On August 31, 1966, 54 years ago as I write this today, August 31, 2020, my grandfather Tien Shu Fan 田樹藩 and my aunt Hsu Shiu Ching 許琇清

【田樹藩 柳溪山]

I was lucky enough to know my great grandparents growing up! It was a truly special occasion when I got to visit my great grandparents on my mother’

Time was also spent on weekends and after school learning Chinese folk dances either at the embassy or in the front courtyard/driveway of the mansion.

My grandfather left the room, leaving my plane ticket with me. I was stunned, but now realize that my grandfather, who had not raised his voice,

Judith Tien Lau (田之雲）was my classmate at DFLL(Department of Foreign Language and Literature) , but we never talked during those years. It seems Judith

This Epilogue concludes my 21 years of life with my father and mother through 7 Foreign Service postings, as well as, a condensed reminiscence of the

It is late March 1960 and from my airplane flying over the Asian Pacific Ocean from Taipei, Taiwan to Sydney, Australia,

In March 1960, while I was still in the U.S., Father received his orders for Sydney, Australia as consul general - the same rank he had held 9

While my father’s career promotion path had stalled after his Yokohama association with General Chu Shi-ming,