John Chang (now known as Chiang), former foreign minister and current senator in Taiwan, with his son Wayne. The younger Chiang, who just graduated from Penn Law School, has not ruled out joining the family business: politics
“I don’t know if it will help my father’s political career to have the name Chiang. He says that it’s just a fact that we should accept,” says Wayne. He cites a
Mandarin proverb: míng zhèng yán shùn. It translates roughly to, “With the correct name comes propriety.”
Does this name change mean a continuation of the family’s political legacy? Wayne says that he’s leaving the option open. In the end, not even he can predict where the
Chiang name will lead him.
