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...appears in a movie, the newspapers print her picture with the caption 'Anna May again loses face for China.'" He wasn't exaggerating. When Shanghai Express played in the city it supposedly was set in, a local newspaper called Wong "the female traitor to China," and a journal in Tianjin carried the headline: "Paramount Uses Anna May Wong to Embarrass China Again." Apparently not realizing that the villain Chang was a Communist, and Wong's Hui Fei, though a prostitute, was a brave Nationalist who kills Chang to save China, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government banned the film. Said...
DIED. SHIING-SHEN CHERN, 93, mathematician whose "new geometry" theories on how the curvature of a surface can help determine an object's shape influenced fields from theoretical physics to computer graphics; in Tianjin, China. As a teacher, Chern was also influential--so much so that Robert Uomini, a former student of his at the University of California, Berkeley, set up a chair for him at the school with funds from the $22 million Uomini won in the California state lottery...
...DIED. SHIING-SHEN CHERN, 93, mathematician whose "new geometry" theories on how the curvature of a surface can help determine an object's shape influenced fields from theoretical physics to computer graphics; in Tianjin, China. As a teacher, Chern was also influential?so much so that Robert Uomini, a former student of his at the University of California, Berkeley, set up a chair for him at the school with funds from the $22 million Uomini won in the California state lottery...
...Born in Tianjin, China, Skiotis was educated in Greece and in the United States before taking up his post at Harvard, and then eventually returned to Greece to serve as president of Athens College from...
...Born in Tianjin, China, Skiotis was educated in Greece and in the United States before taking up his post at Harvard, and then eventually returned to Greece to serve as president of Athens College from...