Shen Yuan had, like Chen Jingrun, been born in Fuzhou, Fujian province and had studied at Fuzhou Yinghua Senior High School. There he was taught mathematics by Shen Yuan (1916- 2004) who became an important influence on his life. In February 1948, he was admitted to the Fuzhou Yinghua Senior High School, the predecessor of the Middle School affiliated to Fujian Normal University. ![]() Things became far worse in 1947 when his mother died of tuberculosis. Although the terrors of the war were over, Chen Jingrun's life was still far from easy since he was a fragile child and was bullied at school. The family were then able to return to Fuzhou in Fujian province where Chen Jingrun entered Sanyi Middle School. During the next few years the family lived in horrific circumstances which only ended in September 1945 when hostilities came to an end. Civilians fled to the mountains as refugees but Japanese troops followed them and took over control of the area where Chen Yuanjun's family were living. Many fled to the mountains to avoid the fighting and Chen Jingrun's family went to Sanyuan County in the central part of Shaanxi province where Chen Yuanjun became the director of the post office which had been set up in an old temple.įor some time Chen Yuanjun's family were able to live in comparative peace in the mountains but in 1941 the war intensified and Japan began bombing Fujian province. Fujian province was a particularly bad place to be at this time since the Island of Taiwan was already controlled by Japan and the Japanese army invaded by crossing the Strait of Taiwan into Fujian province. When Chen Jingrun was four years old, in July 1937, the Second Chino-Japanese War broke out. The family were poor but the children were looked after as well as the parents could in difficult circumstances. ![]() Chen Yuanjun and his wife had twelve children, with Chen Jingrun being the third. Biography Chen Jingrun was the son of Chen Yuanjun, a clerk in the post office.
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