Ruan Cishan

Ruan Cishan

Anthony Yuen (1946-may 17, 2020), a Chinese American with Hainan ancestral home, was born in Guangxi, China, and went to Taiwan with his father since childhood. He has studied in Journalism Department of Taiwan University of political science, New York, USA St.John ’S University, Institute of East Asian Studies, New York University (N.Y.U.) Institute of political studies.

He used to be president of the world daily, vice president and President of Los Angeles China Daily, vice president and President of Taiwan news, and chief commentator of Phoenix Satellite TV in 2001.

On May 17, 2020, Ruan Cishan died in Taichung city at the age of 74.

Character experience

Early experience

He was born in Guangxi in 1946. His father was a middle and lower class official of the Kuomintang. He once worked in the organs of Guangxi Province. At the end of 1949, the Kuomintang regime withdrew from the mainland and moved to Taiwan. Some of the hastily retreating Kuomintang military and political personnel went to Myanmar and some to Vietnam. Four year old Ruan Cishan left Guangxi with his father to Hainan, then Vietnam, and then Taiwan. In Taiwan, which was governed by the Kuomintang in the early days, so many organs, units and personnel poured in all of a sudden, causing chaos everywhere. The civil servants of the government have a hard time.

Ruan Cishan has five brothers and sisters. There are many children in his family. His parents support their family by salary and live a very comfortable life. Ruan Cishan knew that his parents had difficulties and wanted to share them since he was a child. From 12 years old in junior high school began to learn to earn money to support themselves. When he was studying in Kaohsiung middle school, the headmaster attached great importance to improving the students' writing ability, and set a system: anyone who wants to contribute outside the school will get a contribution fee, and he can get a prize equal to the contribution fee at the school with the contribution fee sheet. What a great encouragement, Ruan Cishan wrote and contributed as much as he could. Since then, he has earned all his tuition fees by writing manuscripts. But this kind of "system" of double contributions for one manuscript is not available to everyone. Because there are not many people with strong writing ability like Ruan Cishan. Ruan Cishan is not only economically well-off, but also a "little celebrity" in the school from material to spiritual enrichment.

Ruan's father loved reading. His brother and sister-in-law graduated from the Journalism Department of Taiwan University of political science. Ruan had been influenced by news for a long time and set up his ambition to be a journalist. After entering the Department of Journalism at Zhengda, he was among the best in his class. The Journalism Department of Zhengda has two very generous scholarships, one is Chen Bulei scholarship, the other is Chen Bosheng scholarship. These two scholarships in each academic year are all collected by Ruan Cishan.

Growth process

In 1974, 28 year old Ruan Cishan graduated from university. At that time, there were only a dozen or twenty news media in Taiwan Island, full of excessive competition. It's not easy for college graduates to find a job. However, Ruan Cishan, who has excellent achievements, has three jobs waiting for him. He chose two media, Taiwan's central daily and China Broadcasting Corporation. In 1976, Ruan Cishan chose to cross the sea to study in the United States. During his stay in New York, he worked part-time and studied part-time. He tried his best at the world daily in New York and accumulated some experience in running a newspaper.

In 1978, he obtained a master's degree in East Asian Studies from St. John's University.

In 1979, he returned to Taiwan and became the head of the news editing group of China Broadcasting Corporation.

In 1980, he left Taiwan for the United States again and studied in the doctoral program of the Institute of political studies of New York University.

In 1981, the Chinese Association hired 35 year old Ruan Cishan to Los Angeles to set up the Chinese Language International Daily. Later, he became Vice President and general manager of China Daily.

Since 1987, he has decided to become a columnist. At the same time, nine newspapers and periodicals have opened columns for him, and the one with the most contributions is Lianhe Zaobao (Lianhe Zaobao), which has two articles a week. It has been written for more than 20 years. Some people once commented that his column "is not luxurious and ostentatious, but it has the effect of getting to the point and getting rid of the disease with medicine."

At the turn of spring and summer in 2000, Liu Changle invited Ruan Cishan, who has been writing current affairs columns in many Chinese newspapers all over the world for a long time, to guest star in the program "current affairs talk" of Phoenix Satellite TV.

In January 2001, Ruan Cishan became the chief commentator and chief commentator of the information station of Hong Kong Phoenix Satellite TV. And the only stuttering TV host in the world.

work experience

1973-1976: deputy head of external relations group of Taiwan China Broadcasting Corporation

1978-1979: head of audience service group, Taiwan China Broadcasting Corporation

1976-1979: senior editor of the world daily

1979-1980: head of the news production team of Taiwan's China Broadcasting Corporation

1981-1986: world daily, USA

1986-1988: Vice President and general manager of Los Angeles China Daily

1998-2000: Vice President and general manager of Taiwan News

Since 2001, he has been the chief commentator and chief commentator of Phoenix TV information station

In 2002, he was appointed as a visiting professor of Renmin University of China

In 2004, he was employed as an adjunct professor of Wuhan University of technology

In December 2006, he was employed as visiting professor of Harbin Engineering University

In April 2010, he served as honorary Dean and chief professor of Phoenix College of Xihua University of China

In May 2010, he was employed as a visiting professor in school of Journalism and communication, Wuhan University

In June 2010, he was employed as visiting professor of China University of mining and technology

In June 2011, he was employed as a visiting professor of Northwest University of technology

In July 2013, he was employed as a visiting professor of China University of Petroleum (East China).

Personal life

Ruan Cishan's father, Ruan Zhongqi, and Li Qiongyue's father, Li Yuan, are good friends from the same hometown. Before Ruan Cishan and Li Qiongyue were born, their parents joked that they would give birth to children in the future. If there was a man and a woman, they would get married and start a family. Later, the Ruan and Li families, one in Vietnam and the other in Taiwan, were separated from each other. They thought it was over.

Ruan Cishan and Li Qiongyue did not know each other in their youth. In 1966, Li Qiongyue went to Taipei to study at Normal University. One day, her parents suddenly asked her to visit their old friend Ruan's family in Taipei. So young they met. Li Qiongyue had heard of Ruan Cishan before, because he was a talented person in Kaohsiung High School and was famous in Taipei. From then on, the two young people began to fall in love. When they got married in 1971, their fathers told them that the two families had an appointment to marry each other more than 20 years ago. Surprised, the newlyweds feel very lucky and cherish this rare marriage.

Ruan Cishan thinks that the most proud place in his life is that his family life is very happy. He got along very well with his wife and two sons. Ruan Cishan has a principle that no matter how busy he is, his family must have dinner together for decades, and the atmosphere is very good. Ruan Cishan flies around the world all the year round, but no matter where he goes, when he has a rest, he will call home to his wife or go to the United States to listen to his granddaughter's voice. He said with satisfaction: "so our children can always feel family affection in the process of growing up, which is the only family achievement I can say."

personal works

Book: dialogue with world leaders: focusing on the international situation, Shanghai People's publishing house, 2009, 342 pages.

Shock and test: the choice of the United States, perspective of Japan, dialogue between the wind and the clouds (Chinese and English Edition), cold peace: the puzzle of the Sino US century, how far can "Taiwan independence" go: military observation of the situation in the Taiwan Strait

Achievements and honors

He wrote three special columns for Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan at the same time, each with a readership of about one million. Every year, he is often invited to give lectures in Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan.

He often visits political leaders of various countries, and has exclusive interviews with former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, former Vice Prime Minister Anhua of Malaysia, former US President Carter, former Secretary of state Haig, former Secretary of State Christopher, former Secretary of state Vance, the first US ambassador to China, former US Secretary of state Beck, former President Reagan, and former US President George W National security adviser Brzezinski, former president Ramos of the Philippines, former Prime Minister Hawke of Australia, former president legari of Pakistan, former Prime Minister bistar of Nepal, former foreign minister Alatas of Indonesia, etc.

On February 27, 2001, he once presided over an unprecedented television relay summit in the history of television. Leaders of Asian countries attending the seminar include former president Ramos of the Philippines, former Prime Minister Hawke of Australia, former president legari of Pakistan, former Secretary General of ASEAN Singh and former Prime Minister bistar of Nepal. In addition, leaders from all walks of life in China will meet many people.

He has successively served as a member of the American political society, a director of the Chinese Talent Exchange Association, an executive director of the US China civil rights education foundation, a consultant of the Department of science and technology of Hainan Province, and a director of the US China political alliance.

Social evaluation

He has been engaged in journalism for 27 years. He has written current affairs columns for more than 20 years, and then started to talk about current affairs on TV. Ruan Cishan said that when he wrote a column in his early days, he had a strict requirement on himself, that is, the words must be catchy. "Tongue twister is definitely not a good news report. Colloquialism is my consistent style. There is no conflict between TV, column and news writing." However, Liu Changle, President of Phoenix Satellite TV, saw his insight into current political issues and his unique experience of being familiar with the situation in Europe, the United States, the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He also saw his experience as an expert on China issues and tried every means to "dig" him up.

Ruan Cishan, seen on TV by many people, is a playful and angry man

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