Busts of Stephen’s parents, Professor Chen and Madame Fu

The Chen family caveyard from which Stephen’s father departed for Peking in 1918 (photo taken in 2009)

The well outside the Chen family caveyard, a reliable source of sweet water (photo taken in 2009)

China’s first textbooks on the French language, written by Stephen’s father, Prof. Chen Pinzhi, 1935-36

Stephen’s first home on Songzhusi Hutting near Peking University, 1939 (photo taken in 2009)

Old Peking Union Medical College Hospital, where Stephen was born in 1939, Dawei was born in 1966, Mother died in 1981 and Father died in 1984

Stephen with Jiahui in the Chen mansion garden, 1948

Chinese government bond and donation receipt with Father's note, 1951

Di An Men (Earth Peace Gate), built in 1420, demolished in 1954. Stephen grew up in this neighborhood.

Stephen with his mother and sisters, 1956

Stephen in "Into the Storm", a Russian Drama, when he got to know Yuying, 1957

Stephen played the lead and Yuying was his makeup girl, as shown on this Beijing Middle School No. 65 Drama Troupe program, 1957

“Official” engagement picture, 1960

Father and three sons, Jisheng (right), Yansheng (left), 1962

(from left) Siwei (eldest sister), Sister-in-law, Jiahui, Yuying, Wuquan (elder sister), 1965

Newlyweds Yuying and Stephen at Cuihualou Restaurant, 1965

The honeymooners in Xi’an at Hua Mountain, 1965

Replicas of shoulder bag, leather pouch, and coins that Father left Yanmen with; homespun cotton shirt much like one Father was wearing the night the Red Guards almost beat him to death