24 Notable alumni of
East China Normal University
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East China Normal University is 1264th in the world, 273rd in Asia, and 26th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 notable alumni from East China Normal University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Wang Huning
- Occupations
- political theoriststrategistpolitical scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Wang Huning is a Chinese politician who is one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He is currently the chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He has been a leading ideologist in the country since the 1980s. He has been a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee, the highest decision-making body within the party between convocations of the Central Committee and the National Congress, since 2017 (19th).
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Han Zheng
- Enrolled in East China Normal University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Han Zheng is a Chinese politician who, since 2023, has served as the 11th vice president of China. He previously served as the first-ranking vice premier of China between 2018 and 2023, and as the seventh-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) between 2017 and 2022.
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Li Yuanchao
- Enrolled in East China Normal University
- In 1972 studied mathematics
- Occupations
- mathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Li Yuanchao is a retired Chinese politician. He was the Vice President of China from 2013 to 2018 and the Honorary President of the Red Cross Society of China. He was a member of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party and head of the Organization Department between 2007 and 2012. From 2002 to 2007, Li served as the Chinese Communist Party Secretary of Jiangsu, the top leader of an area of significant economic development. Between 2007 and 2017, he held a seat for two terms on the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Zhou Youguang
- Years
- 1906-2017 (aged 111)
- Occupations
- linguisteconomisttranslatoruniversity teacherEsperantist
- Biography
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Zhou Youguang, also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, linguist, sinologist, and supercentenarian. He has been credited as the father of pinyin, the most popular romanization system for Chinese, which was adopted by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1958, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986.
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Liu Xiang
- Occupations
- hurdlerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Liu Xiang is a Chinese former 110 meter hurdler. Liu is an Olympic gold medalist and world champion. His 2004 Olympic gold medal was China's first Olympic gold medal in men's athletics.
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Cui Tiankai
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Cui Tiankai is a Chinese diplomat and was the longest-serving Chinese Ambassador to the United States, a role he filled from April 2013 to June 2021.
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Jeffrey Koo Sr
- Years
- 1933-2012 (aged 79)
- Occupations
- banker
- Biography
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Jeffrey Koo Sr. was a Taiwanese billionaire banker and the third-generation of the Koo Family who served as honorary chairman and governor of CTBC Financial Holding, and co-founded the Koos Group.
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Feng Zhenghu
- Occupations
- economisthuman rights defender
- Biography
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Feng Zhenghu is a Chinese economist and scholar based in Shanghai. Citing Amnesty International, The Guardian said that Feng was "a prominent human rights defender" in mainland China. In 2001 he was sent to prison for three years ostensibly for "illegal business activity". He was released in 2004 and has since written critical pieces highlighting alleged malpractice by local governments and forced evictions.
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Song Yongyi
- Occupations
- historianlibrariansinologist
- Biography
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Song Yongyi is a Chinese American historian who specializes in the study of Chinese Cultural Revolution. He currently works at the California State University, Los Angeles, and previously served as a college librarian at the Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
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Glenn Duffie Shriver
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- spy
- Biography
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Glenn Duffie Shriver is an American convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for China. At the behest of Chinese intelligence, Shriver unsuccessfully applied for jobs with the US State Department and CIA, meeting with handlers from China more than 20 times. He was first approached while living in China by operatives of the Shanghai State Security Bureau, a subsidiary of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), who hoped to develop a mole which would provide them information regarding American foreign policy. He was caught and arrested by the FBI soon after applying to a job with the CIA's National Clandestine Service. In a 2010 plea bargain, he pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit unlawful conveyance of national defense information, and served four years in prison at the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio. He was released in 2013, and was later depicted in the short film Game of Pawns, commissioned by the FBI.
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Guo Feixiong
- Occupations
- chinese human rights lawyerhuman rights defenderlawyer
- Biography
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Guo Feixiong born 2 August 1966) is the pen name of Yang Maodong (杨茂东/楊茂東), a Chinese human rights legal activist from Guangdong province who is often identified with the Weiquan movement. Guo is known as a dissident writer and "barefoot lawyer", who has worked on several controversial issues to defend the rights of marginalized groups. Prior to his 2006 imprisonment, Guo worked as a legal advisor to the Shanghai Shengzhi Law Firm.
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Zhou Yang
- Occupations
- writerliterary criticphilosopherpolitician
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Zhou Yang or Chou Yang, courtesy name Qiying (起应), was a Chinese literary theorist, translator and Marxist thinker, and Communist Party official, active from the founding of the League of the Left-Wing Writers in 1930. In the 1930s he was notable for his sharp disagreements with other leftist writers, including Lu Xun, concerning leftist literary theory. Zhou also translated the works of Leo Tolstoy and other Russian writers into Chinese.
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Chen Hao
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Hao is a Chinese politician. He served as Governor of Yunnan from 2014 to 2016 and also Party Secretary of Yunnan from 2016 to 2020. He was formerly Governor of Yunnan and vice-chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
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Paul Fang
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Paul Fang, is the current Chairman and President of Midea Group., a Fortune 500 company, and the largest producer of major appliances in the world.
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Chen Jian
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Chen Jian is a Chinese historian who holds the Hu Shih emeritus professorship of History and China-US Relations at Cornell University. His specialties include modern Chinese history, the history of Chinese-American relations, and Cold War international history. He is also Zijiang Distinguished Visiting professor at East China Normal University and Distinguished Global Network Professor of History at New York University Shanghai.
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Yin Yicui
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yin Yicui is a Chinese Communist Party politician who previously served as the Chairwoman of the Shanghai People's Congress from 2013 to 2020.
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Chen Liting
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Chen Liting was a Chinese playwright, drama and film director, screenwriter, and film theorist. He was one of the most prominent film directors and screenwriters in pre-Communist China, together with Shi Dongshan, Cai Chusheng, and Zheng Junli. His most famous film was Women Side by Side (1949).
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Chen Danyan
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writer
- Biography
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Chen Danyan is a writer based in Shanghai, China. Born in Beijing, she moved to Shanghai as a child and her writing revolves around Shanghai and Shanghainese women. She is best known for her trilogy of biographical narratives: Shanghai Memorabilia, Shanghai Princess, and Shanghai Beauty.
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Li Er
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Li Er is a Chinese novelist. He is best known for his novel Brother Ying Wu which won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Prize (2019), one of the most prestigious literature prizes in China. He is deputy editor-in-chief of Mangyuan magazine and director of the Research Department of the Chinese Modern Literature Museum. His works have been translated into English and German.
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Taoray Wang
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Wang Tao, professionally known as Taoray Wang, is a Chinese fashion designer who founded her namesake brand, Taoray Wang.
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Xi Nanhua
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Xi Nanhua is a Chinese mathematician currently serving as President of the Institute of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dean of the College of Mathematics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Pan Guang
- Occupations
- historianpolitical scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pan Guang is the Director of and Professor at the Shanghai Center for International Studies and Institute of European & Asian Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) Studies Center in Shanghai, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS), and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Middle East Studies.
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Sulochana
- Occupations
- activistpoetwriter
- Biography
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Sulochana Manandhar Dhital, professionally known as Sulochana, is a Nepali poet, writer, columnist and political activist. She writes poems in Nepali, Nepalbhasa and Chinese. She served as the Founding Chairman of the Mother Tongue Literature Department of Nepal Academy. Her works has been translated into multiple languages. Raat, Jhyalkhana are some of her popular works.
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Wang Xueyi
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 35)
- Occupations
- high jumper
- Biography
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Wang Xueyi is a Chinese high jumper. She won a silver medal at the 2017 Asian Championships and placed fourth at the 2018 Asian Games.
