China Times Scholarship

Yu Chi-chung, (1910-2002)

If I was really lucky/skillful, I'd nail the $US10,000 Yu Chi-chung scholarship for the upcoming school year. Yu Chi-chung founded the China Times. A Taipei Times article profiles him as he handed the reigns over to his son at age 92. Clearly, this is an ambitious, bourgeois power-player with close links to Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT that date to some time before 1949. According to the article, he encouraged new talent but could be cruel to those he found lacking. I wonder if a Yang Jiang project is at all more likely to win because she is close in spirit to his brand of humanism?