List of Peking University people
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This is a list of people associated with Peking University in China. Several notable individuals have been associated with Peking University.
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[edit] Faculty
- Qian Xuantong - linguist
- Gu Hongming - writer
- Chen Duxiu - dean of letters, later co-founder of Communist Party of China
- Lu Xun - writer
- Shen Congwen - writer
- Hu Shih - philosopher and writer
- Lin Yutang - writer
- Fei Xiaotong - researcher of sociology and anthropology
- Wang Xiaobo - writer
- He Weifang - judicial reformist
- Wang Tieya - jurist, Judge of International Criminal Court
- Li Haopei - jurist, Judge of International Criminal Court
- Jian Bozan - historian
[edit] Administrators
- Cai Yuanpei - early university Chancellor
- Yan Fu - early university Chancellor
- Li Dazhao - head librarian, later co-founder of Communist Party of China
[edit] Alumni
[edit] Writers
- Fan Changjiang - journalist and writer
- Feng Youlan - philosopher
- Han Suyin - writer
- Mao Dun - writer and journalist
- Xu Zhimo - poet
- Zhang Chengzhi - writer
- Zhu Ziqing - poet
- Dolma Kyab - writer (currently political prisoner)
- Jan Wong - writer (one of the first western students permitted to study aboard.)
[edit] Academics
- Michael Halliday - developed systemic functional grammar
- Gang Tian - Mathematician
- Li Yining - economist
- Tsung-Dao Lee (Li Zhengdao) - physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 1957)
- Justin Yifu Lin - economist
- Yu Jie - First house church leader to meet an American president (May 2006, meeting George W Bush in the White House)
- Yu Min - physicist, Father of Chinese H-bombs
[edit] In politics
- Bo Xilai - minister of commerce
- Deng Nan - former vice minister of the State Science and Technology CommissionLi
- Hu Chunhua - first secretary of the Communist Youth League
- Hu Deping - vice chairman of All-China General Chamber of Industry & Commerce Party, Secretary of National Association of Industry and Commerce, and vice minister of the Propaganda Department
- Li Keqiang - Politburo Standing Committee member.
- Li Zhaoxing - minister of foreign affairs
- Shen Tong - Author, Pro-democracy activist
- K. Natwar Singh - India politician
- Wang Dan - Leader of the Tiananmen protests in 1989
- Zhang Guotao - early leader in the Communist Party of China
[edit] In commerce and media
- Li Yanhong - founder of baidu.com
- Wang Xuan - founder of Founder Co.
[edit] Former employees
- Mao Zedong - staff librarian, leader of Communist Party of China
- Bertrand Russell - Lecturer in Philosophy (1920-21)
