Southwest Chinese Journal (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1983 Page: 5 of 16
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DECEMBER 1983
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J.T. Chien Opens
China Furniture in Houston
By June Dove Leong
Empirical giant J.T. Chien, presi-
dent of China Furniture, came to
Houston to open the Houston branch
of China Furniture at 7903
Westheimer.
At the Grand Opening reception,
sponsored by Chinese Daily News, of
which Mr. Chien is vice-president, a
buffet luncheon was enjoyed by
invited guests on Friday, November
11, between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Pictured from left to right are David
Chien, son of J.T. Chien, in charge of
public relations; Mary Kay Cosmetics
consultant Lucille L. Gee; J.T. Chien;
China Furniture buyer Paul Lin, in
charge of special orders.
Other Houston associates not pic-
tured are Cary Ho, treasurer, and
Stanley Cheng, sales manager
J.T. Chien governs a huge, far-
ranging furniture and newspaper
domain with base operations in Tai-
wan. He and his wife are the parents
of three children. Eldest is daughter
Li Chien Chang, who is married and
lives in Taiwan; second daughter is
Pat Chien, who serves in one of her
father's newspaper offices in Los
Angeles; third and youngest David is
assistant to his father in the furniture
business.
J.T Chien's newspapers are
known in English by the names Uni-
ted Daily News, Chinese Daily News
and World Journal, with branch offi-
ces in New York, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Houston and Vancouver,
B.C. China Furniture Store locations
can be found in San Jose, Oakland,
Menlo Park, San Francisco and now
Houston.
Customers are welcome to visi^any
of their stores to make direct pur-
chases or to custom order any item of
furniture they please, with a choice
selection of design and wood.
China Furniture is a furniture
manufacturer and distributor which
especially takes pride in featuring its
teakwood furnishings. An important
property of teakwood, one of the
most valued of woods, is its
extremely good dimensional stabili
ty.(For more on teakwood, see
below.)
China Furniture, Inc. imports teak
wood furniture from Taiwan using
Taiwan's skillful craftsmen and
excellent teakwood from Thailand.
The China Furniture showroom, with
teakwood much in evidence, features
a range of selections from elegant liv
ing room and dining room sets to
noble bedroom ensembles. Further
inquiries are welcomed by telephone
at 266-0029.
******
MORE ABOUT TEAKWOOD
Teakwood has been widely used in
India for more than 2000 years. The
tree resembles a tobacco plant, but
the substance is hard and its surface
rough. The teak's unseasoned heart
wood has a pleasant and strong fra
grarice and a golden yellow color
which with seasoning dearkens into a
brown mottled appearance, and is
naturally further embellished with
even darker attractive streaks. To a
great age, the timber retains its
fragrance.
REFLECTIONS
I
By William Der Bing, Sr.
Why does anyone join any
organization? Is it for prestige? Is it
for manipulative reasons? Is it for
personal aggrandizement? Is it for
political reasons? Is it for social
reasons? Is it for religious purposes?
Or, is it for genuine service to the
community in which one resides?
There is no lack of organizations to
join in the Chinese American com-
munity in Houston. Outside of the
professional organizations—such as
medical, engineering, educational,
religious organizations —there
doesn't seem to exist any one organi-
zation that can be called prestigious;
although one can call itself presti-
gious, its self-annointment must be
substantiated by actions, not merely
words.
Is it for personal aggrandizement?
There are a few who have continued
this trend for years. The
organizational elites would like to be
the ones who walk on the collective
cloak the organization's Sir Walter
Raleigh's have spread to cover the
mud—with the membership picking
up the cleaning bill.
Is it for social reasons? What
usually starts out social may end up
purposefully political. We'll leave
that one to the relatively recent
immigrees and those of easy
persuasion, the ones who can't seem
to shake off overseas ties of often
dubious credibility. Maybe this
particular class has been so
immersed in this type of situation that
it is impossible for them to realize it's
not that way here in America
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Is it for religious purposes? It is
hoped that the many who have
suddenly been "born-again" are
really just that. It may be that they've
just been "born." But, it is interesting
to note what can happen when such
born-agains are the same ones who
are politically motivated; are the
same ones who purport to operate
under the motive of "community
service"; such claims should be
viewed with the proverbial grain of
salt.
Recently, a number of young
people, married and unmarried, were
asked if they belong to or have
contemplated joining a Chinese
American organization (of any type)
in Houston. With the exception of a
church, the overwhelming majority
chose not to join. They were asked
why As youngsters, the prevailing
explanation went, they were jaded
with the sameness of all the
organizations despite the many
different names. They just wanted to
stay out of petty politics. As grown-
ups, some with families of their own,
their observations are that the
sameness still exists. The result is
that we are losing good, talented,
energetic, well-educated young
people who can, and do manage
almost any type of activity. We need
them to join up with service
organizations.
Where is this leading to? Well, the
youngsters can form a genuine, one
hundred percent "free-of-politics"
type of service organization. If this
present generation is going to have
any legacy at all, it will be through the
young people.
Along this same vein, perhaps it is
time that a truly genuine, one
hundred percent "free-of-politics"
(and foreign influence) type of
service and social organization be
formed, one that could accommo-
date both the younger and the older
generations in one cohesive,
cooperative group But, it must have
the backbone to withstand the
political and foreign lobbying. The
community is faced with an abuse of
power in the way money can be used
to intimidate. There are so many
organizations in our community, and
more is the pity that these have fallen
into the ways of the past—atrophy
through apathy.
Young people, arise and show us
all what true democracy is meant to
be in service, or social, or any
organization for that matter.
Americanism, anyone7
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Southwest Chinese Journal (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1983, newspaper, December 1, 1983; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth273792/m1/5/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.