How Diana Lin went from militant Maoist in the US to the face of English TV news in Hong Kong

Ideal childhood: My grandfather went to Hong Kong University and studied Western medicine. There he met Sun Yat-sen, who was a couple of years older, and who asked if he’d join the revolution. He said he couldn’t, he had eight kids. One was my mother. During the war she was sent to China and went to Lingnan University (Guangzhou) to study agriculture, which was more like botany. Flowers were her lifelong passion and she was often trying to cross-pollinate them. My father studied at St John’s…

from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/3bvtNd9