His twin brother Cheng-chi Chen, he says, currently is a representative of the Taiwan government in Germany. In this sense, Chen says he's as much the student as the teacher when he interacts with patrons. They are smart, and they will be the world's leaders. Chen says he and his family lived in a government-owned house and worked on a rice farm in suburban Taipei. In his earliest years, during World War II, his mother would carry him and Cheng-chi to underground hiding places to evade relentless bombing.
Education is very important.
Just to have knowledge. Because knowledge is another form of money. Chen Neither of his parents went past elementary school, but Chen says they made education a priority in the family. After attending local schools as a child, Chen was accepted into one of Taiwan's elite public schools, studying alongside two grandsons of Chiang Kai-shek. Chen received his bachelor's degree in applied mathematics in Taiwan and taught high school math there before coming to Buffalo in the late 1960s.