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Beijingwalker · Jan 27, 2024

The Chinese scientists leaving top US universities to take up high-profile roles in China, boosting Beijing in its race for global talent

Over the past few years, hundreds of Chinese scientists have switched affiliations from American universities to institutions in China
The Post looks at some of the highest-profile people to make the change

Published: 11:00am, 27 Jan, 2024

China aims to attract more STEM talent to achieve its goal of technological self-reliance. Photo: Shutterstock

1. Tsinghua University’s ‘star’ twin scientists return to China from the US, Canada

The return to China of Tsinghua University’s “star” twin scientists at the end of their postdoctoral research in North America was celebrated on Chinese social media after it was announced on the alma mater’s website.

2. Acclaimed China-born physicist who taught at Stanford joins Tsinghua University

“Master researcher” Gao Huajian joins Tsinghua University for the next chapter of a glittering international career that has included top awards in his field.

3. Star mathematician leaves US for China

The 36-year-old Chinese-born geometer has joined the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics. Photo: Zhejiang University

Award-winning Chinese-born geometer Sun Song leaves California to take up a position in China.

4. MacArthur ‘genius’ biochemist Kunliang Guan leaves US for new role in China
After working in the United States for more than 30 years, biochemist Kunliang Guan is back in China with a full-time chair professor position at Westlake University in the eastern province of Zhejiang.

5. British chair professor joins China’s hypersonic programme
After more than 20 years in Britain as a prominent physicist dedicated to unveiling the secrets of superfast fluids, Zhang Yonghao joins China’s new national hypersonic laboratory in Beijing.

6. Award-winning Chinese mathematician returns to Peking University from US
Sun Xin, who specialises in probability theory and mathematical physics, was a joint winner of the prestigious Rollo Davidson Prize this year.

7. ‘Itch gene’ scientist joins Shenzhen institute after US lab shut down amid probe

Chen Zhoufeng (left) and his colleagues made a series of discoveries to advance the understanding of how itch works. Photo: Washington University School of Medicine
Chen Zhoufeng, a leading expert in the study of itch mechanisms joins an institute in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, after 33 years in the United States.

8. Scientist exiled from US brain research finds well-funded lab in China

Xiang-Dong Fu, who left California over suspicions about his foreign links, has joined Westlake University in southern China.

9. ‘Goddess scientist’ coming home to set up medical school to China’s delight

World famous structural biologist Nieng Yan – dubbed China’s “goddess scientist” – who broke many hearts when she moved to a top US university five years ago, thrills the nation by announcing she is to return home.

10. Reverse brain drain? Nasa data scientist takes job in China

Marine data expert Li Zhijin, who has also worked for the US Navy and other government agencies, is now employed at a top university in Shanghai.

11. Top scientists join new-energy research push at Shanghai university

Top Chinese-Australian scientists Dou Shixue and Liu Huakun join the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) to help find ways for China to reduce its carbon emissions, USST president says.

12. Chinese-born maths genius leaves Harvard to help China become a powerhouse on subject

World-renowned Chinese mathematician Yau Shing-Tung announces his retirement from his position at Harvard University to teach full-time at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

The Chinese scientists leaving top US universities to take up roles in China

Over the past few years, a number of high-profile Chinese scientists have left the US as part of a trend of returning scientists that are boosting China in its race for talent

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ghazi · Jan 26, 2024

Pashtun,

Pashtun, ethnolinguistic group residing primarily in the region that lies between the Hindu Kush in northeastern Afghanistan and the northern stretch of the Indus River in Pakistan. The Pashtun constitute the largest ethnic group of the population of Afghanistan and bore the exclusive name of Afghan before that name came to denote any native of the present land area of Afghanistan.

The Pashtun are united primarily by a common language, Pashto. Other commonalities include Sunni Islam and a common social code (Pashtunwali) that governs both ethical behaviour and custom. The origins of the Pashtun are debated, including among the Pashtun themselves. One Pashtun tradition asserts that they are descended from Afghana, grandson of King Saul of Israel. Several Pashtun tribes are known to have moved from Afghanistan to Pakistan between the 13th and 16th centuries, and many Pashtun moved to northern Afghanistan after the formation of the modern Afghan state in the late 19th century.

Most Pashtun are sedentary farmers, combining cultivation with animal husbandry. Some are migratory herders and caravaners. Many Pashtun serve in the military. Smaller numbers hold political posts.

Kinship is the basis of Pashtun society. Each tribe, consisting of kinsmen who trace descent in the male bloodline from a common tribal ancestor, is divided into clans, subclans, and patriarchal families. Tribal genealogies establish rights of succession and inheritance and the right to use tribal lands and to speak in tribal council (jirga). Disputes over property, women, and personal injury often result in blood feuds between families and whole clans; these may be inherited unless settled by the intervention of clan chiefs or by tribal council.

There were estimated to be about 11 million Pashtun in Afghanistan and 25 million in Pakistan in the early 21st century. They comprise about 60 tribes of varying size and importance, each of which occupies a particular territory. In Afghanistan, where the Pashtun are the predominant ethnic group, the main tribes—or, more accurately, federations of tribes—are the Durrānī south of Kabul and the Ghilzay east of Kabul.

In Pakistan the Pashtun predominate north of Quetta between the Sulaiman Range and the Indus River. In the hill areas the main tribes are, from south to north, the Kākaṛ, Shērāni, and Ustarāna south of the Gumal River; the Maḥsūd, Darwēsh Khēl, Wazīrī, and Biṭanī between the Gumal River and Thal; the Tūrī, Bangash, Ōrakzay, Afrīdī, and Shinwārī from Thal to the Khyber Pass; and the Mahmand, Utmān Khēl, Tarklānī, and Yūsufzay north and northeast of the Khyber Pass.

The settled areas include lowland tribes subject to direct administration by the provincial government. The main tribes there are, from south to north, the Banūchī and Khaṭak, from the Kurram River to Nowshera, and the Khalīl and Mandāṇ in the Vale of Peshawar. The cities of Kandahār, Jalālābād, and Lashkar Gāh in Afghanistan and Peshawar and Quetta in Pakistan are important centres of Pashtun culture.

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The Chinese scientists leaving top US universities to take up high-profile roles in China, boosting Beijing in its race for global talent

1. Tsinghua University’s ‘star’ twin scientists return to China from the US, Canada

2. Acclaimed China-born physicist who taught at Stanford joins Tsinghua University

3. Star mathematician leaves US for China

8. Scientist exiled from US brain research finds well-funded lab in China

9. ‘Goddess scientist’ coming home to set up medical school to China’s delight

10. Reverse brain drain? Nasa data scientist takes job in China

11. Top scientists join new-energy research push at Shanghai university

12. Chinese-born maths genius leaves Harvard to help China become a powerhouse on subject