author of a book on China's rural problems. The civil war was on in China. In the United States the debate was going on over the issue of American aid to Chiang Kai-shek and the hopeless effort to 'save China' from the Communist on slaught. In 1949, Hen-seng went on, when the Communist army was approaching Nanking, a group of the Central Club (CC) clique politicians negotiated a deal for handing over the city without further fighting. In Moscow in 1935, he was transferred from the Comintern apparatus back to the Chinese Communist Party. After his release, he lived for all the remaining years of the Cultural Revolution in a fragile freedom maintained by his silence.
