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Height: 5'2"

Age: Twenty-something Weight: 110 pounds

Marital Status: Single and fully detached Birthplace: United States

Mother: Wei Mei, daughter of revolutionary opera performers. Born in Beijing, half Han and half Manchurian, granddaughter of a Manchu minister. Married three times. Moved to the United States during first marriage in mid-1970s. Currently the wife of the chief representative of an American oil company. Mother of Niuniu and a pair of Eurasian twins, Dong Dong and Bing Bing. A former Hooligan girl and shop clerk during the Cultural Revolution. Currently a social butterfly in Beijing 's expatriate circle, involved in some high-level diplomatic exchanges and movie projects. No higher education, speaks fluent English.

Father: Chen Siyuan, orphan from Taiwan. Arguably Chinese, adopted by an American missionary and converted to Christianity. Ph.D. in electronic engineering from MIT. Former employee of Hewlett-Packard. Currently CEO of the Chen Computer Company. Twice married, currently to his former secretary, Jean Fang, who is eight years older than Niuniu and soon to have a baby.

Twin Sisters: Dong Dong, age nine, and Bing Bing, age nine. Students of Beijing Lido International School.

Education: B.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia. GPA 3.8. M.A. in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.

Profession: Reporter for the World News Agency in Beijing.

Religion: Buddhism, light.

Smoker: Nonsmoker.

Drinker: Started at fourteen. Now occasional drinker.

Sexual History: Lost virginity at sixteen. Had sex with twenty-two partners. Currently sexually inactive.

Psychological Background: Suffered from depression while in the United States after being dumped by her boyfriend, the moderately successful eye doctor Len, a third-generation Chinese American who holds an M.D. from Johns Hopkins. Six sessions with a shrink, who taught her about the eye movement treatment, about which she remained highly skeptical. Eventually she left United States for a makeover in China as an alternative strategy.