IHP staff member Chih-wei Wang (?–?) of General Affairs, who would later serve as Hu Shih’s (1896–1979) secretary, moved to Taiwan in January 1949 with the IHP, while his wife and young child stayed behind in Lizhuang, Sichuan. With the consent and support of Director Fu Ssu-nien (1896–1950), Wang was able to secure financial assistance such as travel expenses to bring his family to Taiwan. But documents held by the Archives, namely correspondence between Wang and Research Fellow Yih-fu Ruey (1899–1991), show that although his family had arrived in Chongqing by November 1949, they missed their direct flight to Taiwan due to remittances being halted as a result of the war. Fortunately, as Sung-ping Hu (1904–1988)—author and secretary of Hu Shih recalled—when the sub-office of Academia Sinica retreated from Chongqing Baishiyi Airport on November 27, 1949, “In the days leading up the retreat, a colleague from the head office, Chuan-mi Lo, who had asked to be dismissed, approached me and asked if I could take a young wife, who was with a child that was still breast-feeding.” Sung-ping Hu responded: “Since they are family members of an employee of Academia Sinica, of course they may be brought along. This young woman is actually Mrs. Yen-yun Chang, wife of Chih-wei Wang.” They two were then allowed on the plane and later reunited with Wang in Taiwan.
For more, see Sung-ping Hu, Conversations with Hu Shih from His Later Years (Taipei: Linking, 1984), p. 187 (in Chinese).