Chinese with special skill could consider after retirement, never too late, follow your heart, don’t forget your roots 有能之士 退休後可以考慮 不要忘記你的根
Yau Shing-Tung is one of the most brilliant minds in the world. He completed his Ph.D in Math at 22 at Cal, (while funneling his scholarship money to support his mother in China) and became the youngest member of IAS.
He went on to win the Fields medal, the mathematics nobel prize.
His work in differential geometry has advanced modern physics, including creating the foundations for string theory.
Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley: Yau Sing-tung’s return to Qinghua University 清华大学 in Beijing is inevitable. He was a product of 培正中学 in Hong Kong. He will be joining Yang Chen-king 杨振宁, the Nobel laureate in Physics who returned to China Yang was a graduate of Qinghua. Physicist Charles Kuen Kao, the father of fiber optic and a Nobel laureate, returned to the Chinese University in Hong Kong. Chern Shiing-shen 陈省身 of Berkeley, one of the most prominent American mathematicians of the 20th century, also returned to Nankai University 南开大学 in Tianjin. Lee Yuan-the 李远哲, another Nobel laureate in Chemistry from Berkeley, who returned to Taiwan where he was born after decades of teacining in Berkeley for decades. There, he became the president of Academica Sinica 中央研究院, the highest academic institution of Taiwan. I also want to mention that Wang Yinglai 王应睐 who led over 700 scientists in a massive national research project in China that succeeded in synthesizing a protein that came to be known as the insulin in China in 1966. Cambridge wanted him to stay, but he was determined to return to China to serve his motherland with science. (Anyone interested in the fascinating history of this scientific project can read about the discovery in this book, 合成一个蛋白质 by 熊卫民 and 王克迪). He studied biochemistry at Cambridge University with Joseph Needham in the 1950s and helped him launched his subsequent research into the history of science in China. The publication of Needham’s volumes on the history of science in China completely changed the history of science.
Needless to say, most people know the case of Qian Xuesen 钱学森, the father Chinese rockets and missiles, a Caltech professor and founding director of the Pasadena Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), He was persecuted and placed under house-arrest for five years during the McCarthy era until he was allowed to return to China in a prisoners exchange for a dozen U.S. POWs from the Korean War. His right to return to China was made possible by Mao Han-lee 毛汉礼, a Ph. D. In Oceanography, who too was prevented from returning to China upon completion of Ph.D. work by the U.S. government. Mao successfully challenged the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s decision to deny him his right to return to China. Upon his return, he helped found the first institute of oceanography in Shandong province.
Sadly and outrageously, we are now back into an even more repressive era of McCarthyism and massive persecution of and discrimination against Chinese and Chinese American scientists because of our government’s determination to prevent China’s rise by any means necessary, including violating the rights of Chinese and Chinese American scientists. The idiotic and self-destructive policy began during the Obama administration. President Trump vastly expanded the Obama policy at home and abroad. President Biden is pledged to bring down China, even if the policy is repressive and unlawful. The victims of this bipartisan policy is harmful to science, the U.S., and Chinese and Chinese Americans.
Even the NYT has to acknowledge his brilliance:
https://archive.ph/7HBS
https://archive.ph/L6yW9
NewYorker, not so much–the Chinese are copycats, brute force thinkers. scabrous opportunists, and at the end of the day, chinksplaining magpie dunces.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/28/manifold-destiny
Tsinghua’s Yau Mathematics Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMrTtZT1vbk
Other exciting work at Tsinghua
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHthSD29Jw8
Johnson Choi Biz 