Feature: Remembing a T&T national who made a mark in China's politics

Eugene Chen (please click this link for more)

More than one hundred years after Trinidadian EUGENE CHEN made his mark in Chinese politics, one of his descendants is eager to maintain the links that were established between the St Mary's collage graduate and an illustrious political career in Beijing. 

Time Magazine called Eugene Chen, “The brains of the Chinese Revolution." Some say that “he blended Marxism, Confucianism and Communism to support his personal agenda for China.”  

Eugene - who was born Eugene Barnard Acham (he later took on the name of Chen) - was able to amass a small fortune from his law practice and a cocoa plantation, which he owned in Manzanilla. But he managed to get himself into serious, financial difficulty; and in 1912, fled to what was then Peking, China to become a legal adviser to the Ministry of Communications – initially leaving his family behind. 

Gideon Hanoomansingh reports: (Please click on the link below):

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