[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 56 (Monday, May 5, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E838]
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                      IN MEMORY OF HWANG MIEN LIN

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, May 5, 1997

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Hwang Mien Lin, an 
influential journalist, publisher, and author from China and Cleveland, 
OH.
  Mr. Hwang devoted his career to writing in the cause of liberty. He 
was born in Beijing, and became a journalist at the age of 18. During 
World War II, he fought against the Japanese occupation of Burma 
alongside England and the United States. He was one of a small number 
of brave soldiers who survived that conflict.
  In 1944, Mr. Hwang was a cofounder of Newsdom Weekly, one of the 
leading anti-Communist magazines published in the Far East. By 1950, it 
was the first Chinese magazine published in both Chinese and English. 
Mr. Hwang was a central member of a group of writers and journalists 
who met with President Chiang Kai-shek and helped to formulate policy 
regarding mainland China.
  Mr. Hwang was a widely read individual, a renaissance man, with a 
sharp intellect and a crisp writing style. When he retired in the late 
1970's, he traveled back and forth between his home in Hong Kong and 
his children's homes in the United States. He is survived by daughters, 
Margaret Wong, Rose Wong, and Cecilia Wong of Shaker Heights; son, 
George Wong of Rocky River, and nine grandchildren. He will be missed 
by all who knew him and who read his work.

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