19.11.2025
caption: too chilly for front hood office. doing an in-car office until the sun sets.
Discussion
is this an apology
or a "we regret our xenophobia" thing
"He lived under house arrest and constant surveillance with conditional permission to teach without classified research duties. Qian (Tsien) received support, including legal representation, from his colleagues at Caltech during his incarceration. University President Lee Dubridge even flew to Washington, DC, to advocate on Qian's (Tsien's) behalf. But, in 1955, in a move that would haunt US defense strategy, the United States deport Qian (Tsien) to China in exchange for the repatriation of American pilots who had been captured during the Korean War."
via wikipedia
5 years. him and his family.
"During the Second Red Scare in the 1950s, the United States federal government accused him of communist sympathies. In 1950, despite protests by his colleagues and without any evidence of the allegations, he was stripped of his security clearance. He was given a deferred deportation order by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and for the following five years, he and his family were subjected to partial house arrest and government surveillance in an effort to gradually make his technical knowledge obsolete.
After spending five years under house arrest, he was released in 1955 in exchange for the repatriation of American pilots who had been captured during the Korean War. He left the United States in September 1955 on the American President Lines passenger liner SS President Cleveland, arriving in mainland China via Hong Kong."
The Qians were married on September 14, 1947 in Shanghai, and had two children; their son Qian Yonggang (钱永刚, also known as Yucon Qian) was born in Boston in October 1948, while their daughter Qian Yongzhen (钱永真) was born in early 1950 when the family was residing in Pasadena, California.
a toddler and a newborn were under partial house arrest and constant surveillance until seven and five years old.
if this treatment resulted in any longterm psychological effects, as ya know, often happens with scary childhood memories, who is paying the bill? imagine being in your thirties going to a therapist for a lingering sense of paranoia.
like... well sorry you were under constant surveillance actually, your dad did nothing wrong and that didnt matter to the United States because they had a Red Scare. It happens. Spilled Milk.