Beijing, April 8, 2014, — Professor Shi Yigong, Dean of School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2014 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ Annual Meeting on March 31. He is the first scientist from China who has won the Prize since it was established in 1979.
Prof. Shi Yigong (left) receives the Aminoff Prize.
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Tsinghua’s Shi Yigong Awarded Aminoff Prize 2014
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Tips for Finding Full-time Positions in Asia
Thanks to everyone who participated in our GC APD WebEx session, hope you found it informative and encouraging!
Hong Kong is home to headquarters of many international companies (file photo).
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Peach Blossom at 10,000 Feet from Linzhi, Tibet
By Wang Jian, bostonese.com columnist
I made a visit to Linzhi, Tibet during the Tomb Sweeping Day long weekend. Beautiful Linzhi Prefecture, famous as the Switzerland of Tibet, is located in the southeastern part of Tibetan Autonomous Region, in the lower reach of Yalu Zangbu River, bordering India and Burma. It covers an area of 117,000 square kilometers. The average altitude of Linzhi is approximately 3,000 meters, or close to 10,000 feet. Many tourists arrived in Linzhi this past weekend to see the beautiful peach blossom in the back drop of deep blue skies and snow covered mountains.
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Celebrity Infidelity Reflects the Rising Trend of Divorce in China
By Yang Wanli, He Na and Zhang Lei (China Daily)
Actor Wen Zhang and his actress wife Ma Yili attend a film festival in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, in 2012. Wen made headlines recently after he admitted having an affair with another actress. [Photo / Xinhua]
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The First Lady’s Travel Journal: Visiting Ancient City Xi’an
Note: This post is part of a series authored by First Lady Michelle Obama to share her visit to China with young people in the U.S. You can read all of the First Lady’s posts atWhiteHouse.gov/First-Lady-China-Trip.
Xi’an, China, — March 24, 2014, — This morning we left Beijing and flew for about two hours to Xi’an, a city of more than 7 million people in central China. If Xi’an were in America, it would be the second-largest city in the country – trailing only New York City – but in China, a nation of more than 1 billion people, Xi’an isn’t even in the top ten.
First Lady Michelle Obama, Sasha, Malia and Marian Robinson tour the Terra Cotta Warriors in Xi’an, China on March 24, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)
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Chinese Dramas and the Need for Narrative Reinvention
By Alyza Liu, bostonese.com
In the waning months of 2013 and the waxing ones of 2014, the Korean television drama You Who Came from the Stars (also translated as My Love from the Star, Man from Another Star) made large waves in East and Southeast Asia. Its premise was offbeat – an alien who’s been living in relative anonymity on the Korean Peninsula for almost three centuries meets a Hallyu star – but its charm was undeniable, combining science fiction with romance and even police procedural. You Who Came from the Stars was one of the most popular South Korean dramas (colloquially known as ‘kdramas’) to have aired in China recently.
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Michelle Obama’s Journal from China: Meeting with Students at PKU
Note: This post is part of a series authored by First Lady Michelle Obama to share her visit to China with young people in the U.S. You can read all of the First Lady’s posts at WhiteHouse.gov/First-Lady-China-Trip.
This morning, I had the privilege of visiting Peking University and speaking with Chinese students and American students studying abroad here in China. Peking University was founded more than a hundred years ago, in 1898, and it is one of China’s best-known universities. The American students in the audience today came from a number of different universities, and by studying here in China, they get to experience daily life in this country firsthand, practice their Chinese, and form lifelong friendships with Chinese students.
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers a speech at Peking University (from twitter).
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Natural-product-based Inhibitor to Treat Parkinson Identified by Chinese Researchers
By Wu Fang, Research Institute of Systems Biomedicine
Shanghai, March 20, 2014, –A novel natural-product-based inhibitor for the treatment of Parkinson has been identified from the endemic plant in Xishuangbanna as a result of the interdisciplinary cooperation between biology and chemistry, led by Wu Fang research group, from Shanghai Jiaotong University(SJTU) Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, and Zhang Weidong research group, from School of Pharmacy. The findings have been published on the ACS Chemical Biology, a well-known periodical of American Chemical Society (ACS).
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The First Lady’s Journal from China: Our Official Visit Begins
Note: This post is part of a series authored by First Lady Michelle Obama to share her visit to China with young people in the U.S. You can read all of the First Lady’s posts at WhiteHouse.gov/First-Lady-China-Trip.
After a long flight from Washington, D.C. – one that took around 20 hours – my mother, my daughters, and I arrived in Beijing to begin our official visit to China. Our first stop was at the Beijing Normal School, where we were hosted by Madam Peng Liyuan, the First Lady of China.
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Michelle Obama Arrives in Beijing on First Day of Spring
(from ecns.cn)Beijing, March 20, 2014, –After a long journey from Washington, US first lady Michelle Obama landed in Beijing on Thursday evening, starting her long-awaited trip to China with a big smile and a wave.
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