age even the most enterprising soul—and I pictured
myself as anything but that. At first—more out of
spite than anything—I defied these prophets of doom
and gloom. As I saw it, the only alternative would be
to wallow in self-pity or just give up. Perhaps due to
stubbornness rather than to any more laudable trait, I
flatly refused to do either one.

But continuing to fight the battles—from small ones, like learning to tie a shoe by touch, all the way to large ones, like fighting to stay in the “educational mainstream” with my friends—undergirded solely by anger or defiance, wasn’t enough. I was becoming very weary, both from the mental strain of what had become an endless struggle and from the physical crises. Not overly religious by nature, despite being a Presbyterian minister’s daughter, I nonetheless asked for guidance: “God, there *has* to be something more—something or someone who will help my struggle to take on new meaning, offer encouragement rather than doubt, love rather than pity or condescension.” In the early 1970s, I would find that someone.

When I was 7 years old, my natural mother, herself a Czech-born, permanently scarred Hitler refugee, suffered a total mental breakdown. To me, then, it meant only that a basically strange woman I scarcely knew was to spend her life in and out of mental institutions—and be very much an alien in my life. My father, a German-born immigrant, had raised my older sister and me with an iron hand and a great deal of love. His deeds, more than his words, set a standard which I strive to emulate to this very day. But with the further collapse of my immediate family structure when my sister went off to college, and by what I can only call the grace of God, the most caring woman I have ever known entered my life.

While I was struggling with both my handicap and being a teenager, the late Dorothy Flechtner, the only genuine mother I would ever know, decided, “Gillian needs a mother as much as I need a daughter, and so we make a perfect match!” And what a match it was! Her crusade was to “maximize Gillian’s abilities and minimize her disabilities,” and she went about it with a gusto that has yet to meet its equal. We met when I took a part-time office job.

When I was unable to see the keys on a regular
typewriter, she bought a set of larger letters and
pasted them over the smaller ones, making the type-
writer a valuable tool for my use. When I couldn't see
the display on my traditional computer screen, she
challenged its makers to design one that *could* be used
by those of us with visual impairments. And they did!
As a result, the benefit of her tenacity extended far
beyond me and touched the lives of others.

"First off," she told me, in a tone as firm as it was
loving, "you will eliminate—not just remove but
**totally obliterate**—the words 'can't' and 'impossible'
from your vocabulary. Second, you will repeat to
yourself at least six times a day (more often, if your
immediate task is a difficult one) the phrase 'I can do
it!' No more of this self-doubt nonsense! And settle
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there was a string attached. "As long as you want to
help yourself as much as I want to help you," she said,
"I'll stand behind you 110 percent." Oh, yes. She
added one thing more: "I love you."

Drastic measures? You bet. A plan of attack that called for major changes in my approach to life and the problems I faced? Yes, that too. But her love and zest for life gave me the *reason* to keep on struggling. This is what my long search had been about.

I'm 31 now, and the problems still exist. And some
new ones are cropping up. The progression of the
disease, even with treatment, makes more surgeries
likely and my lifespan as a whole extremely uncer-

The Rev. Robert L. Brummel with Gillian Holzhauser.

tain. But I knew I had to turn these obstacles into
stepping stones because someone else knew I could.
She believed in me even when I didn't believe in
myself. That kind of love is very powerful. It pro-
vides strength, incentive, meaning and a desire to
pass it on to someone else who may need it now as
much as I needed it then. This is why I'm sharing my
story. It's also the reason why I can't quit.

**Editor's note:** Dorothy Flechtner died in 1984, after a long and arduous battle with cancer. Gillian Holzhauser's first book, *Making the Best of It: How to Cope With Being Handicapped* (Ballantine, $10.95), with a foreword by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, is dedicated to Dorothy's memory. This upbeat book offers a look at the problems—and suggested solutions—of growing up handicapped.

Ms. Holzhauser is a third-year law student at Ohio Northern University. She and Chaplain Robert L. Brummel of Ohio State University Hospitals are co-authoring *Love Lights the Way*, her second book, a chronicle of Dorothy Flechtner's struggle for life.

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CHINA'S MUSLIMS

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## PROPOSING ...

* ... a one-hour television special entitled:

### The Imprint of Islam

### The Story of China's Muslims

Outside a mosque, people are praying. They face the East. They fall to the ground. They touch their foreheads to the ground. They pray. We are in the world of Islam -- in the world of Muhammadanism.

Along with Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism, Islam has been a dominant force, in religion and culture, in more than two thirds of the civilized world -- in Africa -- in the Middle East -- in Central and Southeast Asia.

Today, there is a growing interest in Islam. In America, curiosity has peaked -- caused by the rise of the oil-rich Arab states of the Persian Gulf -- the ascension of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran -- the clash of Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean.

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We live in a complex world, today. It has become extremely important for Americans to understand peoples and their cultures throughout the world. Americans, for far too long, have lacked a knowledge and understanding of Islam and the Muslim world.

This program is about China's Muslims, and their impact on this immense country. Few westerners know that there are 14 million Muslims in the People's Republic of China. Ten of China's 55 ethnic minorities are of the Islamic faith. Who are they? Of what significance are they to China and the Islamic world?

That is the theme of our story.

It is a story of historic adventure -- of conflict and courage -- of mystery -- of intrigue... of peoples learning how to live together.

It is the story of exotic people in exotic places.

It begins in China, today -- with a look at the distribution of Muslim communities -- -- at the people -- at their mosques ...

-- but our story soon takes us back to the Eighth Century when trade routes were being forged between East and West.

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It involves the travels of Marco Polo and the dreams of Kublai Khan.

Today, more than half of China's Muslims live in XINJIANG PROVINCE on China's central Asian frontier. The rest are scattered through the country, many in the industrial cities and ports of the east, and southwest from Canton into YUNNAN PROVINCE.

The geographical distribution reflects, to some extent, the two main routes by which Islam penetrated China:

* Through the ancient trading ports of the south-east when Arab sailing ships dominated East-West trade...

* And through the legendary "Silk Road" -- the longest artery of overland trade in the world, stretching from the city, now called Xian, in central China, to Constantinople and on to Rome.

By the Eighth Century, momentous things were happening among the Muslims of the Middle East. The Islamic faith was spreading rapidly.

Fear of the growing Islamic empire subsequently brought China into closer grips with Muslim forces, culminating, by mid-century, in the Battle of Talas in which a Chinese army that numbered 30,000 men was decisively defeated by Muslim troops under the Abbasid (Arabian) caliph. From then on, Muslim control of Central Asia, on the borders of China, began to grow until, gradually, most of the peoples of this area were converted to Islam.

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The defeat of the Chinese brought some peripheral effects that influenced future history. Some skilled Chinese paper-makers were captured who introduced the manufacture of paper, a Chinese invention, to the Islamic world. It helped to stimulate a flowering of culture in Baghdad, comparable to that which was taking place in Xian -- then called Ch'ang-an.

These two cities were the largest in the world at that time. The two rulers -- the Chinese Emperor and the Arabian caliph -- were also the two most powerful men on earth. They shared similar views -- and they shared a taste for each other's goods, and for the art, music and culture of each other's region.

Xian -- the birthplace of Chinese civilization -- bears the imprint of Islam, today. One-time capital of China, this city is the site of China's largest mosque. Laid out Chinese style, it stands amid the neat white houses and narrow lanes of Xian's Muslim quarter -- population, 50,000.

We linger in the spacious compound of the Great Mosque, and examine its intricate art and architecture in detail. The large prayer hall is a skillful blend of Chinese style and Islamic tradition. In the impressive red-columned interior, the builders again adapted a Chinese practice to Islamic purposes. Even the mosque's most central feature is made appealing to Chinese eyes. Why?

History tells us that in the period of the Ming Dynasty, the Muslims in Xian were subjected to a program of

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"sinicizing minorities", in effect, a repression of their religious freedom. As a consequence, Muslims, like many persecuted minorities in other countries, learned to practice their faith with discretion. They built mosques which looked distinctively Chinese in architectural style but subtly retained those aspects indispensable to mosques internally.

Why the large Muslim community in YUNNAN PROVINCE, far from the main Islamic center of XINJIANG PROVINCE in western China?

When Genghis Khan and the Mongol "hordes" overran most of the land mass of eastern Europe and Asia in the Thirteenth Century, they spread terror and destruction everywhere. They systematically slaughtered the population of entire cities. They laid waste North China so completely that a horseman could ride for miles without stumbling over anything.

Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis, completed the conquest of China, destroying the Sung Dynasty in South China. He then founded the Yuan Dynasty, which lasted from 1279 to 1368 and established his capital at Cambaluc, the site of present-day Beijing.

As time went on, Kublai Khan developed some tolerance. He permitted the existence of some religions. He even enlisted the services of Muslims, who had the reputation of being good administrators. It was during his rule that Islam spread

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administrators. It was during his rule that Islam spread
throughout China. The Mongols encouraged immigration from the
northwest to resettle the areas depopulated by warfare, which
accounts for the large Muslim community in YUNNAN today. Marco
Polo, the famous Italian traveler, records that the province of
YUNNAN even had a Muslim governor at the time of his visit.

Muslims, in China, suffered religious
persecution during various periods in
history right up to the recent "Cultural
Revolution" under Mao Ze Dung. But, now,
the Chinese government is taking a more
tolerant attitude. The Koran is being
sold openly -- and the government is even
paying for repairs and renovation of
mosques defaced during the Cultural
Revolution.

Another area of Islamic penetration in China:

Lanzhou (Lanchow) on the Yellow River. We pause,
briefly, to visit its mosque and seminary standing side by side
with Buddhist shrines in White Pagoda Park.

In passing, we explore the remnants of the old
"silk road", the original overland route of East-West trade that
wended its way through the Gansu corridor, on the edge of the
Gobi desert skirting the Great Wall and crossed the eastern
frontier of XINJIANG PROVINCE -- where most of China's Muslims
live, today.

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We enter a land of exotic sights and sounds. We can hear the murmur of the Turkic tongue and almost smell the aroma of cooking kebob. Here, men wear gaily embroidered skullcaps and the women colorful silk headscarves.

Caravans from the Roman Empire and eastern China once crossed this land by camel and pack horse. The scenic vistas are stunning. The Mageo grottos -- the Flaming Mountain -- the Turpan Depression, 154 meters below sea-level. Despite temperatures of 40 degrees Centigrade, this area produces grapes and melons prized throughout China.

We go to several of the Islamic cities in XINJIANG. Some of them are oasis and garrison towns that exist today as they did through the ages, little changed -- Turpan --Kuqa -- Aksu -- Kashi -- Kashgar -- with a spur over the Tian Shan mountain range to XINJIANG'S capital city, Urumqi.

Urumqi, is a small, but modern metropolis. It's the world's most landlocked city -- and further from the sea than any other in the world.

In all the communities we visit, the inhabitants are predominantly Muslim. It may be a little known fact that, at one time, there was a sizable Jewish minority in China. It disintegrated during the Qing Dynasty -- the Jews joining with Muslims, continuing their worship in Islamic mosques. The only remaining

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evidence of this integration, today, the "blue-cap" Muslims -- said to be a cultural remnant of the past, when Jews distinguished themselves by wearing blue skull-caps, instead of the traditional white caps of the Muslims.

Passing through XINJIANG, we meet some of the people of the various Islamic minorities:

* The Chinese speaking Muslims ...

* Turkic peoples, speaking Turkic languages ...

* Persian-speaking peoples ...

* Muslims of Mongol origins ...

(*)

It is here, in XINJIANG PROVINCE that we find some answers to our thematic questions:

Of what significance are the Muslims of China -- and what have they contributed to the nation?

They have survived -- they have endured -- they have preserved their identity -- and have made multiple contributions in the arts, in science, in religion, in the administration of the country, in economic and political spheres. The Muslims of China have given strength to the fabric of life in their nation. That is evident, today, as it has been through the ages.

***

(*) see Appendix, page 9

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(*) APPENDIX

** The HUI -- the largest of the 10 Muslim nationalities -- more than 7 million are dispersed through China with a large community east of Xinjiang in the Ningxia region. They are either descendants of Chinese converts to Islam or of Chinese intermarriages with Muslim immigrants. Their appearance, language, and other cultural characteristics are distinctly Chinese.

Turkic peoples -- speaking Turkic languages ...

** The UIGHURS -- 5.9 million strong -- are the predominant people of XINJIANG and give the region its name, formerly called Chinese Turkistan. They are descendants of the nomadic "hordes" of Central Asia, many of them related to the minority peoples of the Soviet Union.

** The KAZAKHS and KIRGIZ -- together, more than a million -- live in the rugged mountains, close to the border with the Soviet Union -- from which they fled after major rebellions in 1916 against Russian rule. The KAZAKHS are a colorful people, fiercely independent. They dress in bright colors and are expert horsemen and women. They delight in showing off their riding skills -- thundering across the grasslands on their short, but sturdy chargers in re-enactment of traditional sports. More at home on horseback than on foot, the KAZAKHS of China, with their semi-tribal, still-nomadic ways, are one of the last vestiges of the ancient nomadic empires of the steppes.

Among the other Turkic Muslims, the UZBEKS, the TATARS and the SALA -- smaller in number. The former two have tribal links within the Soviet Union.

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The **TATARS** were the first Muslims to come under Russian rule -- in 1552 -- and despite efforts to forcibly convert them to Christianity, they remained firmly Muslim -- eventually playing a crucial role in establishing Islam in Central Asia.

### The Persian-speaking Muslims of XINJIANG:

The **TAJIKS** of western **XINJIANG** -- a small, but influential nationality (26,500) have practiced Islam longer than any other: 1200 years. A part of the original Iranian population of Afghanistan, they were farmers and settlers. Their way of life was copied by many of the nomadic peoples with whom they came in contact.

### Muslims descended from Mongol origins:

The **TUNGXIANG** (279,400) and the **PAOAN**, one of the smallest groups (9000). Both groups reside in the Gansu corridor. These are Mongol peoples who converted to Islam, though most Mongols were traditionally Lamistic Buddhists. The **TUNGXIANG** and **PAOAN** also live in small enclaves of the fertile Yellow River Valley plain south of Lanzhou.

###

Congressional Record

PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 99th CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

Vol. 132

WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1986

No. 118

House of Representatives

TRIBUTE TO YUE-SAI KAN

HON. JAMES H. SCHEUER
OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, September 11, 1986

Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, since February an audience of 300 million in the People's Republic of China has had the opportunity to watch a remarkably weekly television series produced and hosted by Yue-Sai Kan, an American citizen who was born in China.

Twice a week, Ms. Kan hosts her program, "One World," for the single largest television audience in the world. The 52-week series provides the Chinese audience with a view of the world since the program schedule in-

cludes scenes from more than 20 countries in Europe, Africa, Australia, and North and South America.

Mr. Speaker, Ms. Kan has become a household word in China and as a de facto "citizen-ambassador" she has fostered a great deal of good will and understanding between our Nation and China. She also produces and hosts a program devoted to Asia, known as "Looking East," which airs on cable and UHF channels in 48 States.

Ms. Kan's "One World" is a historic endeavor because she is the first foreigner to ever produce and host a television program on Chinese television. Her program, which has received high praise for its sensitivity and superb quality, will help to develop media and television programming in China. Her program is more than entertainment, it also is used as an educational tool by teachers who tape the program for classroom use.

"One World" provides the Chinese viewers with scenes of a world they seldom see, while "Looking East" provides American viewers with a fresh perspective on Asia. All in all, the programming produced by Ms. Kan satisfies a curiosity that exists in both East and West about each other's cultures. Ms. Kan is providing East and West with a global perspective.

Ms. Kan, who was born in China and raised in Hong Kong before coming to the United States, where she attended Brigham Young University and the University of Hawaii before embarking on her television career.

Her efforts have won her the title of "a modern day Marcia Polo" from Money magazine, while the New York Times said her work augers well not only for China and America, but for the rest of the world, as well.

Ms. Kan, whose father, Kan Wing-Lin, is one of best known Chinese painters, provides the people of China with a unique window to the world. She has succeeded in spanning the divide between two different cultures. She is a credit to her heritage and her citizenship.

THE ASIAN WALL STREET JOURNAL.

Chinese TV: Prime Time for American Host

By JONATHAN KOLATCH

New York

Each Sunday evening across China, an audience estimated at between two and three hundred million viewers tunes in to what is likely the only program in the world with two titles, broadcast in two languages, and whose host carries two different names. The program is "Shi Jie Ge Di" ("One World"), the first television show produced outside China specifically for China—alred first in English and several hours later in Mandarin. Its 38-year-old host and producer, Yue-sal Kan (or Jin Yuxi in Mandarin), a New Yorker born in Gullin, China, is possibly the hottest item ever to hit Chinese television.

Most of China receives only two channels—the national China Central Television and a local channel. (Peking with four channels is an exception.) The channel bosses have to try and ensure they can fulfill the entertainment wants of all their viewers. There is a particularly heavy emphasis on the educational and the practical, with mornings, afternoons and evenings devoted to subjects ranging from farm technology and computer science to sewing-machine embroidery. Five programs concentrate on teaching English.

The bulk of prime-time entertainment consists of contemporary Chinese-produced plays, heavy doses of sports, movies and serials (kissing is still out, but romance definitely is in) as well as Peking opera. Several programs per week (including Donald Duck and Micky Mouse, CBS Sports, and made-for-TV movies) originate abroad. All imports have Chinese dubbed in, and all are produced with a non-Chinese audience in mind.

At the end of 1984, CCTV officials told Ms. Kan, who was filming in China for her American TV program "Looking East," that they intended to send a reporting team to the U.S. for a first-hand view of American life. Ms. Kan offered to prepare the programs for them, free; they had only to promises to air what she produced. By January 1985, the contract was signed and production began. That was when the negotiating started.

Ms. Kan sums up her difficulties with Chinese television this way: "There is a saying in China: "Little do; little wrong. Big do; big wrong. No do; no wrong." Midway through production, the Chinese shortened the length of the broadcasts and decided they wanted English versions as well.

Despite such problems, "One World" began being screened last February and offers Chinese television viewers a broad, well-paced, glimpse of the Western world, complete with first-rate camera-work—another world indeed from the plodding, melodramatic style that characterizes almost all informational programs on Chinese television.

Chinese viewers know the difference:

"Television in China has a good deal to learn to reach world standards. Yue-sal Kan's work is bright and lively, with punch and substance, unlike many of our programs which are dull, dry and long-winded," commented a viewer in the Chinese TV Guide, a national weekly that carries both the English and Chinese texts of each "One World" segment.

There are faults, of course. The segment on New York city, for example, shows too much in too short a time span.

Television

"One World"

(What the program really needs is the original half-hour format, not the 15-minutes the Chinese wanted.) Moreover, it's doubtful whether many Chinese benefit from the rapid-fire, highly-idiomatic English-language versions.

The subject matter of "One World" is essentially geographic: portraits of countries, cities, and ethnic groups. There is a conscious effort to stress the connection with Chinese and other Asian groups. For example, individual segments deal with the Chinese of New York city, the Miao tribesmen (a minority group in Thailand), and the Peranaks (a Chinese-Malay group stemming from Chinese who settled in the Straits of Malacca around the turn of the century).

Two programs were devoted to Egypt because its culture is as old as China's and the producer saw parallels in the burial preparation for the Emperors and those of the Pharaohs; the large, backward farming populations of each country; and the urban problems common to teeming cities such as Cairo and Shanghai. A spot on Paris shows how significant architecture is preserved, in contrast to China, where so much of the old has up until now been neglected. Another, on Britain, connects the English tradition of drinking tea with its Chinese roots, explains what a tea auction is, and how the British came to drink milk with their tea (one theory: to protect their delicate China).

There is a heavy stress on things American. A day in the life of American television (one of the most successful segments) takes the Chinese viewer from the "Today" show through the midday soaps, the evening news (explaining the anchor-star syndrome), the ratings, advertising, and cable TV. It ends up with clips of the most popular Chinese-American anchorwomen and it poses the question, (left to the viewers to answer), why are there no Chinese-American anchormen? There is also baseball, which is just gaining popularity in China, and a tour of the Universal Studios in Hollywood.

CCTV's hand in all this has been

minimal. They have offered no suggestions regarding possible program subjects, nor have they censored, edited, or rejected any programs—though some of the programs present subjects that the Chinese perhaps would prefer not to air, (e.g., an unmarried Danish couple who have been living together for 15 years). The program's producers know their audience and stay clear of troublesome countries or situations.

The reaction of official China—as reported by “Beljing Review”, “People’s Daily” and “Worker’s Daily”—has been unstintingly glowing. The audience raves about the host. A Shanghai viewer who has written Ms. Kan seven letters says that she is “everything a woman wants to be and everything a man wants to have.” A viewer from Suzhou calls her “exotic and familiar: exotic because you show us such a varied and complicated world; familiar because you are an American Chinese.” Another—one of many—puts his feelings into verse:

Yue-sal, bird of happiness, dream

So full of vitality, so full of charisma,

She flies nonstop, she sings nonstop. ...

Almost universally, when a television program is a smash hit and its star a household name, that program continues into a second season. But when the final episode of "One World" is broadcast at the end of this month, viewers will see reruns of the first year's programs. No new episodes are being shot.

According to Ms. Kan's agreement with Chinese television, "One World" receives six minutes of advertising to sell each week in lieu of payment. After the cost of production has been recouped, CCTV and the producers are to split the advertising revenue. Ms. Kan acknowledges that her company will lose some money on the program, but not so much that the company can't afford it. Despite this, and despite claims that she is exhausted from two years of 16-hour days, the urge to explore future television possibilities in China and build on her newly found stardom is apparent. But only on her terms.

Her first condition for a new series is to restructure her agreement with CCTV so that there is sufficient funding to hire the necessary staff. This accomplished, she proposes to refocus the program's thrust so that it deals more with themes and less with geography, thereby reducing her travel needs significantly. At this point, however, she is not at all convinced that CCTV appreciates her achievement or understands her problems. Two years into their agreement—and perhaps this is the real sticking point—she feels that "CCTV still doesn't realize that it takes six months to produce a program."

So, come March there will be no new episodes of "One World." And tens of millions of Chinese will be very, very dissapointed.

Mr. Kolatch is a free-lance writer based in New York.

Friday, February 6, 1987

Happy

People

MAY 18, 1987

VOL. 27, NO. 20

HELPING EAST MEET WEST VIA TV,
AMERICA'S YUE-SAI KAN HAS BECOME
THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN CHINA

There being no Nielsens in China, it is impossible to say precisely how large an audience watches the program *One World*. Its star, Yue-Sai Kan, has a pretty good idea though. Every Sunday at 5:45 p.m. an estimated average of five people—sometimes as many as 50—crowd around almost every one of the country's 80 million TV sets to watch her show, a quarter-hour documentary

about life in other countries. That translates into about 400 million viewers, which gives *One World* the largest TV audience on the planet. It also makes the diminutive, 38-year-old Yue-Sai Kan by far the most famous woman in China—an achievement that is doubly extraordinary since she is an American.

The China-born Kan, a U.S. citizen

since 1975 and a resident of New York, is China's first media celeb. Her hair-style, known as the Yue-Sai cut, is copied from Shanghai to Sinkiang. When she visits China she is mobbed by adoring fans; when she's in the U.S. they send her flowery poems. "Walking down the street with Yue-Sai is like walking down the street with Johnny Carson," says a friend, stage director

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In her Manhattan apartment the self-proclaimed capitalist says of her success, "It's like having one's wildest dream come true."

Photographs by Christopher Little

Kan, who was born in China, confers with her assistant, May Wu. "I'm the chief cook and bottle washer on the show," says Kan.

After visits to China, Kan (below, in Tientsin), says, "I need the break from celebrity that I get when I come home."

Happy-

George White, "only bigger, because there's nothing like her in China." Her unmarried state is talked of in neighborhood noodle shops. And Chinese newspapers outdo each other withard headlines: "Welcome, Ambassador of TV," and "Intelligence, Wisdom, Brilliance, Grace, Warmth and Humor-An Interview With Yue-Sai Kan."

These perfervid outpourings stem in part from China's fascination with the seldom-seen world beyond its borders. *One World* has taken Chinese viewers to New York, Egypt, Greece and Australia and has exposed them to the Muppets, baseball and the state of women's

rights in Denmark. The program is even broadcast twice—at 5:45 p.m. in English (a TV guide runs partial scripts in Chinese so viewers can follow) and again at 9:30 p.m. in Mandarin. Says former *New York Times* China hand Fox Butterfield: "The Chinese for years were starved for information from the outside world. They really craved it. She's filling an important need. She's also charming—and they're not beyond being charmed."

With a staff of four assistants, Kan shoots the shows on location and transmits them to China on tape. She picks subjects with care. "I thought the first

thing they should know about America is not how rich we are or how advanced our technology is, but the combination of people in our society," she says. So her first segment showcased the successes of Korean grocers and Polish butchers, among others, and most programs are similarly upbeat. "Yet we have no censorship problems at all," she reports. "It is amazing." Still, Kan asserts her beliefs diplomatically: "Communism is not for me, but that does not mean it's not a good system for China. I'm a real entrepreneur."

She clearly is, and her current venture is risky. Her sponsors, including Coca-Cola, Xerox and General Foods, seem mainly interested in exposure for the future. Although her deal with Chinese Central Television (CCTV) in Peking gives her a 50-50 split of the profits, she hasn't yet broken even. If the vast Chinese market opens up to American business, however, she could make a small fortune.

Yue-Sai was born into an upper-middle-class family in the Chinese city of Guilin in 1948. Two years later her father, Wing-Lin Kan, a well-known artist, fled to Hong Kong with his family. Kan studied piano at a branch of Brigham Young University in Hawaii, rejoined her family in Hong Kong, worked for Hyatt Hotels, then moved to New York City in 1971. There, she and her sister Vickie began importing silk from China and thrived, but after nine years she says, "I was ready for a change." She developed a cable-TV show on life in Asia, *Looking East*, and sold it to syndication. It now runs on 640 U.S. cable systems. In 1984, when CCTV and PBS broadcast the 35th anniversary celebrations of the People's Republic, Kan was brought in as the English translator and dazzled everyone. She simultaneously translated Premier Deng's speech, read the colorful banners for viewers and tossed in explanations of the history behind the 250,000-strong parade. Shortly after, CCTV suggested she do a show for China about the West.

Yue-Sai went to Peking to celebrate her first show on Feb. 23, 1986. "I was in my hotel room," she recalls, "and I saw myself greeting the Chinese people. That was the most elating moment of my life. I just jumped up and said, 'I did it! I did it!'" She still uses the same opener--"Hello. I'm Yue-Sai Kan. Welcome to *One World*."--but by now she really needs no introduction.

—Written by Susan Reed, reported by Lawrence O'Donnell Jr.

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Thank you for that marvelous letter you wrote to the Bohemian Club with regard to my candidacy for membership. It was a standout and I am very, very grateful.

I am also delighted to learn that Suzanne McFarlane is a neighbor of ours on Windmill Lane in East Hampton. Please tell her with what expectation Mary and I look forward to meeting her. We are building a house right on the ocean very near the two houses she owns on Windmill Lane and we look forward to seeing her in person soon.

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With a continuing salute and warmest affection always to you and Nancy from Mary and me.