![]() Up until the Cultural Revolution, the Communist Party didn’t decree how people should live, but from time to time political campaigns rocked the country, and when people fell victim to these their incomes were drastically reduced or they and their families were relocated. In 1957 Nien Cheng’s husband died of cancer and she was asked to fill the position of assistant to the new general manager, becoming the only woman in Shanghai to occupy a senior role in a company that was acclaimed worldwide, a role she enjoyed until 1966. ![]() When the Communist Party entered Shanghai in 1949 he was asked to remain in office for the transitional period, after which he was allowed to leave and take on the position of general manager of the Shell International Petroleum Company based in Shanghai. She met her husband during this time and upon their return to China in 1939, he became a diplomatic officer in the Kuomintang Government. ![]() Nien Cheng was born in Peking in 1915 and studied Economics in London in the mid-1930’s. ![]()
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