Hong Kong’s leader has said late entertainment mogul Run Run Shaw’s vision of celebrating education and the pursuit of knowledge with his prestigious science prize is central to the city government’s own aspirations. Speaking at the award ceremony for the prestigious Shaw Prize on Tuesday, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also paid his respects to late Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang, who was one of the local award’s founding council members. The award, dubbed the “Nobel... Politics
People pay tribute to Chen Ning Yang at Tsinghua University in Beijing-Xinhua 新华网 Politics
Chen Ning Yang, pioneer of particle physics and Nobel laureate, dies in Beijing at 103 Malay Mail Events
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Chinese novelist Yan Lianke is considered a strong contender to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Yan uses magical and absurd imagery to depict the realities of rural China, particularly the lives of ordinary people in the Mao Zedong era. His awards include the Franz Kafka Prize, the Lao She Literary Award and the Lu Xun Literary Prize. Yan is a professor at Renmin University of China in Beijing and a chair professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In this interview, the... Politics
Exclusive | ‘Literary anarchist’ Yan Lianke on Chinese writers, the Nobel prize and censorship South China Morning Post Politics
Open Questions | ‘Literary anarchist’ Yan Lianke on Chinese writers, the Nobel prize and censorship South China Morning Post Politics
