You are here: Home > Video > Opinions > China Talk

Anna Chennault: Sino-US 'secret ambassador'

Wang Ke: 0 Comments Print E-mail China.org.cn, April 14, 2010

Adjust font size:

A legend in the Chinese community, Anna Chennault is famous for many reasons. She was the wife of "Flying Tigers" leader General Claire Chennault, the first female reporter for the Central News Agency, and the first person of Chinese ancestry who have had a successful political career in the U.S., where she became known as "the hostess of Washington."

Often acting as a "secret ambassador," she served as an emissary for interactions among the Chinese mainland, Taiwan and U.S. Over the past eight decades, she has devoted all her life to promoting dialogue and exchange between the two sides of the Pacific Ocean.

She has also published an autobiography and several collections of writings. Numerous TV serials based on her life have been produced and broadcast in Taiwan and the mainland.

1. Anna Chennault has been involved in many fields, such as politics, businesses and education. How would she define herself? A diplomat, businesswoman, educator or else? >>>

2. How did Anna go from being a reporter to a diplomat? Which role comes more naturally to her? How did she balance the two? >>>

3. What is her opinion on the potential deeper cooperation between China and the U.S.? >>>

4. For more than 30years, Anna Chennault periodically traveled back and forth between China and the U.S. She has seen great changes that happen in China? So which of your trips back to China impressed you the most and why? >>>

5. As an expert of both Chinese culture and American culture, does she have some suggestion on promoting the bilateral culture exchanges and how to introduce Chinese traditional culture like Confucianism? >>>

6. What is her opinion on the Obama’s administration and on the current Sino-US relation? >>>

7. What kinds of experience does she think that both China and U.S. should learn from each other? >>>

1 2 3 4 Next