58 Notable alumni of
Fudan University
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Fudan University is 573rd in the world, 113th in Asia, and 10th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 58 notable alumni from Fudan 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
- Enrolled in Fudan University
- Studied in 1978-1981
- Occupations
- political theoristpoliticianpolitical scientiststrategist
- Biography
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Wang Huning is a Chinese political theorist and one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who is currently the chairman 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, China's top decision-making body since 2017, and is its fourth-ranking member since 2022.
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Kim Young-dae
- Occupations
- actormodeltelevision actor
- Biography
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Kim Young-dae is a South Korean actor.
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Han Zheng
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Han Zheng is a Chinese politician serving as the current vice president of the People's Republic of China since 2023. He previously served as the first vice premier of the People's Republic of China between 2018 and 2023, and as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) between 2017 and 2022.
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Li Yuanchao
- Enrolled in Fudan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in mathematics
- Occupations
- politicianmathematician
- Biography
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Li Yuanchao is a retired Chinese politician. He was the Vice President of the People's Republic 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 its 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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Ding Xuexiang
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Ding Xuexiang is a Chinese politician who is currently the first vice premier of the People's Republic of China and the sixth-ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He has also been leader of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs since March 2023.
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Shoucheng Zhang
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistprofessor
- Biography
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Shoucheng Zhang was a Chinese-American physicist who was the JG Jackson and CJ Wood professor of physics at Stanford University. He was a condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, the quantum Hall effect, the quantum spin Hall effect, spintronics, and high-temperature superconductivity. According to the National Academy of Sciences:
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Zhang Weiwei
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Zhang Weiwei is a Chinese professor of international relations at Fudan University and the director of its China Institute. Zhang is also an Internet celebrity, spreading his political ideas through online video platforms such as Xigua Video, Bilibili, TikTok and YouTube.
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Shang Wenjie
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriterrecording artist
- Biography
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Shang Wenjie, also known as Laure Shang, is a Chinese singer-songwriter and the champion of the third season of the Chinese singing contest Super Girl (or Super Voice Girl; Chinese: 超级女声). In 2011, she also won the award for Best Female Singer at the annual MusicRadio China TOP Charts Awards.
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Guo Guangchang
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Guo Guangchang is a Chinese businessman and investor. He is the chairman and co-founder of Fosun International Limited, and a representative of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. According to Hurun Report's 2019 China Rich List he was the 45th richest person in China. As of 2022 he has a net worth of 3.8 Billion.
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Chen Yinque
- Occupations
- linguisthistorian
- Biography
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Chen Yinke, or Chen Yinque, was a Chinese historian, linguist, orientalist, politician, and writer. He was a fellow of Academia Sinica, considered one of the most original and creative historians in 20th century China. His representative works are Draft essays on the origins of Sui and Tang institutions (隋唐制度淵源略論稿), Draft outline of Tang political history (唐代政治史述論稿), and An Alternative Biography of Liu Rushi (柳如是別傳).
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Xu Beihong
- Occupations
- painterteacher
- Biography
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Xu Beihong, also known as Ju Péon, was a Chinese painter.
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Eric X. Li
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Eric Xun Li, born Li Shimo, is a Chinese venture capitalist and political scientist. He founded the Chinese nationalist news site Guancha.cn (Chinese: 观察者网), and is a board of directors member at the China Europe International Business School, as well as a trustee of the China Institute at Fudan University. Li has several opinion pieces published in Western media outlets where he criticizes liberal democracy and praises what he calls the "Chinese meritocratic system" and the Chinese political leadership.
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Qi Lu
- Occupations
- chief operating officerengineer
- Biography
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Lu Qi is a Chinese-American software executive and engineer who is the head of MiraclePlus, a startup incubator in China. Previously, Lu was the head of Y Combinator's China until it was shut down. He was formerly the chief operating officer of Baidu until he stepped down in May, 2018. He has served as the executive vice president of Microsoft, leading development of Bing, Skype, and Microsoft Office, and software engineer and manager for Yahoo!'s search technology division.
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Mao Renfeng
- Years
- 1898-1956 (aged 58)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mao Renfeng was a Republic of China general and spymaster who headed the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics (BIS, also known as the Counterintelligence Bureau and, after 1955, the Intelligence Bureau) from 1946 until his death, succeeding his childhood friend Dai Li, who died in a plane crash in 1946. Between 1946 and 1949, his spy agency played a prominent role in the Chinese Civil War. In 1949, he fled to Taiwan with the rest of the Nationalist government, where he died 7 years later.
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Xia Yeliang
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Xia Yeliang is a former associate professor of economics at Peking University. He was one of the early drafters and signers of Charter 08 in 2008. In June 2013, he was given notice by a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official at the School of Economics that a faculty vote regarding termination of his position at the university was scheduled. He was dismissed in October 2013. PKU issued an announcement afterwards, claiming "In recent years, Xia's teaching evaluations has been consistently the lowest of the whole School of Economics. The school has received more than 340 student complaints since 2006. The hiring and promotion committee voted against the renewal of his contract on Oct 26, 2012. As a courtesy, the school gave Xia one year extension for possible improvement. On Oct 11, 2013, the committee voted again. 34 out of 37 members showed up. 3 voted yes, 1 abstained, and 30 voted no. The school therefore terminated the contract."
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He Qinglian
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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He Qinglian is a Chinese author, economist, and exiled dissent, known for her critical view of the Chinese Communist Party and for her support of right-wing Republicans in the United States.
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Bruno Wu
- Occupations
- media proprietorentrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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Bruno Wu Zheng is a Chinese entrepreneur.
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Chu Anping
- Occupations
- journalistpoliticianphilosopher
- Biography
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Chu Anping was a Chinese scholar, liberal journalist and editor of Guancha (观察, The Observer) in the Civil War era of the late 1940s. He is widely considered to be one of the most famous liberals in China. He was Editor of the China Democratic League newspaper "for intellectuals", the Guangming Daily, in the PRC era. Following publication of his article entitled "The Party Dominates the World", he was attacked by Mao Zedong in the Hundred Flowers Campaign of 1957 and purged during the Anti-Rightist Movement. It is believed that he committed suicide in 1966. He was father to Chu Wanghua (储望华), a contemporary Chinese composer based in Australia, and grandfather to Mark Chu, a multidisciplinary artist.
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Chen Zhili
- Occupations
- politicianphysicist
- Biography
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Chen Zhili is a retired senior Chinese politician who served as State Councilor and Minister of Education, and a Vice Chairperson of the National People's Congress. She was vice chairman of the organization commission of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Tang Jiaxuan
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Tang Jiaxuan is a Chinese diplomat and politician who was foreign minister of the People's Republic of China from 1998–2003.
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Wang Wentao
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wang Wentao is a Chinese politician who has been Minister of Commerce since December 2020. He formerly served as Communist Party Secretary of Jinan and Deputy Party Secretary of Shandong province.
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Feng Zhenghu
- Occupations
- human rights activisteconomist
- 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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Wu Jinglian
- Years
- 1930-.. (age 94)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Wu Jinglian is one of the preeminent economists of the People's Republic of China (PRC), primarily specializing in economic policy as it applies to China's ongoing series of economic reforms.
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Chen Tianqiao
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Chen Tianqiao; born 1973) is a Chinese businessman. His wealth is estimated at US$4 billion. Chen moved from Shanghai to Singapore in 2009 and then to the Bay Area, California in 2017. He co-founded the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute in 2016.
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Lüqiu Luwei
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Lüqiu Luwei, also known as Rose Luqiu, is a Chinese television journalist and the executive news editor for Phoenix Television. She was the first female reporter to cover the 2001 Afghan war.
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Chu Coching
- Occupations
- science writermeteorologistprofessorchancellorgeologist
- Biography
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Coching Chu, also romanized as Zhu Kezhen, was a Chinese geologist and meteorologist.
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Weiping Qin
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Weiping Qin is an economist, political commentator, columnist and editor of China in Perspective, a U.S. Navy veteran.
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Han Qide
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Han Qide is a Chinese physician and politician. Han is currently the chairman of the Jiusan Society and a member of the Chinese Communist Party. He was the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and is the Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is also the president of the Chinese Society for Science and Technology.
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Zhou Weihui
- Occupations
- novelistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Zhou Wei Hui, known simply by her Chinese given name Wei Hui, is a Chinese novelist, living and working in Shanghai and New York City. Her novel Shanghai Baby (上海宝贝) (1999) was banned in the People's Republic of China as "decadent". Her latest novel Marrying Buddha (我的禅) (2005) was censored, modified and published in China under a modified title. She is often associated with Mian Mian, another slightly older member of the "New Generation".
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Nie Chenxi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nie Chenxi is a Chinese politician who served as director and Party branch secretary of National Radio and Television Administration from 2018 to 2022 and deputy head of Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party. He is a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Bagatur
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bagatur or Bater is a Chinese Communist Party politician of Mongol ancestry, formerly serving as the Chairman of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission. A career party functionary with background in the Communist Youth League, Bagatur steadily ascended the ranks of government, spending his entire career in Inner Mongolia. Between 2009 and 2016, he served as Chairman of Inner Mongolia.
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Tong Dizhou
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Tong Dizhou was a Chinese embryologist known for his contributions to the field of cloning. He was a vice president of Chinese Academy of Science.
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Wang Qunbin
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- chief executive officerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Wang Qunbin is a Chinese billionaire businessman. He was appointed co-chairman of Fosun International in February 2020, and was CEO of Fosun from March 2017 to February 2020, when he replaced Liang Xinjun.
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Zhu Min
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participanteconomist
- Biography
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Zhu Min is a Chinese economist and is deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund. He was the inaugural special advisor to the managing director. Zhu has held senior positions at the Bank of China from 2003 to 2009 and was a deputy governor of the People's Bank of China from 2009 to 2010.
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Jin Li
- Occupations
- university teachergeneticist
- Biography
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Jin Li is a Chinese geneticist and academic administrator, currently serving as president of Fudan University since 2021. Jin joined Fudan University from the University of Cincinnati in 2003 to serve as dean of the Fudan University School of Life Sciences. He previously served as the university's executive vice president from 2019 to 2021, vice president from 2007 to 2019, and dean of the Graduate School from 2007 to 2011.
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Qiu Xigui
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacherphilologist
- Biography
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Qiu Xigui is a Chinese historian, palaeographer, and professor of Fudan University. His book Chinese Writing is considered the "single most influential study of Chinese palaeography".
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Chen Jian
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Chen Jian is Hu Shih Professor of History and China-US Relations emeritus at Cornell University. His specialties include modern Chinese history, 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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Hu Qiuyuan
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Hu Qiuyuan was a Chinese author, educator and politician from Taiwan.
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Zing-Yang Kuo
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Kuo Zing-yang, was a Chinese experimental and physiological psychologist. He was a renowned educator and is also notable as having been the President of Zhejiang University, who was expelled by Zhejiang students in 1935.
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Jiang Jufeng
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jiang Jufeng is a Chinese politician. He served as the Governor of Sichuan from 2007 to 2013.
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Tien-Fong Cheng
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Cheng Tien-fong, was a Chinese educator, politician and diplomat. Cheng was a former President of Zhejiang University, and former Minister of Education of the ROC.
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Fan Ming
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fan Ming, born Hao Keyong (郝克勇), was a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army during the Battle of Chamdo, where Tibet was annexed into the People's Republic of China. He was later a deputy secretary of the Tibet Work Committee set up in Lhasa. While in Tibet, Fan became a close associate of the 10th Panchen Lama. A well-educated man, he assumed control of Tibet's social and economic policies while Zhang Guohua, a political rival, assumed command of the PLA armed forces. Fan Ming died in Xi'an on February 23, 2010.
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Thorsten Pattberg
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Thorsten J. Pattberg is a German philologist and cultural critic from Peking University. He is the author of the East-West Dichotomy.
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Stephen Bradley
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Stephen Edward Bradley is a British former diplomat who was Consul-General to Hong Kong from 2003 to 2008. His term of office ended on 4 April 2008. Earlier, from 1988 to 1993, he served in the Hong Kong Government as Deputy Political Adviser. He is known in Chinese as 柏聖文.
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Hu Dunfu
- Years
- 1886-1978 (aged 92)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Hu Dunfu was a Chinese mathematician and pioneer in higher education. He won a Qing government scholarship to study at Cornell University, and became the first dean of Tsinghua University at the age of 25. He was then briefly dean of Fudan University, before establishing Utopia University in 1912 and developing it into one of China's best private universities. He also served as head of the mathematics department of National Chiao Tung University and the first president of the Chinese Mathematical Society, which he co-founded in 1935.
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Gui-Qiang Chen
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Gui-Qiang George Chen is a Chinese-born American-British mathematician. Currently, he is Statutory Professor in the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Director of the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, and Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Partial Differential Equations at the Mathematical Institute, and Professorial Fellow at Keble College, located at the University of Oxford, as well as Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
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Xu Lin
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Xu Lin is a Chinese vice-minister-level official serving on the State Council. She has held the post of Chief Executive and Director of the Confucius Institutes worldwide since 2004. She is Director General of the Hanban, or Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.
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Xu Chongde
- Occupations
- political scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Xu Chongde was a well-known legal expert and professor, political scientist, and member of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Chen Danian
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- businesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Chen Danian, also known as Danny Chen, is a notable Internet entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of LinkSure. The company launched the world’s largest and first-of-its-kind WiFi sharing app, WiFi Master Key.
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Zhaoping Li
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistcomputer scientistinformation scientistacademic
- Biography
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Li Zhaoping, born in Shanghai, China, is a neuroscientist at the University of Tübingen in Germany. She is the only woman to win the first place in CUSPEA, an annual national physics competition in China, during CUSPEA's 10-year history. She proposed V1 Saliency Hypothesis (V1SH), and is the author of Understanding vision: theory, models, and data published by Oxford University Press.
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Fengzi
- Years
- 1912-1996 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Feng Jiren, known professionally as Fengzi (formerly romanized as Fung Tzu), also known as Feng Fengzi, was a Chinese actress, writer, literary editor, and dramatist. Her second husband was the American-born translator Sidney Shapiro.
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Zhang Jun
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Zhang Jun is a Chinese economist and currently serves as Dean of School of Economics at Fudan University in Shanghai.
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Wei Yang
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Wei Yang is a Chinese-American structural biologist. She is a distinguished investigator at the National Institutes of Health and was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
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Zhang Zhaohuan
- Years
- 1925-.. (age 99)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Zhang, Zhaohuan was born in Zhenjiang, China, in 1925. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Shanghai Medical College in 1950. Because of his outstanding school performance and academic potential, he was offered a lectureship by his alma mater upon graduation—a practice that is still in vogue in almost all universities in China when recruiting exceptional faculty members is difficult. In the eight years that followed, he worked there first as a lecturer and then an associate professor and associate director.
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Wu Nanxuan
- Years
- 1893-1980 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Wu Nanxuan, was a Chinese educator and psychologist, best known for his president positions of several prestigious Chinese universities.
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Feng Depei
- Occupations
- biologistpoliticianneuroscientist
- Biography
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Feng Depei or Te-Pei Feng was a Chinese neuroscientist and physiologist. He is considered one of founders of modern Chinese neuroscience and physiology.
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S. Taco Gilbert III
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- military leader
- Biography
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Silvanus Taco Gilbert III is a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force. His last assignment was Director of Strategic Plans, Requirements and Programs, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
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Mei Hong
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Enrolled in Fudan University
- 1988-1990 studied economics
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Mei Hong is a Chinese-American biophysical chemist and professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is known for her creative development and application of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy to elucidate the structures and mechanisms of membrane proteins, plant cell walls, and amyloid proteins. She has received a number of recognitions for her work, including the American Chemical Society Nakanishi Prize in 2021, Günther Laukien Prize in 2014, the Protein Society Young Investigator award in 2012, and the American Chemical Society’s Pure Chemistry award in 2003.
