Lives and work of Joan Hinton and Erwin Engst in China

THEY HELPED BUILD NEW CHINA:

Early Contributions by Foreign Friends to Building of New China

The fourth in a series of about foreigners who came to China from the
1920´s to 1960´s and aided in the founding and building of the New China

Hear about the lives and work of

Joan Hinton - American

A nuclear physicist, she was one of the few women who worked for the
Manhattan Project which led to the development of the first atomic bomb.
Coming to China in 1948, she and her husband, Erwin Engst, participated
in China´s efforts to build a socialist economy, working extensively in
agriculture. She lived on a dairy farm north of Beijing before her death
on June 8, 2010.

and

Erwin (Sid) Engst - American

An American advisor to the PRC, he moved to China in 1946 to aid in
agricultural development and later to participate in the construction of
the socialist economy. In 1949, he and Joan Hinton married in Yan'an.
They worked at a farm near Xi'an and in 1966 moved to Beijing to work as
translators and editors at the beginning of the. In 1972, Hinton and
Engst started working in agriculture again at the Beijing Red Star Commune.

Presented by their son, Dr. Fred Engst - American

Born in Beijing in 1952 and he was raised on the farm north of Xi'an.
Moving to Beijing, he went on a "long march" to Shanxi with a group of
"Red Guards." In 1974, after five years of factory work in Beijing, he
went to the U.S. In 1980, while working as an electrician in factories,
he entered university as a part-time student and earned a Ph.D. in
economics in 1997. In 2007, after ten years of working, including seven
years of college teaching, he returned to China and has taught economics
at the University of International Business and Economics since then.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011 4:00-6:00 PM WEN HUA, EAST 1203

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