Dr. Peng-Chun Chang (1892-1957), Delegate from China to the United Nations

United Nations

Object Details

Title:

Date:

1946

Artist:

Medium:

Black and white conté on buff paper

Dimensions

18 ¼ x 12 1/8 in.

Classification

Drawings-watercolors

Credit Line:

Gift of Robert McLean, 1980

Description

In 1946 Oakley wrote of Dr. Chang, "He also spoke in beautiful English with an amazingly rich vocabulary. He referred to all the peoples in the 'economically low-pressure areas' with compassionate understanding. He concluded with a quotation from Confucius, because it was 'so modern.'”_x000D__x000D_An intellectual leader of the United Nations and vice chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, Chang, along with Charles Malik from Lebanon and Eleanor Roosevelt, helped ensure the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. He creatively resolved many stalemates in the negotiation process, using aspects of Confucian doctrine to reach compromises between factions."_x000D_

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