A few days ago, Aprilfool questioned the value of repeated discussion of the Cultural Revolution on overseas Chinese net. She concluded that the impact can be very small. The reason might be: China today is so different from 40 or 50 years ago. For the younger generation, that was just a period of the Chinese history. At the age of Internet, everyone can have an opinion and there are just too many oppinions. There are many similar activities on the Internet. If you do this for entertainment or a sense of self-importance, by all means continue to 指点江山. But 张益唐, 饶毅 and many others have shown another way of using our time: achieve our own success in whatever profession we chose or happen to be in. You probably knew that 张益唐 was a key leader in the Chinese Students and Scholar Independent Federation of the 1989 students-led democratic movement in USA. But he soon turned his full attention to number theory research and proved the earth-shattering twin prime number theorem (Yes, I believe this beats Chen Jinren's work). 饶毅 was also a student leader who later emerged as a world class biomedical researcher. He has had a real positive impact in China by serving as Dean of Beida's School of Life Science. Just some random thoughts. added and copied later: "很多纽约的老民运人士星期六出席了庆功宴。张益唐89后加入海外最早的民运组织中国民联。胡平、冯盛平、齐光、于大海都是他的好友。如同数学界人士不会想到他是早年的民运人士一样,民运界也不会想到他们中会出一个数学大家。张益唐表示,作为一个独立知识分子,他的理念不会改变;而与会者则都鼓励他“好好做数学”。" |
炉匠: Very much agreed. I value my self-importance to be an ordinary scientist, not a world leader but a solid researcher in my field. In addition I also wr ...
老巫: 也教授这么认真,我就解释一下。当然我也是听来的。
民运和学运不是一回事,“加入”和“key leader” 差更多。张加入“民运”应该早于89-64。
90年代初,张的 ...
红豆: 鼎and 饶毅是那个没选上院士的吗
漫人: 不知道张益唐当年也是学运领袖?
秋叶: solute!
漫人: 不知道张益唐当年也是学运领袖?
SevenStar: 裸鸡没煮熟。讨论文革与你的两个例子有矛盾吗?
何况,不是每个人都能当张益唐、饶毅。那还活不活了?
漫人: 不知道张益唐当年也是学运领袖?![]()
炉匠: Very much agreed. I value my self-importance to be an ordinary scientist, not a world leader but a solid researcher in my field. In addition I also wr ...

AprilFool: 我猜是陈景润。

alsoRun: Thank you, 炉匠! Yes, we demonstrate our value and contribute to society via excellence in what we do. Seeing so many outstanding Chinese professional ...
and 饶毅是那个没选上院士的吗 
红豆: 同意也,脚踏实地做实事Who is Chen Jinren though?

炉匠: Very much agreed. I value my self-importance to be an ordinary scientist, not a world leader but a solid researcher in my field. In addition I also wr ...

Who is Chen Jinren though? 
waspking: so, it is diversity that helps more...we should all find and do what we enjoy doing.

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