100 Notable alumni of
Tsinghua University
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Tsinghua University is 232nd in the world, 44th in Asia, and 5th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Tsinghua 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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Xi Jinping
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- 1975-1979 graduated with bachelor's degree in chemical engineering
- Occupations
- statespersonpolitician
- Biography
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Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Since 2013, Xi has also served as the seventh president of China. As a member of the fifth generation of Chinese leadership, Xi is the first CCP general secretary born after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Hu Jintao
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Hu Jintao is a Chinese retired politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the sixth president of China from 2003 to 2013, and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012. He was a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, China's de facto top decision-making body, from 1992 to 2012. Hu was the fifth paramount leader of China from 2002 to 2012.
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Zhu Rongji
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- In 1951 studied electrical engineering
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianengineer
- Biography
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Zhu Rongji is a retired Chinese politician who served as the 5th premier of China from 1998 to 2003. He also served as member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1992 to 2002, under CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin.
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Chen-ning Yang
- Years
- 1922-.. (age 103)
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Yang Chen-Ning or Chen-Ning Yang, also known as C. N. Yang or by the English name Frank Yang, is a Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and both particle physics and condensed matter physics. He and Tsung-Dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on parity non-conservation of weak interaction. The two proposed that the conservation of parity, a physical law observed to hold in all other physical processes, is violated in the so-called weak nuclear reactions, those nuclear processes that result in the emission of beta or alpha particles. Yang is also well known for his collaboration with Robert Mills in developing non-abelian gauge theory, widely known as the Yang–Mills theory.
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Hu Haifeng
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Hu Haifeng is a Chinese politician and the son of Hu Jintao, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Paramount leader of China. He is currently the Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs, and previously CCP Committee Secretary of Lishui and the deputy CCP Committee Secretary and mayor of Jiaxing.
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Sun Li-jen
- Occupations
- basketball playermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Sun Li-jen was a Chinese Nationalist (KMT) general, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute in the United States, best known for his leadership in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. His military achievements earned him the laudatory nickname "Rommel of the East". His New First Army was known as the "Best Army under heaven" and credited with effectively confronting Japanese troops in the 1937 Battle of Shanghai and in the Burma Campaign, 1943–1944.
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Tsung-Dao Lee
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. He was a university professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.
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Yang Jiang
- Occupations
- writertranslatorplaywrightfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Yang Jiang was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She wrote several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.
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Li Jian
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Li Jian is a Chinese singer best known for his poetic musical style. His career began as one of the two founding members of the band "Shui Mu Nian Hua." After his departure from the band in 2002, he began his solo career. To date, he has produced nine albums. He is well known for his song "Chuan Qi" (Legend), which became a hit song after Chinese diva Faye Wong performed it on the 2010 Spring Gala.
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Alex Tsai
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alex Tsai is a Taiwanese politician and a member of the Kuomintang. He served as a legislator from 2008 to 2016. He was one of the 3rd members of the National Assembly.
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Mao Yuanxin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mao Yuanxin, also known as Li Shi (Chinese: 李实), is a former Chinese politician. As the nephew of Chairman Mao Zedong, he acted as the liaison between Mao and the Communist Party's Central Committee in Mao's ailing years, when he was no longer able to regularly attend political functions. He was considered an ally to the radical political faction known as the Gang of Four. He was arrested soon after Mao's death after a political struggle ensued, and was sentenced to prison.
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Wu Bangguo
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- 1960-1966 graduated with bachelor's degree in electronic engineering
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wu Bangguo was a Chinese politician who served as the second-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012, and as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2003 to 2013.
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Chen Jining
- Occupations
- civil engineerpoliticianprofessor
- Biography
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Chen Jining is a Chinese environmental scientist and politician who has been serving as Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai and member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party since October 2022.
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Song Ping
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- 1935-1937 studied chemistry
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Song Ping is a Chinese Communist revolutionary and a retired high-ranking politician. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Song is considered the only living member of the Second Generation of Chinese Leadership.
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Yao Yilin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yao Yilin was a Chinese politician and soldier who was Vice Premier of China from 1979 to 1988 and First Vice Premier from 1988 to 1993.
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Liu Yongqing
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liu Yongqing is the wife of Hu Jintao, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the People's Republic of China. Traditionally, Liu Yongqing's role would be primarily domestic, but Liu often accompanied her husband on his official trips to foreign countries and made personal appearances at charities and cultural institutions all over the world.
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Chen Xi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Xi is a Chinese politician and the president of the Central Party School. Between 2017 and 2022, Chen was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and a secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party, serving as the head of the party's Organization Department. A graduate from Tsinghua University, Chen was the party secretary of the institution from 2002 to 2008. Thereafter he served as a vice-minister of education and vice chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology.
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Huang Ju
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Huang Ju was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking leader in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was one of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP, China's top decision making body, between 2002 until his death in 2007, and also served as the first-ranked vice premier of China beginning in 2003. He died in office before he could complete his terms on the Standing Committee and as vice premier.
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Liang Sicheng
- Occupations
- politicianarchitectart historianurban plannerrestorer
- Biography
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Liang Sicheng was a Chinese architect and architectural historian, known as the father of modern Chinese architecture. His father, Liang Qichao, was one of the most prominent Chinese scholars of the early 20th century. His wife was the architect and poet Lin Huiyin. His younger brother, Liang Siyong, was one of China's first archaeologists.
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Yang Liwei
- Occupations
- astronautfighter pilot
- Biography
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Yang Liwei is a Chinese major general, former military pilot, and former taikonaut of the People's Liberation Army.
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Qian Zhongshu
- Occupations
- writertranslatorman of lettersliterary scholar
- Biography
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Qian Zhongshu, also transliterated as Ch'ien Chung-shu or Dzien Tsoong-su, was a renowned 20th century Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his wit and erudition.
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Shiing-Shen Chern
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Studied in 1930-1934
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, winning numerous awards and recognition including the Wolf Prize and the inaugural Shaw Prize. In memory of Shiing-Shen Chern, the International Mathematical Union established the Chern Medal in 2010 to recognize "an individual whose accomplishments warrant the highest level of recognition for outstanding achievements in the field of mathematics."
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Huang Kunming
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Huang Kunming is a Chinese politician, currently serving as the Communist Party secretary of Guangdong and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Ken Xie
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Ken Xie is an American billionaire businessman who founded Systems Integration Solutions (SIS), NetScreen, and Fortinet.
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Liu Yandong
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- In 1970 studied chemistry
- Occupations
- politicianchemist
- Biography
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Liu Yandong is a retired Chinese politician. She recently served as the Vice Premier of China, and was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party from 2007 to 2017, a State Councilor between 2007 and 2012, and headed the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party between 2002 and 2007.
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Zhu Ziqing
- Years
- 1898-1948 (aged 50)
- Occupations
- poetscholaressayistprose writerwriter
- Biography
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Zhu Ziqing, born Zhu Zihua, was a renowned Chinese poet and essayist. Zhu studied at Peking University, and during the May Fourth Movement became one of several pioneers of modernism in China during the 1920s. Zhu was a prolific writer of both prose and poetry, but is best known for essays like "Retreating Figure" (Chinese: 背影; pinyin: Bèiyǐng), and "You. Me." (Chinese: 你我; pinyin: Nǐ wǒ). His best known work in verse is the long poem "Destruction" or Huimie (Chinese: 毀滅; pinyin: Huǐmiè).
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Cheng Hong
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Cheng Hong is a Chinese literary scholar and translator. She is a professor at the Capital University of Economics and Business and the widow of the former Chinese premier Li Keqiang.
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Chao Yuen Ren
- Occupations
- linguistpoetcomposertranslatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Yuen Ren Chao, also known as Zhao Yuanren, was a Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer, who contributed to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar. Chao was born and raised in China, then attended university in the United States, where he earned degrees from Cornell University and Harvard University. A naturally gifted polyglot and linguist, his Mandarin Primer was one of the most widely used Mandarin Chinese textbooks in the 20th century. He invented the Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization scheme, which, unlike pinyin and other romanization systems, transcribes Mandarin Chinese pronunciation without diacritics or numbers to indicate tones.
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Yigong Shi
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- biochemistpoliticianuniversity teacherbiophysicistbiologist
- Biography
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Shi Yigong is a Chinese biophysicist who serves as founding and the current president of Westlake University since April 2018. He previously served as vice president of Tsinghua University from 2015 to 2018 and dean of Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences from 2009 to 2016.
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Zhou Xiaochuan
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistbankerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Zhou Xiaochuan is a Chinese economist. Zhou served as the governor of the People's Bank of China from 2002 to 2018.
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Deng Yaping
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Deng Yaping is a Chinese table tennis player, who won eighteen world championships including four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997. She is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
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Ye Shiwen
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Ye Shiwen is a Chinese swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won gold medals in the 400 metres and 200 metres individual medley, breaking the world record in the 400 m event and the Olympic record in the 200 m event.
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Li Ganjie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Li Ganjie is a Chinese politician serving as the head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He is a member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and a secretary of the 20th Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Hua Luogeng
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Studied in 1931-1932
- Occupations
- mathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Hua Luogeng or Hua Loo-Keng was a Chinese mathematician and politician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China. He was largely responsible for identifying and nurturing the renowned mathematician Chen Jingrun who proved Chen's theorem, the best known result on the Goldbach conjecture. In addition, Hua's later work on mathematical optimization and operations research made an enormous impact on China's economy. He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1982. He was elected a member of the standing Committee of the first to sixth National people's Congress, Vice-chairman of the sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (April 1985) and vice-chairman of the China Democratic League (1979). He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1979.
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Ji Xianlin
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Studied in 1930-1934
- Occupations
- university teachertranslatorhistorianlinguist
- Biography
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Ji Xianlin was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, English, German, French, Russian, Pali and Tocharian, and translated many works. He published a memoir, The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, about his persecution during the Cultural Revolution.
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Wen Yiduo
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Wen Yiduo was a Chinese poet and scholar known for his nationalistic poetry. Wen was assassinated by the Kuomintang in 1946.
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Liang Shih-chiu
- Occupations
- translatorwriter
- Biography
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Liang Shih-chiu, also romanized as Liang Shiqiu, and also known as Liang Chih-hwa (梁治華), was a renowned Chinese educator, writer, translator, literary theorist and lexicographer.
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Zhang Guoqing
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zhang Guoqing is a Chinese politician and former corporate executive who has served as vice premier of China since March 2023 and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party since October 2022.
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Kristie Lu Stout
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Kristie Lu Stout is an American journalist and news anchor for CNN International. She currently hosts the program Marketplace Asia and other feature programs. She previously hosted the daily news show News Stream, which emphasized news connected with technology, and the monthly news discussion programme, On China.
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Fei Xiaotong
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacherpoliticianwriteranthropologist
- Biography
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Fei Xiaotong or Fei Hsiao-tung was a Chinese anthropologist and sociologist. He was a pioneering researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist. Starting in the late 1930s, he and his colleagues established Chinese sociology and his works were instrumental in laying a foundation for the development of sociological and anthropological studies in China, as well as in introducing social and cultural phenomena of China to the international community. His last post before his death in 2005 was as Professor of Sociology at Peking University.
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Liu Chao-shiuan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liu Chao-shiuan is a Taiwanese chemist and politician. He is a former president of the National Tsing Hua University (1987–1993) and Soochow University (2004–2008) and a former Premier of the Republic of China (2008–2009).
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Liu Yang
- Occupations
- astronautpoliticianaircraft pilot
- Biography
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Liu Yang is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut. On June 16, 2012, Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a crew member of Shenzhou 9.
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Wu Guanzhong
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Wu Guanzhong was a contemporary Chinese painter widely recognized as a founder of modern Chinese painting. He is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary Chinese painters. Wu's artworks display both Western and Eastern influences, such as the Western style of Fauvism and the Eastern style of Chinese calligraphy. Wu painted various aspects of China, including its architecture, plants, animals, people, as well as many of its landscapes and waterscapes, in a style reminiscent of the impressionist painters of the early 1900s. He was also a writer on contemporary Chinese art.
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Zhou Fengsuo
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Zhou Fengsuo is a Chinese human rights activist, investor, and former student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He was listed number 5 on the government's most wanted and forced into exile in the United States over his role in the student movement. Zhou attained his MBA degree from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and had been working in the finance industry in recent years. He is currently the president of Humanitarian China and Co-founder of the China Human Rights Accountability Center.
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Hu Qiaomu
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticianjournalistsociologist
- Biography
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Hu Qiaomu was a Chinese sociologist, Marxist philosopher and politician.
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Wu Han
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianhistorian
- Biography
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Wu Han was a Chinese historian and politician. Wu was one of the most important historians in the development of modern historical scholarship in China during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Jiang Fangzhou
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jiang Fangzhou is a Chinese infant prodigy author.
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Feng Youlan
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianphilosopherphilosophy historian
- Biography
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Feng Youlan was a Chinese philosopher, historian, and writer who was instrumental for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy in the modern era. The name he published under in English was 'Fung Yu-lan,' as used in the Bodde translation of A History of Chinese Philosophy. This earlier spelling also occurs in philosophical discussions, see for example the work of Wing-tsit Chan.
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Cao Yu
- Occupations
- screenwriterstage actorpoliticianwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Cao Yu was a Chinese playwright, often regarded as one of China's most important playwrights of the 20th century. His best-known works are Thunderstorm (1933), Sunrise (1936) and Peking Man (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that the modern Chinese "spoken theatre" took root in 20th century Chinese literature.
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Yin Haiguang
- Occupations
- opinion journalistuniversity teacherpolitical punditjournalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Yin Haiguang was a Chinese author, educator and philosopher from Taiwan.
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Yang Jisheng
- Occupations
- opinion journalistwriterhistorianjournalist
- Biography
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Yang Jisheng is a Chinese journalist and author. His work include Tombstone (墓碑), a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward, and The World Turned Upside Down (天地翻覆), a history of the Cultural Revolution. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966. He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. His loyalty to the party was destroyed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
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Qiao Guanhua
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Qiao Guanhua was a politician and diplomat in the People's Republic of China and played an important role in the talks with United States on the opening of China and the drafting of the Shanghai Communiqué.
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Andy Tsang
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Andy Tsang Wai-hung GBS PDSM PMSM JP is the current Deputy Director of the National Narcotics Control Commission of the Ministry of Public Security of China. He was former Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force until 4 May 2015. In November 2019, he missed out a top posting with the United Nations despite the strong support from the People's Republic of China.
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Hu Heping
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hu Heping is a Chinese politician and the current executive deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Previously, he served as the governor and party chief of Shaanxi province, Communist Party Secretary of Tsinghua University and Minister of Culture and Tourism.
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Wang Weizhong
- Occupations
- hydraulic engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Wang Weizhong is a Chinese politician currently serving as deputy party secretary and governor of Guangdong. A graduate of Tsinghua University, Wang rose through the ranks working for the Ministry of Science and Technology. He previously served as party chief of Taiyuan.
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Yu Kuo-hwa
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Yu Kuo-hwa was a Taiwanese economist who served as the Premier of the Republic of China from 1984 to 1989.
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Jing Haipeng
- Occupations
- astronautfighter pilotaircraft pilot
- Biography
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Jing Haipeng is a major general of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) in active service as a vice-commander of the 82nd Group Army. A fighter pilot in the PLA Air Force (PLAAF), he was selected to be a PLA Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) astronaut in 1998. He was the first Chinese astronaut to have flown on more than one mission and remains the only one to have flown on four (Shenzhou 7, Shenzhou 9, Shenzhou 11, Shenzhou 16). He also held the Chinese record for longest time spent in space from 2016 to 2021 (47 days) and again from 2023 (201 days), until his record was overtaken by Tang Hongbo in February 2024.
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Zhongyun Zi
- Occupations
- university teacherhistoriantranslatorpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Zi Zhongyun is a Chinese translator and historian who is an expert on US studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is proficient in English and French.
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Chien Wei-zang
- Occupations
- mathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Qian Weichang or Chien Wei-zang was a Chinese physicist and applied mathematician, as well as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served as President of Shanghai University.
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Hu Feng
- Years
- 1902-1986 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- translatorliterary criticwriter
- Biography
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Hu Feng was a Chinese Marxist writer, poet and literary theorist. He was a prominent member of the League of Left-Wing Writers. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hu Feng became a member of the First National People's Congress of China, but was then heavily persecuted as the chief of the Hu Feng Counter-revolutionary Clique (Chinese: 胡风反革命集团). The persecution became a massive political purge. He was first rehabilitated in 1980 and fully rehabilitated, posthumously, in 1988.
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Lou Jiwei
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lou Jiwei, is a Chinese politician, and current director of the 13th CPPCC Foreign Affairs Committee. Lou was Chairman of China's National Council for Social Security Fund, Minister for Finance, Chairman of China Investment Corporation and Central Huijin Investment, Vice Minister of Finance of China and Vice-Governor of Guizhou.
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K. C. Wu
- Years
- 1903-1984 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- historianpolitician
- Biography
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K. C. Wu was a Chinese political figure and historian. Among other offices, he served as Mayor of Shanghai and as Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government.
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Ye Qisun
- Occupations
- educatorphysicist
- Biography
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Ye Qisun, also named Ye Hongjuan (叶鸿眷), was a Chinese physicist and one of the founders of modern physics in China.
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Zhu Chen
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Zhu Chen is a Chinese-born Qatari chess Grandmaster. In 1999, she became China's second women's world chess champion after Xie Jun, and China's 13th Grandmaster. In 2006, she obtained Qatari citizenship and since then has played for Qatar.
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Hao Jingfang
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- In 2013 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in economics
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writernovelistessayist
- Biography
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Hao Jingfang is a Chinese science fiction writer. She won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu, at the 2016 Hugo Awards.
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Chen Wei
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- military personnelepidemiologist
- Biography
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Chen Wei is a Chinese epidemiologist and virologist specializing in biodefense, and is currently working as a researcher and doctoral advisor at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). In September 2021, The Globe and Mail reported that Chen is also a major general in China's People's Liberation Army.
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Jin Yuelin
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teacherlogician
- Biography
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Jin Yuelin or Chin Yueh-Lin was a Chinese philosopher best known for three works, one each on logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. He was also a commentator on Bertrand Russell.
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Qian Sanqiang
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Qian Sanqiang, also known as Tsien San-Tsiang, was a Chinese nuclear physicist and among the leading scientists of the Two Bombs, One Satellite program. Due to his central role in the development of China's nuclear industry and nuclear weapons program, he is referred to as the "father of China's atomic bomb". Coincidentally, China's first atomic bomb test was conducted on Qian's 51st birthday.
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Zhu Fenglian
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Zhu Fenglian is a Chinese diplomat who is currently serving as deputy director and spokesperson of the information bureau at the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.
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Xiong Xianghui
- Occupations
- diplomatspy
- Biography
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Xiong Xianghui was a Chinese Communist Party spy during the Chinese Civil War, and, after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, a high-ranking official in diplomacy and intelligence. He played a role in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, in his capacity as private secretary and aide-de-camp to Hu Zongnan, one of the most senior Nationalist generals; Xiong was secretly a Communist mole and for many years passed highly sensitive information to the Communist Party leadership, including top-secret orders and documents of Chiang Kai-Shek.
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Yin Yong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yin Yong is a Chinese banker and politician who is the mayor of Beijing, in office since 28 October 2022. Previously, he served as deputy party secretary of Beijing, vice mayor of Beijing, and vice governor of People's Bank of China.
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Jia Chunwang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jia Chunwang is a Chinese politician, intelligence officer, and prosecutor who held top positions in both the security apparatus and judiciary of the People's Republic of China. He served as Minister of State Security for 13 years (1985–1998), as Minister of Public Security (1998–2002) and finally as the procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (2003–2008).
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Wang Xing
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Wang Xing is a Chinese businessman, who co-founded Meituan and has been serving as chief executive officer of Meituan since January 2010. He previously served as chief executive officer of Fanfou from 2007 to 2010.
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Wang Li
- Occupations
- university teachertranslatorlexicographerlinguist
- Biography
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Wang Li, courtesy name Wang Liaoyi (王了一) and birth name Wang Xiangying (王祥瑛), was a Chinese linguist, educator, translator and poet, described as the founder of Chinese linguistics. His work expands a wide range in Chinese linguistics, including phonology, grammar and lexicography, historical linguistics and dialectal studies. He was also the founder of the first Chinese Linguistics Department at Tsinghua University. He brought the western modern linguistic methodologies back to China and strove for the modernization and reformation of Chinese grammar throughout his whole life. His most famous books include Zhongguo Yinyunxue 中国音韵学 (Chinese Phonology), Zhongguo Wenfa Chutan 中国文法初探 (An Exploratory Study of Chinese Grammar), and Wang Li Guhanyu Zidian 王力古汉语字典 (Wang Li's Character Dictionary of Ancient Chinese).
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Lao An
- Years
- 1929-.. (age 96)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lao An is a retired Chinese business executive who once served as vice chairwoman of the China International Engineering Consulting Corporation. She is the wife of former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji.
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Tsiang Tingfu
- Occupations
- historianjournalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Tsiang Tingfu, was a historian and diplomat of the Republic of China who published in English under the name T.F. Tsiang.
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Hafsat Abiola
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Hafsat Olaronke Abiola-Costello, in Lagos, is a Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist, founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), which seeks to strengthen civil society and promote democracy in Nigeria. She is President of Women in Africa Initiative (WIA), international platform for the economic development and support of African women entrepreneurs. She is also one of the founders of Connected Women Leaders (CWL).
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Zhao Jiuzhang
- Occupations
- physicistmeteorologist
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Zhao Jiuzhang, also known as Jeou Jang Jaw, was a Chinese meteorologist and physicist. He was a pioneer of Chinese space technology and is considered as a founding father of China's satellite program.
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Huang Tzu
- Occupations
- composer
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Huang Tzu, courtesy name Jinwu (Chinese: 今吾; pinyin: Jīnwú; Wade–Giles: Chin-wu), was a Chinese composer of the early 20th century.
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Chung-Yao Chao
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- nuclear physicistphysicist
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Chung-Yao Chao was a Chinese theoretical physicist. He studied the scattering of gamma rays in lead by pair production in 1930, without knowing that positrons were involved in the anomalously high scattering cross-section. When the positron was discovered by Carl David Anderson in 1932, confirming the existence of Paul Dirac's "antimatter", it became clear that positrons could explain Chung-Yao Chao's earlier experiments, with the gamma rays being emitted from electron-positron annihilation.
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Yang Weize
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- politician
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Yang Weize is a former Chinese politician. He was the Communist Party Secretary of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, he served as the party secretary in the neighbouring city of Wuxi for seven years, and before that the Mayor of Suzhou. In 2015, Yang was put under investigation for corruption by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He was tried and convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to twelve years and six months in prison in December 2016.
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Yang Qian
- Occupations
- sport shooter
- Biography
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Yang Qian is a Chinese sport shooter. She represented China at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in summer of 2021, where she won two gold medals.
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Yang Yang
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- short-track speed skaterpolitician
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Yang Yang is a retired Chinese short track speed skater. She is a two-time Olympic Champion from 2002 Winter Olympics and a six-time Overall World Champion for 1997–2002. Known as Yang Yang (A), she was formerly a member of the Chinese national short track team. Yang is one of the most accomplished short track speed skaters of all time having won 34 world titles, including six Overall World Championships. She is the first person to have won six Overall World Titles and won six consecutively. Her victory in the women's 500 m short track at the 2002 Winter Olympics made her China's first-ever Winter Olympics gold medalist. She added a second gold in the women's 1000 m short track at the same Games and has also won two silver and a bronze medal. After 2003 World Championships, Yang took time off competing, but came back in 2004–2005 season in lead-up to 2006 Winter Olympics where she won the bronze medal in 1000m race. She retired soon afterwards.
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Mao Yisheng
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Dr. Mao Yisheng a.k.a. Thomson Eason Mao was a Chinese structural engineer and social activist. He was one of the most famous Chinese structural engineers, a pioneer in bridge construction, and a social activist.
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Wang Ganchang
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- politicianphysicistnuclear physicist
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Wang Ganchang was a Chinese nuclear physicist. He was one of the founding fathers of Chinese nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Wang was also a leader in the fields of detonation physics experiments, anti-electromagnetic pulse technology, nuclear explosion detection, anti-nuclear radiation technology, and laser stimulated nuclear explosion technologies.
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Zeng Peiyan
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- politician
- Biography
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Zeng Peiyan is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2007 and was a vice premier from 2003 to 2008.
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Zhou Peiyuan
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- theoretical physicist
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Zhou Peiyuan was a Chinese theoretical physicist and politician. He served as president of Peking University, and was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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Ni Yuefeng
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ni Yuefeng is a Chinese politician who is the current party secretary of Hebei, in office since April 2022. Previously he served as head and party branch secretary of the General Administration of Customs and before that, party secretary of Fuzhou and deputy party secretary of Fujian.
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He Zehui
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- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Professor He Zehui or Ho Zah-wei was a Chinese nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China.
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Kang Hui
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Kang Hui is a Chinese news anchor for China Central Television, the main state announcer of China. He is now the President of the Broadcast, China Central Television.
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Li Xueqin
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- university teacherhistorianarchaeologistresearcherpalaeographer
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Li Xueqin was a Chinese historian, archaeologist, and palaeographer. He served as Director of the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor of the Institute of Sinology of Tsinghua University, Chairman of the Pre-Qin History Association of China, and participated in the Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project.
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Eric P. Xing
- Enrolled in Tsinghua University
- 1988-1993 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
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- university teachercomputer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
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Eric Poe Xing is an American computer scientist whose research spans machine learning, computational biology, and statistical methodology. Xing is founding President of the world’s first artificial intelligence university, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence.
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Xie Zhenhua
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- politicianminister
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Xie Zhenhua is a Chinese politician who served as vice-chairman of China's top economic development body, the National Development and Reform Commission as well as serving as China's special climate envoy.
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Hua Jianmin
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- politician
- Biography
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Hua Jianmin is a Chinese politician. He served as state councillor and secretary general of the State Council, president of the China National School of Administration, and vice chairman of the standing committee of the 11th National People's Congress.
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Qiu Yong
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- educatorprofessor
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Qiu Yong is a Chinese chemist. He is the current party secretary of Tsinghua University. Qiu is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Richard Tsoi
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- journalistpolitician
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Richard Tsoi Yiu-cheong is a Hong Kong politician and the former vice-chairman of the Democratic Party. He ran for many Legislative Council and District Council elections and was elected as Sha Tin District Councillor in 2003. On March 5, 2020, Tsoi resigned from duties after joint petition from colleagues against his criticism of local restaurants being discriminatory towards Mainland Chinese amid the coronavirus epidemic.
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Tang Yongtong
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- historianphilosopher
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Tang Yongtong was a Chinese educator, philosopher and scholar best known for studying Chinese Buddhism. Tang was proficient in Sanskrit, Pali, English and Japanese.
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Chung Kai-lai
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- university teachermathematiciantranslatorstatistician
- Biography
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Kai Lai Chung was a Chinese-American mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory.
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Yang Lien-sheng
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- sinologist
- Biography
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Yang Lien-sheng who often wrote under the name L.S. Yang, was a Chinese-American sinologist and professor at Harvard University. He was the first full-time historian of China at Harvard and a prolific scholar specializing in China's economic history.
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Li Ji
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- university teacheranthropologistarchaeologistart historian
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Li Ji, also commonly romanized as Li Chi, was an influential Chinese archaeologist. He is considered to be one of the foremost figures in modern Chinese archaeology and his work was instrumental in proving the historical authenticity of the Shang dynasty.
