Hsueh T. Chang *42

Hsueh Tseng Chang, tied by blood to significant events in Chinese history, died Dec. 5, 2004. He was 93.

Hsueh Tseng was born in Liaoning, China, son of the warlord Chang Tso-lin, who ruled Manchuria from 1916-28. Hsueh Tseng accompanied his father on that fatal journey when Japanese militarists bombed their train, assassinating the "Old Marshal."

Hsueh Tseng went to school in Beijing, Oxford, and Princeton, where he received a master's in politics. During World War II he served with the Chinese military mission in Washington. Later he joined the United Nations as a simultaneous interpreter, retiring in 1971.