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John L. Thornton is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is a former President and Co-COO of Goldman Sachs. In 1983, Thornton founded and developed Goldman Sachs' European mergers and acquisitions business. He served as co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International in London from 1995 to 1996. Thornton was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia from 1996 to 1998, where he expanded the firm's regional franchise during the Asian financial crisis. - Wang Li
Wang Li, or Wang Liaoyi was a Chinese linguist. Born into a poor but educated family in Bobai (博白), Guangxi, he was largely self-taught before entering the Tsinghua University in 1927. There he was taught by Yuen Ren Chao and Liang Qichao, among others. Encouraged by Chao, he went to Paris to study linguistics in 1927. There he devoted himself to the study of phonology, and attended the class of Theoretical linguistics by Joseph Vendryes. - Chen Ning Yang
Zhen-Ning Franklin Yang (born 22 September, 1922) is a Chinese-born American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. In 1957, at the age of 35, he and Tsung-Dao Lee received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their theory that weak force interactions between elementary particles did not have parity (mirror-reflection) symmetry. - Zhou Ji
Zhou Ji, (born 26 August 1946), is the education minister of the People's Republic of China. Zhou Ji is a Shanghai native, and attended Tsinghua University in Beijing. Zhou also acquired a doctorate from the University at Buffalo in the USA. UB Distinguished Alumnus Zhou Ji (Ph.D., 84, M.S.'81) was appointed Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on March 17, during the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing. - Chen Yuan
Chen Yuan (陈元), born in January 1945, is Governor of the China Development Bank. Chen Yuan graduated with a Master' s degree in Industrial Economics from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was appointed secretary of the Xicheng District Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party (CPC) and director-general of the Beijing Municipal Commerce and Trade Department in August 1982. - Qin Hui
Qin Hui (秦晖） b. 1953, is a Chinese historian and public intellectual. He holds the position of Professor of History, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His primary field is economic history, but since 1992 he has emerged as a prominent public intellectual, taking a stand on a range of issues, often in conflict with the official doctrines of the Chinese government. - Andrew Yao
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (born December 24, 1946) is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist. He received the Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science, in 2000, "in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity". In 1996 he was awarded the Knuth Prize. - Wang Hao
Wang Hao, also Hao Wang (20 May 1921 - 13 May 1995) was a Chinese American logician, philosopher and mathematician. Born in Jinan, Shandong, in the Republic of China (today in the People's Republic of China), Wang received his early education in China. After obtaining a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the National Southwestern Associated University in 1943 and an M.A. in Philosophy from Tsinghua University in 1945, … - Liu Yongqing
Liu Yongqing is the wife of Hu Jintao, the current president of the People’s Republic of China. Liu Yongqing has, as is the Chinese custom, retained her maiden name. Traditionally, Liu Yonqing’s role would be primarily domestic but this is fast changing as Chinese leaders travel abroad more. Liu often accompanies her husband on his official trips to foreign countries and has made personal appearances at charities and cultural institutions all over the world. - Zhang Zuoyi
Zhang Zuoyi (born November, 1962, Fujian Province) has been Director of the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) at Tsinghua University since 2001. In January 2005, he was an unsuccessful nominee in the Tech Innovator category for a Rave Award, awarded annually by "Wired Magazine", along with Jimmy Wales, Adam Curry, and Bill Healy. The winner was Mark Fletcher. - Wang Guowei
Wang Guowei, courtesy name Jingan (靜安) or Baiyu (伯隅), was a Chinese scholar, writer and poet. A versatile and original scholar, he made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy, philology, vernacular literature and literary theory. A native of Haining, Zhejiang, he went to Shanghai to work as a proofreader for a newspaper, after failing to pass the Imperial Examination in his hometown, at the age of 22. - Hongjie Dai
Professor Hongjie Dai of the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University is a leading figure in the study of carbon nanotubes. Born in China in 1966, he received a B.S. in Physics from TsingHua University, Beijing, in Physics in 1989 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994 under the direction of Prof. Charles Lieber. Among his awards are the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, 2004 and the American Physical Society James McGroddy Prize for New Materials, 2006. - Zhu Ziqing
Zhu Ziqing (real name: Zhu Zhihua) was a Chinese poet and essayist. Zhu was a prose and poetry writer but was better known for his essays. He studied at Peking University and was made a professor of Chinese Literature at Tsinghua University in 1925. From 1931 to 1932 he studied English Literature and Linguistics in London. His best known work is the long poem: "Huimie," (《毀滅》) <i>Destruction</i>. - Sanli Li
Sanli Li, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), professor of Tsinghua University, dean and professor of School of Computer Engineering and Science in Shanghai University. Professor Li is one of China’s pioneers in computer science and engineering. He has won many domestic awards for research in the fields of computer architecture and organization. - Zhang Guangdou
Zhang Guangdou (born May 1, 1921, Changshu, Jiangsu Province) is a world-known specialist in hydraulic engineering, professor at Tsinghua University, member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering. He graduated from Chiao Tung University (currently Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University) in 1934, obtained his Master degree in Civil Engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 1936, … - Wen Yiduo
Wen Yiduo, born Wen Jiahua (聞家驊), was a Chinese poet and scholar. Wen was from Xishui in the Hubei province. After receiving a traditional education he went on to continue studying at the Tsinghua University. In 1922 he traveled to America to study fine arts and literature in the Art Institute of Chicago. It was during this time that his first collection of poetry, "Hongzhu" 紅燭 ("Red Candle"), was published. - Feng Kang
Feng Kang was a Chinese mathematician and scientist. He was born in Nanjing, China on Sept 9, 1920, died on August 17, 1993. He spent his childhood in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He studied at Suzhou Middle School. - David Daokui Li
David Daokui Li is a Chinese economist and the Director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and is the Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics. He currently teaches courses on economic transition, corporate finance, international economics, and China's economy. - Mu Dan
Mu Dan (穆旦; 5 April 1918 - 26 February 1977) was one of the most important poets of 20th century China. Born Zha Liangzheng in Tianjin, China in 1918, he matriculated the prestigious Tsinghua University at the age of 17, and graduated from Southwest Associated University in 1940. After having served as an assistant lecturer of English at his alma mater for two years, … - John K. Fairbank
John King Fairbank. In 1929, when he graduated from Harvard "summa cum laude", he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar in order to study British imperial history. At Oxford, Fairbank learned that the Qing imperial archives were being opened, and he decided to go to Beijing to do research for his doctoral degree in 1932. In Beijing, he studied at Tsinghua University under the direction of the prominent Chinese historian Tsiang Tingfu. - Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo
Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo is the only child of the 10th Panchen Lama of Tibet and Li Jie, a Han Chinese who was a doctor in the People's Liberation Army. She goes by the name "Renji". She is considered important in Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan-Chinese politics. Renji lives in the Washington, D.C. area and studied political science at American University. She was invited by President Hu Jintao to attend Tsinghua University in Beijing, … - Huai-Dong Cao
Huai-Dong Cao is A. Everett Pitcher Professor of Mathematics in Lehigh University. He collaborated with Xi-Ping Zhu of Zhongshan University in verifying Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture. The Cao-Zhu team is one of three teams formed for this purpose. - Zhang Yuzhe
Zhang Yuzhe (1902 - 1986), or Yu-Che Chang in English, was a Chinese astronomer. He was born in Minhou, in Fujian province. In 1919 he entered Tsinghua University and graduated in 1923. That same year he went to the United States and in 1925 entered the University of Chicago and got his Ph.D. in 1929. That same year he returned to China and took up a teaching post at National Central University. While studying in Chicago, in 1928 he discovered an asteroid, … - Wang Tieya
Wang Tieya was an eminent Chinese jurist and former Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Wang Tieya was educated at Tsinghua University and the London School of Economics. Following the communist victory in 1949, Wang Tieya became one of the leading authorities on international law in the People's Republic of China, along with Li Haopei, one of his classmates in London. - Wu Youxun
Wu Youxun or Y. H. Woo was a physical scientist from Gao'an, Jiangxi, China. Wu graduated from the Department of Physics of Nanjing University, and was later associated with the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University. He was once the president of National Central University in Nanjing and Jiaotong University in Shanghai. When he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago he studied x-ray and electron scattering, … - K. C. Wu
K.C. Wu (October 21, 1903 - June 6, 1984) was a Chinese political figure and historian. K.C. Wu was born in Central China and grew up in Beijing, where his father served in the military. He studied at both Nankai High School, where Zhou Enlai was a classmate, and at Tsinghua University. In 1923, he earned a master's degree in economics from Grinnell College and, in 1926, a doctoral degree in political science from Princeton University. - Jin Yuelin
Jin Yuelin (1895-1984) was a Chinese philosopher and logician. He was born in Changsha, Hunan, attended Tsinghua University from 1911-1914, obtained Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1920. In 1926, Jin founded the Department of Philosophy in Tsinghua University. Among the first to systematically introduce modern logic into China, … - Chao Ko
Chao Ko was a mathematician born in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1933 and obtained his doctorate from Manchester University under Louis Mordell in 1937. His main fields of study were algebra, number theory and combinatorics. Some of his major contributions included his work on quadratic forms, the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem and his breakthrough on Catalan's conjecture. He was later a professor at Sichuan University. - Kristie Lu Stout
Kristie Lu Stout is an American journalist and news anchor for CNN International. As of 2007, she is the host of CNN's monthly program "Global Office", and co-hosts the daily "CNN Today" with Hugh Riminton, which earned her a 2006 Asian Television Award as Best News Presenter or Anchor. Stout previously hosted CNN's technology program "Spark" and their daily "Tech Watch" segment, wrote the "Beijing Byte" column for the "South China Morning Post", … - Tsiang Tingfu
Tsiang Tingfu, Chinese historian and diplomat. Tsiang was born in Shaoyang in Hunan province. In 1911, he was sent to study in the United States, where he attended the Park Academy, Oberlin College and Columbia University. After obtaining a Ph.D. in history at Columbia, he returned to China in 1923, where he first took up a position at Nankai University and then at Tsinghua University. At Tsinghua, he became the head of the History Department, … - Zhou Ziqi
Zhou Ziqi 周自齊 (1871–1923), was a Chinese politician in the late Qing dynasty and early republican period. He was born in Guangzhou and spoke Cantonese but he later moved back to his ancestral province of Shandong. He received higher education in the United States at Columbia University. He became superintendent of Tsinghua University in 1911. The following year, he secured Shandong for Yuan Shikai and later became its military governor. - Chih-Kung Jen
C. K. Jen was an internationally respected Chinese physicist who emigrated to the U.S. and participated in some of the twentieth century's major scientific, political and social developments in both the United States and China. Born in a mud house in a remote and largely illiterate village in China, he was awarded a scholarship funded as a result of the Boxer Rebellion of the late 1800s to attend Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University. - Liang Shih-Chiu
Liang Shih-chiu (born January 6, 1903, died November 3, 1987), a renowned educator, writer, translator, literary theorist and lexicographer, was educated at Tsinghua College in Beijing (1915-1923). He went on to study at Colorado College and later pursued his graduate studies at Harvard and Columbia Universities. At Harvard, he studied literary criticism under Irving Babbitt, whose New Humanism helped shape his conservative literary tenets. - Xu Dishan
Xu Dishan (1893-1941) was a native Fujian Province. After obtaining a BA degree from the Yenching University, he continued his studies at Columbia University and Oxford University. He is remembered as an educationalist and professor at Yenching University, Peking University and Tsinghua University. His association with Hong Kong began in 1936 when he was appointed by Hong Kong University to be dean of the department of Chinese literature. - Weng Wenhao
Weng Wenhao (1889 - 27th Jan. 1971) was a Chinese geologist, educator, and paramount politician. He was one of the earliest morden Chinese geologists, and is regarded as the founder of modern Chinese geology and the father of modern Chinese oil industry in many literature. He once served as the President of the Executive Yuan of Nationalist Government from May to Nov. 1948 during the ROC period. - Weichang Chien
WeiChang Chien, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Dr. WeiChang Chien, a renowned scientist and educationist, the President of Shanghai University. He was born in Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, China, on October 9, 1913. After graduating from Tsinghua University in 1935, he entered the Graduate School of Tsinghua University and became an intern researcher at the National Central Research Institute under the guidance of Prof. Wu Youxun. He obtained Ph. - Brent Deverman
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Ken Goldman , Director Ken Goldman has served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration, and Chief Financial Officer of Siebel Systems since August 2000. Prior to Siebel Systems, he served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Excite@Home.
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