Chiu, MR Kun

Kun-young Chiu, P.E., F.ASCE, was born in an upper middle class in Taipei, Taiwan, 1937. After Chiang Kai-shek escaped to Taiwan when the Communists chased him out of the Mainland China, he and his regime brought a corrupt government to the island that eventually caused the Chiu's family among thousands of others to lose all their fortune; the livelihood of the family went from a paradise to a shantytown. Throughout high school, college and beyond, he, as well as his siblings, had to work in hard labor, serving as a carpenter, farmer, street peddler, and respectable tutor, etc., to support the...