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Wu, Chien-Shiung b. May 27, 1912 d. February 16, 1997
Physicist. Acclaimed nuclear scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb; she also helped develop a better Geiger counter. Born near Shanghai, China, she emigrated to the United States in 1936 and received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1940. Joined the Manhattan Project early in World War II where she helped develop a process to enrich uranium ore to produce the fuel for the atomic bomb. Accepted a position at Columbia University in...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Mingde High School Grounds, Taicang, Jiangsu, China
Plot: Bronze statue in courtyard
Xuesen, Qian b. December 11, 1911 d. October 31, 2009
Chinese Rocket Scientist. Born in China's Zhejiang Province, he is regarded as the father of China's space and nuclear programs. A 1934 graduate of Jiaotong University in Shanghai, he arrived in the United States the following year after receiving an educational scholarship to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a masters degree in aeronautical engineering while attending MIT, followed by a doctorate degree in aviation and mathematics from the California Institute of...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Plot: Ashes interred
Yibo, Bo b. February 17, 1908 d. January 15, 2007
Politician, Revolutionary Figure. Known as one of the "Eight Immortals," he played a key role in the Chinese Civil War and the 1949 Communist Cultural Revolution. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1925 at the age of 17, and fought in the Second World War against Japanese occupation forces in China. Following the Communists rise to power in 1949, he served in a number of party leadership positions including finance minister, vice premier, deputy prime minister, chairman of the State...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Plot: Ashes interred
Yue, Gu b. 1937 d. July 2, 2005
Actor. Real name Hu Shixue. Born into a poor family, he enlisted in China's People's Liberation Army in 1949. Noted for his uncanny resemblance to Mao Zedong, he rose to fame after playing the Chinese leader in the 1981 film "Xi'an Incident", which depicted the 1936 kidnapping of Chiang Kai-shek by his own generals. He then changed his name to Gu Yue. Yue went on to portray Mao in 84 films between 1981 and 2002. For his roles he won China's Hundred Flowers Award (China's equivalent of the...[Read More] (Bio by: TML)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Yung-lo b. May 2, 1360 d. August 12, 1424
Emperor of China. Born Zhu Di, he was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He ascended the throne on 17 July 1402, and much of his reign was fraught with border disputes. Counter to long-standing Chinese custom, he initiated battles against neighboring nations. During his reign he sent his armies on campaigns against Mongol forces that were remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, and also attempted, but ultimately failed, to make Vietnam a fully fledged province of China. He oversaw a period of...[Read More] (Bio by: Chris Nelson)
Ming Tombs, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Zheng, Chenggong b. 1624 d. 1662
Military Leader. Popularly known as Koxinga, he was a Ming loyalist and anti-Qing rebel commander during the Qing Dynasty's conquest of the Ming. He was born in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother. He studied at Imperial Nanking University, China's principal college during the Ming Dynasty. After the Qing conquest of Beijing in 1644, his father surrendered and his mother died as a result of the Qing army's takeover of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, where...[Read More] (Bio by: Chris Nelson)
Tomb of Zheng Chenggong, Kangdian, Fujian, China
Ziyang, Zhao b. October 17, 1919 d. January 17, 2005
Politician. Born in Honan Province, China, he rose Communist Party ranks to become premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1989 and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1987 to 1989. He championed a number of political and economic reforms but was ousted for his role in creating conditions which led to the student pro-democracy movement; he was stripped of power for supporting the students during their 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests. Lived under...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Zizhen, He
Second wife of Mao ZeDong, they were married in May of 1928 until 1939. Mao married He after his first wife was killed by KMT forces. She was born in Yunshan. He joined the communist party of China in 1926, this is where she met Mao, he was a classmate of her older brother. He and Mao had six children, three boys and three girls, all but one daughter Li Min died at a young age or were raised by other families. He is technically the third wife of Mao, when Mao was 14 his father arranged a...[Read More] (Bio by: Helaine M. Cigal)
Babaoshan Cemetery, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

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