Anna Chennault (1925–2018)
Auteur van A Thousand Springs: The Biography of a Marriage
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Anna Chennault was born Chen Xiangmei in Beijing, China on June 23, 1923. She studied journalism with refugee professors and received a degree from Lingnan University in 1944. She became a correspondent for China's Central News Agency, covering the war and later Mao Zedong's spreading Communist toon meer revolution. She married Major General Claire L. Chennault in 1947 and became the vice president of the Flying Tiger Line, her husband's postwar cargo operation. Her husband died in 1958 and she moved to Washington, D. C. She joined the Republican Party and the influential Americans supporting Taiwan and opposing Communist China. In 1962, she founded the Chinese Refugees' Relief. From 1963 to 1966, she made weekly broadcasts in Chinese on the Voice of America radio. She wrote novels, poetry, and nonfiction books. Her memoir, The Education of Anna, was published in 1980. She died from complications of a stroke on March 30, 2018 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- 1925-06-23
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2018-03-30
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- China
USA - Geboorteplaats
- Peking, China
- Opleiding
- Lingnan University
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- journalist
memoirist - Relaties
- Chennault, Claire Lee (husband)
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- Republican Party
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- Anna Chennault, born Chen Xiangmei in Beijing (then Peking), China, graduated from Lingnan University in Hong Kong in 1944. She worked as a war correspondent for the Central News Agency from 1944 to 1948. While visiting her sister, a U.S. army nurse in Kunming, she met Claire Lee Chennault, the commander of American air forces in China ("Flying Tigers"), 32 years her senior. They married in 1947 and had two children.
After her husband's death in 1958, Anna Chennault worked as a publicist for the Civil Air Transport in Taiwan, as vice-president for the Flying Tiger Airline that he founded, as a broadcaster for the Voice of America, and as a fundraiser for the Republican Party. Several U.S. Administrations enlisted her help to facilitate negotiations with China and other Asian countries.
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CHENNAULT OF THE FLYING TIGERS door Sam Mims
The incredible story of the daring and heroic American pilots known as “The Flying Tigers” – and of the famous American General, Claire Lee Chennault (1893-1958), whose genius formed these fighters into the most formidable military groups in American aviation history – is told in this stirring book by his beautiful young widow. Only Anna Chennault could have told this story.
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