This essay explores how influential figures in overseas Chinese media formed networks linking both Chinese Communist and Nationalist political circles, and how these connections supported anti-Japan historical narratives.
It examines the political and media influence of Chinese diaspora networks across the United States and China.

Local Chinese-language media described it as a “Nationalist-Communist marriage” and reported that “the Fang family feeds on the Nationalists and also feeds on the Communists.”
January 9, 2018.
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Whose “wallet” was used.
Selected as “California Woman of the Year” in both 1990 and 2003, she appeared in three-shot photographs with George H.W. Bush and his wife—said to have met through small-business support programs—and in photos chatting with President Clinton.
In recent years she was also shown together with President Obama on CCTV.
She maintained close ties with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and held numerous honorary titles in both the United States and China, including honorary trustee of Peking University.
Articles praising Ms. Fan could also be found describing her rise “from a Chinatown basement print shop to the White House and Zhongnanhai” and “from a struggling housewife to a media queen.”
Why did she achieve such extraordinary success.
Fang Lizhi is not correct.
Her name is Florence Fang.
“Fang” is her husband’s surname, “Li” is her maiden name, and Florence is her Christian name.
She was born in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, in 1935 and moved to Taiwan at age eleven after the war.
After graduating from National Chengchi University she emigrated to the United States.
Together with her husband Fang Dachuan, a Shanghai native raised in Taiwan, she began a printing business.
After running Chinese restaurants and other ventures they entered the publishing industry in earnest.
The Young China Morning Post company was a Kuomintang-affiliated magazine publisher and in 1979 launched the first English-language magazine in the United States, Asian Week.
A turning point for the Fang family came after her husband’s death in 1992 and traces back to 1995.
That year Huang Fan, the daughter of Jiang Zemin ally Huang Ju, then mayor of Shanghai and studying in the United States, married James Fang, the couple’s eldest son and second-generation company president.
It is said that this marriage was arranged by Ms. Fan herself.
The previous year Huang Ju had been elected to the Communist Party Politburo and appointed Shanghai Party Secretary.
Regarding the marriage between the daughter of a Communist Party leader and the son of what could be called a Kuomintang operative couple, local Chinese-language media described it as a “Nationalist-Communist marriage.”
They reported that “the Fang family feeds on the Nationalists and also feeds on the Communists.”
As that “prediction” suggested, from around 1998 Asian Week rose with unstoppable momentum.
To be continued.