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Charles Kao wins the physics NobelPosted by Joel Martinsen, October 7, 2009 1:27 PM
Charles K. Kao (高锟), a pioneer in fiber-optic communications, was named one of three laureates for this year's Nobel Prize in physics. Kao was born in Shanghai and now resides in Hong Kong, after doing his groundbreaking work in Britain and the United States in the 1960s. His China connections put him on the front page of many of today's newspapers. The photo that ran in City Woman Post (都市女报) shows Kao and his wife in 2004 at Princeton University, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate. The headline: "Ethnic Chinese scientist Charles Kao wins the Nobel Prize for physics." Not everyone feels that this is front-page material: Kao may have been born in China, but his work was done overseas and he does not hold Chinese citizenship. On his popular Sina microblog, media personality Huang Jianxiang discussed the mainland media's fixation on the Chinese heritage of Nobel laureates in a series of increasingly sarcastic updates:
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Comments on Charles Kao wins the physics Nobel
Speaking of masturbation by Chinese media...I think you should cover this story:
http://digg.com/d316Ske
Huang definitely hit the nail on the head. Kao is definitely no Chinese.
But maybe the CCP can lure him back with enticements like a grand villa...a black Audi with driver...better than average salary at some State Suppressed lab or think tank...permanent residency(!)...and lots of xiao jies.
OR would he not want to go back as a lot of decent Chinese were burned quite badly when they returned to help the cause in the late 40s and 50s??
First, there was not that many newspaper that put it on the front page. You used "City woman post" as an example.
I also wouldn't call this "media masturbation", as much as I wouldn't call media noting that Obama is African American, "masturbation". It's not like the newspaper bragged about the Chinese race or self-congratulated the achievements of the Chinese education system.
Hu, Kao made the cover of at least a couple dozen Chinese newspapers yesterday. Nobel winners in other disciplines (or heck, even Kao's co-laureates) were not given the same treatment.
>Nobel winners in other disciplines were not given the same treatment.
Just a reminder, there was already a 100% Chinese Nobel price winner which made us so proud: link
Yeah, obviously they are not given the same treatment, because Kao is a special case where he could be considered ethnically Chinese and people are interested in that fact. But no where in those report are a sense of self-congratulation on the progress of the education system of China or a sense that the Chinese ethnicity is superior or a sense that everyone is a part of his achievements. So again I wouldn't interpret this as Chinese being arrogant and pompous fools who are delusional about their status and progress.
reader: also a good chance that China could get another prize winner today when the peace prize is announced. if so, somehow doubt that it will make the newspaper front covers.
"China could get another prize winner today when the peace prize is announced."
Only if they can find a way to claim that Obama is ethnically Chinese.