Chen Zhaohua's Doctoral Degree Certificate
A copy of the 1990 Ph.D. degree certificate from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Stanford University.
Family records: photographs, letters, manuscripts, and documents.
Each item is labeled with its source, date, and access level.
A copy of the 1990 Ph.D. degree certificate from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Stanford University.
The original 1976 obituary notice, drafted by his eldest son Chen Shouren.
Circa 1948, a group photograph of faculty and students of the Physics Department at Southwest Associated University.
Circa 1936, a group photograph of Chengzong's family and relatives in front of the ancestral hall at the old family home in Wu County. 23 people in all.
A pamphlet self-published in 1934, discussing the social responsibilities that industrialists ought to bear.
A 1933 group photograph of the first class of Chengyu Primary School students (24 in all) with Chen Chengzong and the school trustees.
A group photograph taken on the day the textile mill was completed in 1929, with Chengzong, his four partners, and worker representatives.
Issued at their wedding in 1925. A Chinese-style hanging-scroll marriage certificate in brush regular script, bearing the seals of both sets of parents.
A 1923 group photograph of 11 classmates, with Chengzong second from the right in the front row. The background is the Okuma Auditorium at Waseda University.
A rubbing of the honor tablet of the family's great-grandfather, who passed the provincial examination (juren) in Wu County, Jiangsu, during the Guangxu reign of the Qing dynasty; the rubbing was made by a family elder in 1985. The original tablet is kept in the ancestral hall of the old family home in Wu County.