More than black or white
By Harry Mok. December 3, 2002
"Tien was a man of stark contrasts: a maniac dancer and a leading authority in the science of heat transfer, an academic revered in the business community, a builder of bridges between cultures who refused speech tutoring to remove his strong accent. He was truly a 'people' person in all senses of the term, someone who was as comfortable running onto the field with the Cal football team as he was meeting with former Chinese premier Jiang Zemin."
