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China's Heroes

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Wang Xuan: Father of Laser Photo Typesetting System

From 1987 to 1993, China's press and printing industry underwent great technical reform, bidding farewell to traditional letterpress printing while greeting the era of photo typesetting by computer. This huge development can be credited to Professor Wang Xuan, of Peking (Beijing ) University's Computer Research Institute.

It was Wang who invented the Chinese character laser-photo-typesetting system that has led Chinese character printing into the electrical and digital age. Hence, being recognized as having made the most significant contributions to the modernization of China's press and printing industry, he has been hailed as the "Bi Sheng of the Modern Times" and the "Father of the Chinese character laser-photo-typesetting system."

  Wang Xuan's Life Journey

Wang Xuan was born in East China's Shanghai Municipality in 1937. At the age of 17, he was admitted to Peking University and began his study as a major in Mathematics and Mechanics in 1954. Upon graduation in 1958, he stayed at his alma mater and became a teacher of the Mathematics and Mechanic Department. A year later, he transferred to the Radio Department, where he stayed until 1978.

  Enormous Contributions to China's Press and Printing Industry

During his first ten years of work at his alma mater after graduation, Wang accumulated practical experiences in the fields of computer software and hardware. So in 1961, he started his research on the combination of software and hardware, undertaking the exploration of a high-level language programming system.

  Turning the Technology into a Commodity

In the early 1980s, Wang started the process of industrializing his life's work, as well as the exploration of a marketing approach combining production, education, and research. In 1988, the laser photo-typesetting system became a mature commodity. From 1988 to 1993, the product was popularized via market sales, with a sales volume of more than 10,000 units, not to mention exports to 10 countries and regions.

  A Devotee of Science

Wang Xuan firmly believes that the pleasure from scientific research, which can be a very enjoyable experience, is the greatest reward for him. For decades, he has been devoting all his energy to the scientific cause, which he loves most.

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2007-1-10 11:54 PM

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yes,WANG XUAN is a great man!
and welcome to www.foreignercn.com.

2007-1-11 09:19 PM

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Peter Chan, or Chan Ho-sun (陳可辛; born in 1962 in Hong Kong) is a film director and producer.

He spent his teens in Bangkok, Thailand and studied in the United States, where he attended film school at UCLA. He returned to Hong Kong in 1983 and started working in the film industry. He served as a second assistant director and producer to John Woo on Heroes Shed No Tears, which was set in Thailand. He also was a location manager on three Jackie Chan films, Wheels on Meals, The Protector and Armour of God.

His directorial debut, Alan and Eric: Between Hello and Goodbye, was crowned best film at the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild in 1991. It also won best actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Eric Tsang, who would become a frequent collaborator with Chan.

Chan was a co-founder of United Filmmakers Organization (UFO) in the early 1990s, which produced a number of box-office and critical hits in Hong Kong, including his own: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father. Other critical and commercial successes followed, including Tom, Dick And Hairy, He's a Woman, She's a Man and Comrades, Almost a Love Story.

In the late 1990s, Chan worked in Hollywood, directing The Love Letter, which starred Kate Capshaw, Ellen DeGeneres and Tom Selleck.

In 2000, Chan co-founded Applause Pictures with Teddy Chen and Allan Fung. The company's focus was on fostering ties with pan-Asian filmmakers, producing such films as Jan Dara by Thailand's Nonzee Nimibutr, One Fine Spring Day South Korea's Hur Jin-Ho, Samsara by China's Huang Jianxin, The Eye by Danny and Oxide Pang and cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

Chan's 2005 film, the musical Perhaps Love closed the Venice Film Festival and was Hong Kong's entry for an Academy Awards nomination in the best foreign film category.

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Would anyone like to nominate someone they think of as a hero?

2007-1-11 11:52 PM

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Su Wu

Su Wu (ca. 140-60 B.C.)
Han Dynasty

Su Wu was a Han diplomatic envoy to the Xiongnu. He was held hostage by the Xiongnu and pressed to defect. However, he refused and in an attempt to break his will, the Xiongnu subjected him to extreme hardship. Su Wu, steadfast in his loyalty to the Han, refused to join the Xiongnu and instead won the admiration of other defected Han officials working with the Xiongnu. After 20 years in captivity, the Xiongnu relented and sent him home in 81 B.C. He returned an old man but was celebrated in his old age and posthumously by the Han dynasty and suceeding generations.

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2007-1-16 07:49 AM

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Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan (???-278 B.C.)
State of Chu, Warring States Period

In 299 BC after several unsuccessful attempts to conquer the state of
Chu, the state of Qin invited the King of Chu over for talks. The Poet
Qu Yuan, who was a minister in the Chu court at the time, feared this
was a trap and urged his king not to go. The latter would not listen
and accused Qu Yuan of war-mongering and was banished from the
state. On the way to the talks, the King of Chu was seized by Qin
troops and died in captivity three years later. Chu came under the rule
of the king's eldest son, later known as King Qing Xiang who brought
Qu Yuan back into the service of the state. However, under the new
King, the state administration rapidly deteriorated in mismanagement
and corruption.

Qu Yuan hoped to institute reforms and in his poems, satirized the
corruption, selfishness and disregard for the people on the part of
dubious characters who had achieved trusted positions in the Imperial
Court. Neither this nor Qu Yuan's resolve to resist Qin set well with
King Qing Xiang who was married to a daughter of the King of Qin. In
296 BC. Qu Yuan then in his mid 50s, was banished for the second
time. Grieving for his homeland, he wandered about south of the Chang
Jiang for many years. During this time he poured out his feelings of
grief and concern for his state in the "Li Sao", a long autobiographical
poem in which he tells of his political ideal and the corruption and
mismanagement of the Chu court.

In 280 BC Qin launched an overall invasion of Chu and in 278 BC had
captured the capital. This news reached Qu Yuan while he was near
the Miluo River in northeastern Hunan province. Frustrated at not being
able to do anything to save his state, he clasped a big stone to his
breast and leaped into the river to end his life.

Qu Yuan's sufferings gained the sympathy of the people of Chu. In
memory of him, every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar
calendar, the day he drowned himself, dragonboat races, are held to
represent the search for his body. The Chinese also eat zongzi, little
packets of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaf, which are thrown into
the river to keep the fishes from eating his body.

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Chiang Kai-shek

NAME CHIANG KAI SHEK
YEAR October 31, 1887–April 5, 1975
DYNASTY ROC

Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the 1925 death of Sun Yat-sen. He led the national government of the Republic of China from 1928 to 1975. He began his military education at the Baoding Military Academy, in 1906, attended the Military State Academy in Japan in 1907. Chiang Kai-shek served in the Imperial Japanese Army from 1909 to 1911. He commanded the Northern Expedition to unify China against the warlords and emerged victorious in 1928 as the overall leader of the Republic of China (ROC). Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which Chiang's stature within China weakened, but his international prominence grew. During the Chinese Civil War (1927–1949), Chiang attempted to eradicate the Chinese Communists, but ultimately failed, forcing his government to retreat to Taiwan, where he continued serving as the President of the Republic of China and Director-General of the KMT for the remainder of his life.

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2007-1-16 07:55 AM

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Lei Feng

Lei Feng (雷锋; Léi Fēng)
(December 18, 1940 - August 15, 1962)

A soldier of the People's Liberation Army of the PRC. He was characterized by propaganda as a selfless and modest figure after his death and consequently was an idol to many. Today Lei continues to serve as the idol to elementary school students who commemorate and "learn from" him in everyday life, and has become a resilient cultural icon, with many t-shirts printed with his picture on the front.

Born in Wangcheng, Hunan (near the Town of Leifeng, Changsha, Hunan, named in his honour), Lei joined the Communist youth corps when he was very young. Lei died in 1962 at the age of 22, when a telephone pole, struck by an army truck, killed him, when he was directing the truck in backing up. After Lei's death, Mao Zedong began what was to be known as the *"Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" (向雷锋同志学习) Campaign, designed to use Lei as a good example to the Chinese people to be cheerfully selfless and noble in thought.

* the Chinese word 学习, when translated literally, can be "to learn, or learn" however, given this context, it means something like "to follow", therefore, the slogan/phrase 向雷锋同志学习 means more of something like "follow the examples of comrade Lei-Feng."

Since, March 5th has become the official "Learn from Lei Feng Day". This day involves various community and school events where people go clean up parks, schools, and other community locations. Local news on that day usually has footage from these events.

Lei's most recognizable image in popular culture is in t-shirt, he's in the same category as other revolutionary symbols including Mao Zedong and Che Guevera at street vendors. Some Lei Feng t-shirts have made their way into the United States as well. Hayden Christensen's character in the movie Life as a House is wearing a Lei Feng t-shirt.

In March 2006, China released a game titled, "Learn From Lei Feng Online," where the player has to do good deeds, fight spies, and collect parts of Mao Zedong's collection. If the player wins, they get to meet Chairman Mao in the game.

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Qian Xuesen

NAME : Qian Xuesen
YEAR : 1911- ? ( a living hero !!!)
DYNASTY : PRC (Dynasty is not a appropriate word here)
SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENT/S

A scientist who was a major figure of space programs of USA and PRC.
During World War 2 served in the US Army as Liutenant Colonel and helped US to design and develop ballistic missile. He cofounded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1944 with Theodore von Karman.
Goddard Professor of Caltech. One of leading rocket scientists in the US pre 1950
After being deported due to red scare program of McCarthy in 1955, after confined in house arrest for five years he established Instute of Mechanics and trained Chinese engineers. Then he fathered Chinese rockets. Qian was responsible for Dongfeng and Silkworm missile design and development. Qian research is the basis of Long March rockets which successfully launched the first Chinese manned spacecraft Shenzhou V in 2003.

Qian was awarded Caltech`s Distinguished Alumni in 1979

2007-1-16 08:03 AM

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Ji Xiaolan

NAME : Ji Xiaolan

YEAR : 1724 - 1805

DYNASTY : Ching Dynasty

SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENT/S :
Ji Xiao-lan was a distinguished scholar and a high ranking official in the imperial court of Emperor Qian Lung of the Ching Dynasty. He was the chief editor of the encyclopaedic collection of Chinese books known as "Shi Ku Quan Shu". (The Complete Library of The Four Treasuries).

2007-1-16 08:06 AM

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Li Shimin

Li Shimin 李世民 (599-649)
Emperor Taizong of Tang China

Under his reign, the famous rule of Zhenguan (貞觀之治) took place (his era name was Zhenguan). It was the peak of the Tang Dynasty. Conquered once mighty Eastern Turkic Khanate and allowed Tang to become the major power in the region.

Li Shimin: A Peerless Emperor

For the thousands of years prior to the downfall of the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, the rulers of slave and feudal societies in China had exercised absolute autocracy, wherein a single person had supreme power over the law and the nation. This supreme figure was thus arbiter of the course of the historic development, and therefore the fate of the country, as well as the wellbeing of its population. For thousands of years, ruthless and tyrannical rulers inflicted misery and disaster upon the Chinese nation, and one who was competent and humane was both longed for and cherished by the ordinary people as an embodiment of their hope for the future.

Li Shimin, a preeminent emperor in Chinese history, was born in 598. His father and grandfather had both been high-ranking officials during the Sui Dynasty (581-618). Li's childhood was during a period of turmoil. In 605, when Li was 7, Yang Guang, the second emperor of the Sui Dynasty, ascended the throne. This emperor soon became notorious for his debauched lifestyle and cruelty. He squandered the state treasury on lavish imperial buildings, and forced countless people into corvee labor, all of which eventually led to a peasant uprising in 611.

This uprising signaled rebellion and mutiny throughout China. Li Shimin consequently grew up amidst political turbulence and clique intrigue. In 615, at the age of 17, he urged his father, Li Yuan, then a military commander stationed in Taiyuan, to go with the flow of this historic climax and rise against the Sui emperor. Three years later, Li Yuan became the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Stability and solidarity were the top priorities of this new dynasty, and Li Shimin was obviously endowed with both military and political ingenuity. In the course of helping his father stabilize the nation Li Shimin established a strong military force, as well as a large think-tank of expertise in different fields. In 626, at the age of 28, he succeeded his father as emperor.

Li changed the title of his reign to Zhenguan and retained the throne for 23 years. He brought about a new era that laid foundations for the great prosperity, development and progress with which the Tang Dynasty became associated in later years. The period of his rule, known as the "Zhenguan Governance," is acknowledged as a milestone in Chinese history. This reign has rich connotations, being regarded by historians and politicians alike as the model for successful government, while to ordinary people it is synonymous with a happy life.

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Robin Li

Robin Li (Li, Yanhong, 李彦宏) is a Chinese entrepreneur. He in 1999 founded Baidu, with Eric Xu. He is now CEO of Baidu.

Before returning to China in 1999, he studied and worked in the USA. After graduating in the early 1990s from the Management Department of Peking University's Management Department, he took a computer science master's degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He worked for a time at the Wall Street Journal, on their website, and at Infoseek.

Baidu (Chinese: 百度; pinyin: bǎi dù) (NASDAQ: BIDU) is a Chinese search engine which can search text and images. As of January 2007, since at least as early as May 2006, it is fourth in Alexa's internet rankings.[1], and the largest search engine used in China, with a market share of 52 percent.[2]

Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images and 10 million multimedia files.[3]

The name of Baidu was inspired by a Song Dynasty poem constructed in the ci form, written by Xin Qiji in the 12th century. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. Hundreds and thousands of times, for him I searched in chaos; suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there he stood. (众里寻他千百度。蓦然回首，那人却在，灯火阑珊处。) Baidu, literally meaning hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.

Baidu's most popular feature is its support for multimedia search, called "MP3 Search". It can locate file formats such as MP3, WMA and SWF. The multimedia search feature is mainly used in searches for Chinese pop music. While such works are copyrighted under Chinese law, Baidu is technically not breaking any laws according to their interpretations of Chinese law as stated on their Legalese page.

See: Intellectual property in the People's Republic of China

Yahoo! China recently offered a similar service.

Baidu uses the same "pay-per-click" model for ad revenues as Google.

Other than images and text search, Baidu provides several other services:

* Baidu Zhidao: A Q&A service
* Baidu Post: A discussion group service based on keywords - upon entering a keyword, the user is taken to an existing discussion thread, or given the option of creating a new thread (similar to Google Base)

Baidu.com had its initial public offering (IPO) the morning of Friday, 5 August 2005. [4] Baidu.com opened at $27/share. At the close of Nasdaq trading on that Friday, Baidu.com shares closed at $122.54, up $95.54 from its opening price (a gain of 353%). However, over the next few trading days, Baidu stock pulled back rapidly, closing at $91.75 on August 10. Baidu.com has been called the "Google of China". Google was a shareholder in Baidu.com and owned 2.6% of the company until June 2006.[5]

On September 14, 2005, the stock plunged 24% on the Nasdaq after two analysts said it was "overpriced."

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2007-1-20 12:22 AM

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Lai Changxing.(spelling) Modernday Robin Hood. Made millions and gave millions to the poor in Fujian. Paved roads, pumped up pensions, built schools, built stadiums and retirement villas. All from a ditch-digger to a king!!
He is a megaman!!

2007-1-20 02:32 AM

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only heroes ? what about the one in china ? mr deng the major economic acrchitect

2007-1-22 01:28 PM

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Qin Wenbo

China's Manned spaceship equipped with 52 engines

One leading engineer designing China's first manned spaceship said Wednesday in Jiuquan that Shenzhou-5 was equipped with 52 engines, which ensures its precise move and orbit keeping.

Qin Wenbo, vice chief engineer of the spaceship, said that designing the spaceship's propulsion systems was one of the most demanding tasks.

"It's very difficult to decide when we should ignite the engines and how long they should work," said Qin, who is also vice chief engineer of Shanghai Aerospace Institute.

A total of 28 engines were installed in the propulsion module, eight in the re-entry module and the rest in the orbit module, Qin said.

"After repeated tests since China launched its first spaceship, Shenzhou," Qin said, "it has been proved that our propulsion systems are reliable."

Engineers have also installed two cameras in the re-entry module, which is expected to transmit audio and video signals to the ground command and control center.

Qin said that the headquarters could not only talk to the astronaut, but also monitor physical data of the nation's first spaceman.

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Originally posted by suchuhui80 at 2007-1-22 13:28
only heroes ? what about the one in china ? mr deng the major economic acrchitect

Can you provide some more details?

2007-1-23 04:16 AM

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Jiang Suchun

Jiang Suchun

A true story about fight against SARS
( 2003-05-14 15:00 ) (9)

Jiang Suchun, a 74-year-old expert of infectious disease at the 302 Hospital of the PLA in Beijing, contracted Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) when he fought the deadly epidemic, but that did not stop him from continuing with his crusade. Jiang conducted bold SARS treatment experiments on himself, injecting the blood serum of recovered SARS patients into his own body. After 23 days of self-treatment, Jiang miraculously recovered, and a new way of treating SARS patients was found. His unremitting efforts won high praise from Hu Jintao, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

　　At around 8:00 pm on March 7, Beijing's first SARS patient was sent to the 302 Hospital. Jiang Suchun received a phone call from a hospital official, asking him to go back to hospital. Be fully aware of the danger of the epidemic, Jiang did not hesitate and rushed to the hospital.

　　Considering Jiang's physical condition, hospital leaders arranged for him to direct the rescue operation outside the emergency room. But Jiang would not comply, saying, "as a serviceperson, how can I not go to the frontline in a war?" He then applied two layers of gauze padding under his mask and entered the emergency room. The rescue operation lasted for 80 minutes, but the patient failed to respond and died.

　　Determined to find the source of the disease as soon as possible, Jiang proposed a discussion on SARS and prepared for the autopsy immediately. It was not until midnight that Jiang retired for the day. When the second group of patients arrived at the hospital two days later, Jiang went back to the emergency room again.

　　On the evening of March 14, Jiang suddenly felt a chill. He knew that he had been infected by the disease.

　　Calmly, Jiang went to the hospital for a check-up, and the result was positive for SARS. The following day his body temperature rose to 39 C.

　　Seeing that Jiang has devoted the larger part of his life to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, and has saved numerous patients suffering from deadly epidemics, the hospital staff felt very worried and was willing to do anything to save him.

　　 At this crucial moment, Jiang announced calmly: "As a doctor, I cannot serve the patients for the time being, but as a patient, I would like to do experiments on myself to find out cure for SARS."

　　In spite of high fever, Jiang did not stop his work and proposed to inject the serum of recovered SARS patients into the body of SARS sufferers in order to spur the production of an antibody.

　　Since there was no precedent for such an idea (injecting blood is extremely dangerous), Jiang volunteered to be the first. After much deliberation, the hospital authority accepted Jiang's proposal and sent several doctors to collect the serum of recovered SARS patients in Guangzhou.

　　 On March 22, the serum was injected into Jiang's body, and he was also treated with other medicines. Jiang was miraculously recovered.

　　During the period of convalescence, Jiang requested to be discharged from the hospital several times, arguing that, as the SARS situation in Beijing was worsening, he was determined to return to the front immediately. But hospital authorities did not agree. Bed-ridden, Jiang then organized the doctors and nurses to write a thesis on the treatment of SARS.

　　Based on his personal experience, Jiang helped the physicians to write an article entitled "One example of curing senior SARS patients." After that Jiang himself wrote "The enlightenment of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome to infectious disease doctors." In addition, Jiang wrote several articles for the publicity of knowledge on prevention of SARS for several newspapers. During his 23 days in hospital, Jiang wrote nine articles on the prevention and possible cure for SARS.

　　In early April, a recovered Jiang left the hospital, telling reporters: "The fact that I, a SARS patient, have recovered quickly proves that SARS is not fearsome. It is preventable and curable."

　　Jiang's high spirits greatly inspired medical workers who vowed to learn from Jiang and make greater contributions to the fight against SARS.

　　(April 25, PLA Daily)

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2007-1-23 05:37 PM

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Zhu Rongji

ZHU RONGJI

Zhu Rongji

Zhu Rongji, Premier of the State Council of China since 1998-2003, is recognized as a great economic planner because of his achievements of successful macro-economic control in the past three years.

Zhu was born in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan Province. He joined the Party in October 1949. After graduation from the prestigious Qinghua University where he majored in electrical engineering, he served as deputy head of the production planning office of the Northeast China Ministry of Industries. He then worked in the State Planning Commission and the State Economic Commission for years, where he was acknowledged as an official who "knows economics."

In 1987, Zhu was appointed mayor of Shanghai, China's largest industrial and financial city. His three-year term as Shanghai mayor saw tremendous changes in the development and opening-up of Pudong, and in telecommunications, urban construction and communications. For these he won confidence inside and outside the Party and acclaim from the common people.

In 1991, Zhu was appointed vice-premier of the State Council and director of the State Council Production Office. Zhu Rongji has focused his attention on tackling tough economic problems in industry, agriculture and finance.

In his first news conference as premier, Zhu Rongji detailed a bold plan for trimming the bureaucracy and revitalizing education by the turn of the century.

The eight-point effort called for a moderate economic growth rate of 8 percent, while keeping inflation below 3 percent and ensuring the stability of the national currency.

At the same time, Zhu said he will overhaul five sectors of the economy, including agriculture, banking and the tax system.

Zhu started with an overhaul of the nation's bloated bureaucracy and a 50 percent cut in the number of government workers.

With the government put in line, Zhu turned his attention to the economy and money-losing state-owned enterprises.

Zhu said, "Large and medium-sized enterprises will be lifted out of their current difficult situation and we will establish modern enterprise systems in these companies."

When Deng Xiaoping, the de facto leader of the People's Republic of China, started economic reforms in 1978, he looked for like-minded economic advisors and sought out Zhu. Deng politically rehabilitated Zhu on the strength of Zhu's forward-thinking and bold economic ideas. Deng once said that Zhu "has his own views, dares to make decisions and knows economics."

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Cui Jian

CUI JIAN

In 1980s when most Chinese had little knowledge of rock music, Cui Jian, born in August 1961 in Beijing and known as father of China's rock music, presented his two rock songs to rock fans across China: Rock on the New March, and Restart. Wherever Cui Jian and his band gave their performance, they were greeted with large audiences' crazy hailing and rocking, and his sound controller had to switch the music sound to a volume as high as 150d. With the strong beat of Penniless, Red Cloth, False Monk, the Girl in Flower Shop, Cui Jian shouted out his feelings about the world around him, arousing enormous resonance among his fans. Media then said, "Rock rightly satisfies the demand of his generation to speak out what they feel." Rock has in a certain sense become a new type of criticism of the existing social problems in China.

Rock in China was first introduced by Cui Jian in 1986. He harmoniously merged the strong beat of Western music into the local folk music in North Shanxi Province on the Huangtu Plateau. His Penniless, which was once sung all over China, is the first rock song in China.

Before singing his Penniless, Cui Jian was a little-known trumpet performer in Beijing Symphony Orchestra, where he concentrated upon performing only world-famous tunes. In his leisure time, he held his favorite guitar and imitated those Western rock stars.

After Rock on the New March, he created his Not That I Don't Know Your Heart, Give Me a Good Sleep, Last Shot, and Loneliness Is a Fire, which stirred more high waves among audiences. In spite of this, he received both praise and criticism for such traditional revolutionary songs as Nanniwan.

Since May 1986, Cui Jian, with his unique and refreshing songs and voice and style, has won over large audiences from stars in Hang Kong and Taiwan. What's more, his songs have even appealed to a tremendous number of mid-aged Chinese intellectuals, who suffered a lot on their journey through the Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976.

Following Cui Jian, there came on to stage the rock bands like Tang Dynasty, Panther, Cobra, Hard Stone.

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Mao Zedong

MAO ZEDONG

Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) was a Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, poet, and statesman who led China's communist revolution after decades of foreign occupation and civil war in the 20th century. Following the Communist Party of China’s military victory over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, Mao announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949 in Beijing.

Mao Zedong was a very practical person before 1949. He did many thorough investigations about China and he developed his theories based on his studies. He was so successful in his early years that people worshipped him and everyone loved him.

Things changed after 1949. Mao was a great thinker, but he had no respect to any existing laws. Basically he was the law and he could not allow anybody else to chanllenge him. He challenged and destroyed the traditional Chinese culture, good and bad. He gave woman the same right as man, but destroyed the traditional value of woman. This also made him very unrealistic, as he said in a poem, "Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day." The Great Leap Forward (1958) is a direct result of such thinking.

Mao pursued the ideal of strong and prosperous China, endeavoring to build a modern, industrialized nation. However, the failings of Mao's most significant socio-political programs — including the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution — are considered by many people to have led to the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese people.

Until his death, Mao maintained control of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China through both political acumen and a cult of personality, the latter resulting in such sobriquets as Grand Helmsman and Saviour of China.

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