World Bank chooses Chinese scholar as vice-president ( 08-01-22 )

Chinese economist Justin Yifu Lin is expected to be named as senior vice-president and chief economist of the World Bank by the end of this month, according to media reports.

Nobel laureate talks about life and marriage in new book ( 08-01-08 )

Nobel Laureate Chen Ning Yang and his wife Weng Fan stepped into spotlight again as the 85-year-old physicist's new book has become available on the bookshelf.

Liang Congjie (梁从诫) ( 06-12-06 )

Prof. Liang is a very well-known historian in China, and has devoted his career to the development of education, culture and publication in China. In 1993, his began to pay attention to the environment problems, and started the first Chinese environment NGO, Friends of Nature. Since then, he has committed all his efforts and energy to improving the public awareness and environment protection activities. He has made almost one hundred speeches or presentations to the students in universities, ...

Yi Zhongtian (易中天) ( 06-12-06 )

Yi Zhongtian is a professor at Xiamen University. In 2005, he rose to great fame after he started to give lectures on the TV programme "Baijia Jiangtan" (translated as "Lecture Room") on CCTV Channels. His simple and interesting approach to history has attracted some tens of millions of viewers to CCTV, the largest media group in China. In May, 2006, he auctioned the copyright of his latest book "Commentary on the Three Kingdoms," a rare practice in the publishing ...

Chen Ning Yang, 82, married 28-year-old student ( 06-11-23 )

Chen Ning Yang, a 82-year-old Nobel Prize-winning physicist, married Weng Fan, a 28-year-old graduate student. It was the hottest social topic in China in 2004. Weng, born in July 1976 in Chaozhou City, is a resident of Shantou. She was working on a masters degree in translation at the Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies when she married Yang. Yang is a Chinese-born American. He was born in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, in 1922. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his colleague ...

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