links with royalty
- Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, popular historian, and journalist. He has been the Member of Parliament(MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. He had previously been the MP for Henleyfrom 2001 to 2008. He was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016, and from 2016 to 2018 he served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. A member of the Conservative Party, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative and has been associated with both economically and socially liberal policies.
- Born in New York City to wealthy upper-middle class English parents, Johnson was educated at the European School of Brussels, Ashdown House School, and Eton College. His father, Stanley Johnson, was then studying economics at Columbia University. Stanley's paternal grandfather was Circassian-Turkish journalist Ali Kemal, while his other ancestry is English, German and French. A 2008 episode of BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? found that his German great-great-great-grandmother, Karoline von Rothenburg, was the illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg by an actress. Prince Paul was himself a descendant of King George II of Great Britain and King Frederick William I of Prussia. Stanley had married Johnson's mother, Charlotte Fawcett,[10] in 1963, before they moved to the United States; she was an artist from a family of liberalintellectuals.[11] She was the granddaughter of Americans Elias Avery Lowe, a palaeographer of Russian Jewishdescent,[12] and Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, a translator. Johnson is the eldest of the four children of Stanley Johnson, a former Conservative Member of the European Parliament and employee of the European Commissionand World Bank, and the painter Charlotte Johnson Wahl(née Fawcett),[10] the daughter of Sir James Fawcett, a barrister[485] and president of the European Commission of Human Rights.[486] His younger siblings are Rachel Johnson, a writer and journalist; Leo Johnson, a partner specialising in sustainability at accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers;[487] and Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Universities and Scienceand Conservative MP for Orpington. Johnson's stepmother, Jenny, the second wife of his father Stanley, is the stepdaughter of Teddy Sieff, the former chairman of Marks & Spencer.[488] In April 2017, Rachel Johnson joined the Liberal Democrats in protest against Conservative Brexit policies; she was a member of the Conservatives between 2008 and 2011. In 1987, he married Allegra Mostyn-Owen, the daughter of the art historian William Mostyn-Owen and the Italian writer Gaia Servadio;[490] the marriage was dissolved in 1993. A couple of weeks later (and five weeks before the birth of their first child together) he married Marina Wheeler, a barrister and daughter of journalist and broadcaster Charles Wheeler and his wife, Dip Singh. The Wheeler and Johnson families have known each other for decades,[494] and Marina Wheeler was at the European School in Brussels at the same time as her future husband. They have four children: two daughters, Lara and Cassia, and two sons, Milo and Theodore.[495] Johnson and his family have a home in Islington, North London.[citation needed] In 2009, Johnson fathered a daughter with Helen MacIntyre, an arts consultant. The child's existence was the subject of legal action in 2013 with the Court of Appeal quashing an injunction seeking to ban reporting of her existence; the judge ruled that the public had a right to know about Johnson's "reckless" behaviour.
Stanley Patrick Johnson (born 18 August 1940) is a British author[2] and former Conservative Party politician. He is also the father of the current British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He has written books on environmental and population issues. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wight and Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984 and is a former employee of the World Bank and the European Commission. His six children include Boris Johnson, who is the Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and former Mayor of London; Jo Johnson, former MP for Orpington and Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation; and Rachel Johnson, an editor, journalist, television presenter and author. Stanley Johnson was born in 1940 in Penzance, Cornwall, the son of Osman Kemal (later Wilfred Johnson) and Irene Williams (daughter of Stanley Fred Williams of Bromley, Kent, and Marie Louise de Pfeffel).[3][4] His paternal grandfather, Ali Kemal Bey, one of the last interior ministers of the Ottoman Empire government, was assassinated in 1922 during the Turkish War of Independence. Stanley's father was born in 1909 in Bournemouth, and his birth was registered as Osman Ali Wilfred Kamal.[5] Osman's Anglo-Swiss mother Winifred Brun died shortly after giving birth.[6] Ali Kamal returned to Turkey in 1912, whereafter Osman Wilfred and his sister Selma were brought up by their English grandmother, Margaret Brun, and took her maiden name, Johnson, Stanley's father therefore becoming simply Wilfred Johnson.
- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/04/stanley-johnson-says-greece-visit-is-essential-to-covid-proof-villa Johnson senior flew to Athens via Sofia, Bulgaria, seemingly to circumvent Greek government rules against direct flights from the UK to the country, which has been praised for its handling of the pandemic – with deaths in the low three figures.
- https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3022223/boris-johnsons-brother-hong-kong-backs-his-brexit-strategy Max Johnson, 34, says the fund to be launched in partnership with a hotel operator, will target high net worth individuals and pension funds
diplomat
- Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes (French pronunciation: [vɛʁ.ʒɛn]; 29 December 1719 – 13 February 1787) was a French statesman and diplomat. He served as Foreign Minister from 1774 during the reign of Louis XVI, notably during the American War of Independence.Vergennes rose through the ranks of the diplomatic service during postings in Portugal and Germany before receiving the important post of Envoy to the Ottoman Empire in 1755. While there he oversaw complex negotiations that resulted from the Diplomatic Revolution before being recalled in 1768. After assisting a pro-French faction to take power in Sweden, he returned home and was promoted to foreign minister. Vergennes hoped that by giving French aid to the American rebels, he would be able to weaken Britain's dominance of the international stage in the wake of their victory in the Seven Years' War. This produced mixed results as in spite of securing American independence France was able to extract little material gain from the war, while the costs of fighting damaged French national finances in the run up to the Revolution. He went on to be a dominant figure in French politics during the 1780s.Charles Gravier was born in Dijon, France on December 29, 1719. His family were members of the country aristocracy.[1] He spent his youth in a townhouse at Dijon and on the family's country estates. He had an elder brother Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes, born in 1718, who eventually inherited the family estates. His mother died when he was three, and his father subsequently remarried. Vergennes received his education from Jesuits in Dijon.[2] In 1739, at the age of twenty, he accepted an offer to go to Lisbon as an assistant to Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny who was mutually referred to as his "uncle", but was in fact a more distant relative. Chavigny was an experienced diplomat and secret agent who had been made ambassador to Portugal.
- Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (5 October 1728 – 21 May 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, Freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War. D'Éon had androgynousphysical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic and a spy. D'Éon appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations for 49 years, although during that time d'Éon successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman. For 33 years, from 1777, d'Éon lived as a woman.[citation needed] Doctors who examined d'Éon's body after death discovered "male organs in every respect perfectly formed", but also feminine characteristics. D'Éon was born at the Hôteld'Uzès in Tonnerre, Burgundy, into a poor noble family. D'Éon's father, Louis d'Éon de Beaumont, was an attorney and director of the king's dominions, later mayor of Tonnerre and sub-delegate of the intendant of the généralité of Paris.
- Le Chevalier d'Eon, a series of manga written by Tow Ubukata and illustrated by Kiriko Yumeji; it is published by Del Rey Manga
- image of him dressing as half man and half woman
usa
- Robert Charles O'Brien (born 1965 or 1966)[2] is an American lawyer who is the current United States National Security Advisor and the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs. He is also a partner at Larson O'Brien LLP, a Los Angeles-based boutique law firm. O'Brien was born in Los Angeles, and attended Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa, California. He received a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988, and a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1991.[5][4] He studied at the University of the Free State in South Africa in 1987.[5] He was admitted to the California bar in 1991.O'Brien was the California managing partner of Arent Fox LLP, a national law firm, for seven years. During that time he grew the California offices from 10 attorneys to more than 110.[6][7] He represented Buzz Aldrin in a number of high-profile cases, and also represented the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste in proceedings initiated by ConocoPhillips.O'Brien was nominated[10] by President George W. Bush as the U.S. Alternate Representative to the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly during 2005–06. He addressed the General Assembly on the question of Palestine, and represented the United States in the General Assembly's Sixth Committee, which considered the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. O'Brien served as Co-Chairman of the U.S. Department of State's Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan, launched in December 2007, which "promoted the rule of law" in Afghanistan by training judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. He continued this role during the first term of the Obama administration.Raised a Catholic, O'Brien converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in his twenties. Upon being named President Trump's National Security Advisor, he became the highest-ranking Latter-day Saint in the US government.
- 美國新任國家安全顧問奧布賴恩周日在空軍一號上宣布，將調升對華鷹派的白宮國安會東亞政策主任博明作副國安顧問，稱讚對方是「團隊協作者」。操流利普通話的博明在美國麻省大學取得中國研究學位，曾先後在英美傳媒擔任駐北京記者，亦曾在香港工作；在白宮任職期間協助制訂中國和北韓相關政策。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190924/00180_024.html
british empire
- George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney KB (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806) was a British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat. He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's success in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled "a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets".He was an Irishman descended from an old Scottish family, the Macartneys of Auchenleck, Kirkcudbrightshire who had settled in 1649 at Lissanoure, in Loughguile, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, where he was born.
Eurasians
- micah sandt (french and finland origin, born in taiwan) hkej 22aug18 c4
- The Morris family name came from their paternal grandfather, Alfred Morris, who was half Welsh, although he died during World War II and they never met him. Their maternal grandparents, however, played an important role. 'We spoke Cantonese to our maternal grandmother and English to our maternal grandfather, who was half Indian and a combination of German and other nationalities,' Trevor says.https://www.scmp.com/article/404812/auntie-answers
central asians
- 冼星海（1905.6.13－1945.10.30），男，曾用名黄训、孔宇，祖籍广东番禺（现属广州市南沙区榄核镇），出生于澳门，中国近代著名作曲家、钢琴家，有“人民音乐家”之称。1926年入北京大学音乐传习所，1928年进上海国立音专学习音乐。1929年去巴黎勤工俭学，师从著名提琴家帕尼·奥别多菲尔和著名作曲家保罗·杜卡斯。1935年回国后，积极参加抗日救亡运动。1938年赴延安，后担任鲁迅艺术学院音乐系主任。1939年6月，加入中国共产党 [1] 。1945年10月因劳累和营养不良，他的肺病日益严重，最后冼星海病逝于莫斯科。1905年6月13日，冼星海生于澳门一个贫苦家庭。冼星海6岁时随母亲黄苏英去新加坡，进入了新加坡的养正学校。养正学校的区健夫老师，最先赏识冼星海的音乐秉赋，并选他进入学校军乐队，让他开始接触乐器和音乐训练。为了让孩子接受更好的教育，1918年，母亲想方设法来到广州，把13岁的冼星海送进了岭南大学（现中山大学）学习小提琴，开始正规的音乐课程。进入岭南大学后，为了贴补家用，冼星海依靠每天售卖两个钟头的书、纸、笔等物，和加入岭南银行乐队这两件工作，来维持学费和伙食费。他在乐队里担任演奏直箫，后来成了附中管弦乐队的指挥，因为他吹奏单簧管很有韵味，由此得到“南国箫手”的雅号，连培正中学也请他去做音乐教员和乐队指挥。Xian Xinghai or Sinn Sing Hoi[1] (13 June 1905 – 30 October 1945) (Chinese: 冼星海; pinyin: Xiǎn Xīnghăi; Wade–Giles: Hsien Hsing-hai) was one of the earliest generation of Chinese composers influenced by western classical music and has influenced generations of Chinese musicians.[2] Although he composed in all the major musical forms (two symphonies, a violin concerto, four large scale choral works, nearly 300 songs and an opera), he is best known for his Yellow River Cantata upon which the Yellow River Concerto for piano and orchestra is based.
- 阿拉木圖竟然有一條 「冼星海大街」， 街道盡頭還矗立着冼星海紀念碑。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180921/PDF/b14_screen.pdf
eurasians/central asians that are "chinese"
- Xi Xi/Hsi Hsi (西西, born October 7 1938 in Shanghai) is the pseudonym of the Chinese author[1] and poet Zhang Yan (張彥). She was born in China and came to Hong Kong at the age of twelve. She was a teacher and now a Hong Kong-based writer. Her works are popular in Taiwan and mainland China. She has become rather well known to secondary school age Hong Kong people these years likewise, though, not owing to her other specific masterpieces but, very likely, "Shops", one of her essays which is adopted as reading materials for the Chinese Language paper of Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination by the Hong Kong Examination Authority. The screenplay for the 2006 film, 2 Become 1 was based on her novel, "Mourn Over the Breasts"(哀悼乳房). The film starred Hong Kong Cantopop singer Miriam Yeung, as a woman living with breast cancer. In 2019, Xi Xi was the recipient of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.Xi Xi's native county is Zhongshan, Guangdong. She was born in Shanghai, where she attended primary school, in 1938. In 1950, she immigrated to Hong Kong with her parents. Her father worked at Kowloon Motor Bus as a ticket checker. In addition, he had been a Division A soccer team trainer and, later, a referee since he was in Shanghai, thus Xi Xi had developed an immense interest in soccer when she was young. Xi Xi has two brothers and two sisters.Later, Xi Xi attended secondary school at Heep Yunn School, where lessons were taught in Cantonese; she started her English-instructed lessons from Form 4.
- Xi Xi a été cinéaste durant les années 1960, et a aussi été critique de films et a écrit des scénarios. Nombre de ses œuvres littéraires utilisent des procédés évoquant les arts visuels (peinture ou cinéma). Prodiges d'une ville flottante par exemple s'inspire des tableaux de Magritte, tout en étant un portrait de Hong Kong2. À l'instar du tableau de Magritte Le château des Pyrénées, la Hong Kong des années précédant la rétrocession à la République populaire de Chine est perçue comme une ville flottant entre ciel et terre3.
- ***** 1996年，長篇小說《飛氈》出版，由《我城》（1979），到之後寫有關「肥土鎮」的一系列小說，到《飛氈》總結了一個城市近百年的歷史，完整地呈現西西「城鎮小說」的面貌。
- publication of english translation by diana yue is supported by a grant from the louis cha fund for chinese studies - translated terms to note - small island called fertilia and immediately north of it lies a big country called dragonland
"chinese"
- 話說易文原名楊彥岐，又名諸 葛郎、司馬青杉，為本港著名導 演及填詞家，在 1920年 11月 26 日生於北京，1978年 3月 29日逝 世；其父楊千里為晚清優貢生， 其兄弟姐妹計有建築師楊錫鏐， 動畫製作人楊左匋，企業家楊錫 仁及費孝通之母楊紉蘭；他 1925 年隨父母遷居江蘇吳縣，1936年 他年僅 16歲，編寫首個劇本《時 代中》，未獲採用，1937年盧溝 橋事變他與全家在上海定居，就 讀於聖約翰大學文學系，於 1941 年畢業，從 1948年起，他為香港 影片公司編寫劇本，1951年他以 易文為筆名。從 1940 到 1976 年，他參與近 88 部電影製作，《曼波女郎》 （1957 年 ） 、 《 情 深 似 海 》 （1960 年 ） 和 《 月 夜 琴 挑 》 （1968年）等俱為其代表作；他 出版近十三本小說集，當中短篇 小說創作以簡明的筆法書寫複雜 的都市男女情感，從上海到香 港，從文學到電影，他以獨特都 市文化經驗，為本港文化作重大 貢獻。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/12/14/b07-1214.pdf
- 話說易文原名楊彥岐，又名諸 葛郎、司馬青杉，為本港著名導 演及填詞家，在 1920年 11月 26 日生於北京，1978年 3月 29日逝 世；其父楊千里為晚清優貢生， 其兄弟姐妹計有建築師楊錫鏐， 動畫製作人楊左匋，企業家楊錫 仁及費孝通之母楊紉蘭；他 1925 年隨父母遷居江蘇吳縣，1936年 他年僅 16歲，編寫首個劇本《時 代中》，未獲採用，1937年盧溝 橋事變他與全家在上海定居，就 讀於聖約翰大學文學系，於 1941 年畢業，從 1948年起，他為香港 影片公司編寫劇本，1951年他以 易文為筆名。從 1940 到 1976 年，他參與近 88 部電影製作，《曼波女郎》 （1957 年 ） 、 《 情 深 似 海 》 （1960 年 ） 和 《 月 夜 琴 挑 》 （1968年）等俱為其代表作；他 出版近十三本小說集，當中短篇 小說創作以簡明的筆法書寫複雜 的都市男女情感，從上海到香 港，從文學到電影，他以獨特都 市文化經驗，為本港文化作重大 貢獻。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/12/14/b07-1214.pdf
- 陶傑
- 父親曹驥雲與我1962年底在青山容龍別墅。我記得身上穿的那件毛衣，不記得那一天。他原籍桂林，南京出生，他出生後母親亡故，有一姊一兄，相繼於逃難時病歿。一九五〇年，他手持一隻皮箱由南京上海輾轉渡過羅湖橋來香港，投奔他的姨媽王李象珮女士。而他的姨丈是當年香港紗廠寧波老闆王啟宇，亦即王統元、王福元兄弟之父。https://www.facebook.com/tokit.channel/photos/a.533448593394335/3497703100302188/
persians
- Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, KBE, CC (Arabic: شاه كريم الحسيني، الآقاخان الرابع; Persian: شاه کریم حسینی، آقاخان چهارم; Urdu: شاه کریم حسینی، آقاخان چهارم; Aga Khan is also transliterated as Aqa Khan and Agha Khan;[2] born 13 December 1936) is the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism, a denomination of Isma'ilism within Shia Islamwith an estimated 10–15 million adherents (10–12% of the world's Shia Muslim population).[3][4][5][6] The Aga Khan is a business magnate with British citizenship,[7][3][8][9][10]as well as a racehorse owner and breeder.[8][11] He has held this position of Imam, under the title of Aga Khan IV, since 11 July 1957,[12] when, at the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III. It is believed that the Aga Khan is a direct lineal descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, Ali,[13] considered the first Imam in Shia Islam, and Ali's wife Fatima az-Zahra, Muhammad's daughter from his first marriage. Forbes describes the Aga Khan as one of the world's ten richest royals with an estimated net worth of US$3 billion. Additionally he is unique among the richest royals as he does not rule over a geographic territory.[14] Among the goals the Aga Khan has said he works toward are the elimination of global poverty; the promotion and implementation of religious pluralism;[15] the advancement of the status of women; and the honouring of Islamic art and architecture.[16][17][18][19][20] He is the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, one of the largest private development networks in the world. The organisation works toward improvement of the environment, health, education, architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalisation of historic cities. Since his ascension to the Imamate of Nizari Ismailis in 1957, the Aga Khan has been involved in complex political and economic changes which have affected his Nizari Ismaili followers, including the independence of African countries from colonial rule, expulsion of Asians from Uganda, the independence of Central Asian countries such as Tajikistan from the former Soviet Union and the continuous turmoil in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Aga Khan IV became the first faith leader to address the Joint Session of the Canadian Parliament on 27 February 2014.
- hkej 14jun19 shum article
Irish
- Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (7 February 1875 – 19 January 1968), who always signed his name A. Chester Beatty, was an American mining magnate, philanthropist and one of the most successful businessmen of his generation, who was given the epithet the "King of Copper" as a reference to his fortune. He became a naturalised British citizen in 1933, knighted in 1954 and made an honorary citizen of Ireland in 1957. He was a collector of African, Asian, European and Middle Eastern manuscripts, rare printed books, prints and objects d'art. Upon his move to Dublin in 1950 he established the Chester Beatty Library on Shrewsbury Road to house his collection; it opened to the public in 1954. The Collections were bequeathed to the Irish people and entrusted to the care of the State in his Irish will. He donated a number of papyrus documents to the British Museum, his second wife's (Edith Dunn Beatty) collection of Marie Antoinette's personal furniture to the Louvre and a number of his personal paintings that once hung in the Picture Gallery of his London home to the National Gallery of Ireland. He also founded the Chester Beatty Institute in London which was later renamed the Institute of Cancer Research.
- In 1914, Beatty founded the London-based mining company, Selection Trust. The First World War delayed the expansion but during the 1920s the business became an extraordinary successful group of companies with interests in many countries, including Russia, The Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) and Sierra Leone. It was in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo) that Chester Beatty's fortune was made when he dared to exploit the copper belt.[6] For this, he became known as the 'King of Copper'.
- Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBE (/ˈtrævərs/; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of children's books, which feature the magical nanny Mary Poppins.Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Her writing was first published as a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Upon emigrating to England at the age of 25, she began to write under the pen nameP. L. Travers. In 1933, she began writing the novel Mary Poppins, the first of eight Poppins books. Travers travelled to New York City during World War II while working for the British Ministry of Information. At that time, Walt Disney contacted her about selling to Disney Studios the rights for a film adaptation of Mary Poppins, whose sequel Mary Poppins Comes Back was also in print. After years of contact, which included visits to Travers at her home in London, Walt Disney did obtain the rights and the Disney film Mary Poppinspremiered in 1964.Helen Lyndon Goff, known within her family as Lyndon, was born on 9 August 1899 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. Her mother, Margaret Agnes Goff (née Morehead), was Australian and the sister of Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Premier of Queensland from 1888 to 1890. Her father, Travers Robert Goff, was of Irish descent and born in Deptford, south-east London, England. He was unsuccessful as a bank manager due to his chronic alcoholism, and was eventually demoted to the position of bank clerk. The family lived in a large home with servants in Maryborough until Lyndon was five years old, when they relocated to Allora in 1905. Two years later, Travers Goff died at home at the age of 43. Following her father's death, Goff, along with her mother and sisters, moved to Bowral, New South Wales, in 1907, living there until 1917. She boarded at Loreto Girls School in Normanhurst, a suburb of Sydney, during World War I.
- - Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (/ˌrɒbɪˈnɛt
- Biden was born on November 20, 1942, at St. Mary's Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania,[8] to Catherine Eugenia Biden (née Finnegan)[9] and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr.[10] He was the first of four siblings in a Catholicfamily, with a sister and two brothers.[11] His mother was of Irish descent, with roots variously attributed to County Louth[12] or County Londonderry.[13][14] His paternal grandparents, Mary Elizabeth (Robinette) and Joseph H. Biden, an oil businessman from Baltimore, Maryland, were of English, French, and Irish ancestry.[14][15] His paternal third great-grandfather, William Biden, was born in Sussex, England, and immigrated to the United States. His maternal great-grandfather, Edward Francis Blewitt,[16] was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.He earned his bachelor's in 1965 from the University of Delaware, with a double major in history and political science,[26] graduating with a class rank of 506 out of 688.[27] His classmates were impressed by his crammingabilities,[23] and he played halfback with the Blue Hens freshman football team.[22] In 1964, while on spring break in the Bahamas,[28] he met and began dating Neilia Hunter, who was from an affluent background in Skaneateles, New York, and attended Syracuse University.[18][29] He told her that he aimed to become a senator by the age of 30 and then president.[30] He dropped a junior year plan to play for the varsity football team as a defensive back, enabling him to spend more time visiting out of state with her. On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after the election, Biden's wife and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware.[26] Neilia Biden's station wagon was hit by a tractor-trailer truck as she pulled out from an intersection. Biden's sons Beau and Hunter survived the accident and were taken to the hospital in fair condition, Beau with a broken leg and other wounds, and Hunter with a minor skull fracture and other head injuries.[50] Doctors soon said both would make full recoveries.
- Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970)[3] is an American lawyer and the second son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Biden. He is a partner at Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC, and is Counsel to Boies, Schiller, Flexner, LLP, a New York-based law firm. On April 18, 2014, Burisma Holdings announced Biden's appointment to its board of directors in a press release.[17] Burisma is the largest non-governmental gas producer in Ukraine; it was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Limassol, Cyprus – a European tax haven.[18][19] Burisma holds licenses covering the Dnieper-Donets Basin, the Carpathian and Azov-Kuban basins and has considerable reserves and production capability.[20] Burisma was founded by Mykola Zlochevsky, the former energy minister and deputy national security council chair under Viktor Yanukovych, in 2006.[21] Burisma Holdings is owned and controlled by the Ukrainian businessman Mykola Zlochevsky.[22][23] Joining Hunter Biden on the Burisma Board of Directors was Aleksander Kwaśniewski.[24] Kwaśniewski was President of the Republic of Poland from 1995 to 2005 during the George W. Bush administration.[25] Hunter Biden stepped down from the board when his term expired in April 2019. Hunter Biden's father, Vice-President Joe Biden, traveled to Kiev on April 22, 2014, and urged the Ukraine government "... to reduce its dependence on Russia for supplies of natural gas."[27] And he discussed how the United States could help provide technical expertise for expanding domestic production of natural gas.[28] A major theme of this diplomatic mission was to reduce corruption by reducing Russian influence.Peter Schweizer, author of Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, wrote: "In December 2013 Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, travels with his father aboard Air Force Two to Beijing. ... Shortly after they return to the U.S., Hunter Biden's firm receives a $1 billion private equity deal from the Chinese government. The deal was later increased to $1.5 billion."[46][47]Biden is on the board of Bohai Harvest RST (also known as BHR Partners) which, according to reporting in The Intercept, invested in Face++, a mobile phone app built by the Chinese government to introduce a mass surveillance state and spy on its citizens. The application has been used to spy on Muslims in China's western province of Xinjiang, where an estimated 1 million Muslims are being held in “re-education” camps, providing government authorities access to data that shows personal information.The website said the company has the support of the state-owned Bank of China. Bohai Harvest has also partnered with a subsidiary of China's conglomerate HNA Group. According to Peter Schweizer, Bohai Harvest "became an “anchor investor” in the IPO of China General Nuclear Power Corp., a state-owned energy company involved in the construction of nuclear reactors. In 2016, the US Justice Department would charge CGN with stealing nuclear secrets from the United States". Bohai Harvest also "joined forces with a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned military aviation contractor Aviation Industry Corporation of China to buy American precision-parts manufacturer Henniges."Hunter Biden partnered with James Bulger, son of former Massachusetts state Senate President William Bulger. According to The Intercept, business registration filings in China list Hunter Biden and James Bulger as key officials at Bohai Harvest.
- 美媒上周五報道，特朗普今年七月與烏克蘭總統澤連斯基通電話時，八次要求對方調查前副總統拜登兒子亨特的不當行為，被質疑借助外國勢力介入大選。力爭民主黨提名資格的拜登，斥責特朗普無底線地濫權。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190922/00180_005.html
scots
- Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was a political scientist and historian, best known for his 1983 book Imagined Communities, which explored the origins of nationalism. Anderson was the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University. A polyglot with an interest in Southeast Asia, his work on the Cornell Paper that debunked the official story of Indonesia's 30 September Movement and the subsequent anti-Communist purges of 1965–66 led to his expulsion from that country. He was the brother of historian Perry Anderson (b. 1938).Anderson was born on August 26, 1936, in Kunming, China, to an Anglo-Irish father and English mother.[2][3] His father, James Carew O'Gorman Anderson, was an official with Chinese Maritime Customs.[1][2] The family descended from the Anderson family of Ardbrake, Bothriphnie, Scotland, who settled in Ireland in the early 1700s. A maternal grandfather Trevor Bigham was the Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1914–1931. One of Benedict's grandmothers, Lady Frances O'Gorman, belonged to the Gaelic Mac Gormáin clan of County Clare and was the daughter of the Irish Home Rule MP Major Purcell O'Gorman.[7][8][9] Major Purcell O'Gorman was in turn the son of Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman who had been involved with the Republican Society of United Irishmen during the 1798 Rising, later becoming Secretary of the Catholic Association in the 1820s.[10][11][12] Benedict Anderson took his middle names from the cousin of Major Purcell O'Gorman, Richard O'Gorman, who was one of the leaders of the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848.
norwegians
- Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United Statesfrom 1977 to 1981, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota (1964–76). He was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in the United States presidential election of 1984, but lost to Ronald Reagan in a landslide. Reagan won 49 states while Mondale carried his home state of Minnesota and Washington, D.C. Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1951 after attending Macalester College. He then served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War before earning a law degree in 1956. Walter Frederick Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, the son of Claribel Hope (née Cowan), a part-time music teacher, and Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodistminister. Walter's half-brother Lester Mondale became a Unitarian minister.[6] Mondale also has two brothers, Clarence, known as Pete (1926–2014) and William, known as Mort. His paternal grandparents were Norwegian immigrants,[7] and his mother, the daughter of an immigrant from Ontario, was of Scottish and English descent.[8] The surname "Mondale" comes from Mundal, a valley and town in the Fjærland region of Norway.On December 5, 2007, Norwegian minister of foreign affairs Jonas Gahr Støre announced that Walter Mondale would be named Honorary Consul-General of Norway, representing the Norwegian state in Minnesota.
francophone
- Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a Francophone and French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritudemovement in Francophone literature". He wrote such works as Une Tempête, a response to Shakespeare's play The Tempest, and Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism), an essay describing the strife between the colonizers and the colonized. His works have been translated into many languages.Césaire was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, in 1913. He considered himself of Igbo descent from Nigeria, and considered his first name Aimé a retention of an Igbo name.
- takungpao 15-16 sep18
- Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (/hɜːrn/; Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲), was a writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in that city.Hearn was born in and named after the island of Lefkada, one of the Greek Ionian Islands, on 27 June 1850.[1]:p. 3 He was the son of Surgeon-Major Charles Bush Hearn (of County Offaly, Ireland) and Rosa Antoniou Kassimatis, a Greek woman of noble Kytheran lineage through her father, Anthony Kassimatis.[citation needed] His father was stationed in Lefkada during the British occupation of the islands, where he was the highest-ranking surgeon in his regiment. Lafcadio was baptized Patricios Lefcadios Hearn (Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν) in the Greek Orthodox Church, but he seems to have been called "Patrick Lefcadio Kassimati Charles Hearn" in English.A complex series of conflicts and events led to Lafcadio Hearn being moved from Greece to Ireland, where he was abandoned first by his mother (leaving him in the care of her husband's aunt), then his father, and finally by his father's aunt, who had been appointed his official guardian. In 1850 Hearn's father was promoted to Staff Surgeon Second Class and was reassigned from Lefkada to the British West Indies. Since his family did not approve of the marriage, and worried that his relationship might harm his career prospects, Charles Hearn did not inform his superiors of his son or pregnant wife and left his family behind. In 1852, he arranged to send his son and wife to live with his family in Dublin, Ireland, where they received a cool reception. Charles Hearn's Protestant mother, Elizabeth Holmes Hearn, had difficulty accepting Rosa Hearn's Catholicism and lack of education (she was illiterate and spoke no English). Rosa found it difficult to adapt to a foreign culture and the Protestantism of her husband's family, and was eventually taken under the wing of Elizabeth's sister, Sarah Holmes Brenane, a widow who had converted to Catholicism.By 1869, Henry Molyneux had recovered some financial stability and Brenane, now 75, was infirm. Resolving to end his expenditures on the 19-year-old Hearn, he purchased a one-way ticket to New York and instructed Hearn to find his way to Cincinnati, to locate Molyneux's sister and her husband, Thomas Cullinan, and to obtain their assistance in making a living. Upon meeting Hearn in Cincinnati, the family had little assistance to offer: Cullinan gave him $5 and wished him luck in seeking his fortune. As Hearn would later write, "I was dropped moneyless on the pavement of an American city to begin life."[5]:p. 818For a time, he was impoverished, living in stables or store rooms in exchange for menial labor.[6] He eventually befriended the English printer and communalist Henry Watkin, who employed him in his printing business, helped find him various odd jobs, lent him books from his library, including utopianists Fourier, Dixon and Noyes, and gave Hearn a nickname which stuck with him for the rest of his life, The Raven, from the Poe poem. Hearn also frequented the Cincinnati Public Library. On 14 June 1874, Hearn, aged 23, married Alethea ("Mattie") Foley, a 20-year-old African American woman, an action in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law at that time. In August 1875, in response to complaints from local clergyman about his anti-religious views and pressure from local politicians embarrassed by some of his satirical writing in Ye Giglampz, the Enquirer fired him, citing as its reason his illegal marriage. He went to work for the rival newspaper The Cincinnati Commercial. The Enquirer offered to re-hire him after his stories began appearing in the Commercial and its circulation began increasing, but Hearn, incensed at the paper's behavior, refused. Hearn and Foley separated, but attempted reconciliation several times before divorcing in 1877.In 1890, Hearn went to Japan with a commission as a newspaper correspondent, which was quickly terminated. It was in Japan, however, that he found a home and his greatest inspiration. Through the goodwill of Basil Hall Chamberlain, Hearn gained a teaching position during the summer of 1890 at the Shimane Prefectural Common Middle School and Normal School in Matsue, a town in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum and his old residence are still two of Matsue's most popular tourist attractions. During his fifteen-month stay in Matsue, Hearn married Koizumi Setsu, the daughter of a local samurai family, with whom he had four children.[17] He became a naturalized Japanese, assuming the name Koizumi Yakumo, in 1896 after accepting a teaching position in Tokyo. After having been Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and, later on, Spencerian, he became Buddhist.During late 1891, Hearn obtained another teaching position in Kumamoto, Kyūshū, at the Fifth Higher Middle School, where he spent the next three years and completed his book Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894). In October 1894, he secured a journalism job with the English-language newspaper Kobe Chronicle, and in 1896, with some assistance from Chamberlain, he began teaching English literatureat Tokyo Imperial University, a job he had until 1903. In 1904, he was a professor at Waseda University.
- [3rd serving of chicken soup for the soul - the horai box story] In one of his stories he tells about horai, a place where there is no winter and flowers never fade - and by reason of being young at heart, the people always smile
links with macedonia
- Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe (or Gonxha)[9] Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]; Anjezë is a cognate of "Agnes"; Gonxhe means "rosebud" or "little flower" in Albanian) on 26 August 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family in Skopje (now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia), Ottoman Empire.
- visited hk in 1985 set up 仁爱之家in mongkok and shamshuipo
montenegrin
- Thaksin Shinawatra (Thai: ทักษิณ ชินวัตร, RTGS: Thaksin Chinnawat, pronounced [tʰák.sǐn t͡ɕʰīn.nā.wát]; born 26 July 1949) is a Thai and Montenegrin businessman, politician and visiting professor. He was the Prime Minister of Thailand from 2001 to 2006 and Thai Police from 1973 to 1987.He was overthrown in a military coup on 19 September 2006. His party was outlawed and he was barred from political activity. Thaksin has since lived in self-imposed exile except for a brief visit to Thailand in 2008. He was sentenced in absentia to two years in jail for abuse of power. From abroad he has continued to influence Thai politics, through the People's Power Party that ruled in 2008, and its successor organisation Pheu Thai Party, as well as the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship or "red shirt" movement. His younger sister Yingluck Shinawatra was the prime minister of Thailand from 2011 to 2014.Thaksin's great-grandfather, Seng Saekhu, was an immigrant from Meizhou, Guangdong, China, who arrived in Siam in the 1860s and settled in Chiang Mai in 1908. His eldest son, Chiang Saekhu, was born in Chanthaburi in 1890 and married a Thai woman named Saeng Samana. Chiang's eldest son, Sak, adopted the Thai surname Shinawatra ("routinely appropriate action") in 1938 because of the country's anti-Chinese movement, and the rest of the family also adopted it. Seng Saekhu had made his fortune through tax farming. Chiang Saekhu/Shinawatra later founded Shinawatra Silks and then moved into finance, construction, and property development. Thaksin's father, Loet, was born in Chiang Mai in 1919 and married Yindi Ramingwong. Yindi's father, Charoen Ramingwong (born: Wang Chuan Cheng), was a Hakka immigrant[7][8] who married Princess Chanthip na Chiangmai, a minor member of the Lanna (Chiang Mai) royalty. In 1968, Loet Shinawatra entered politics and became an MP for Chiang Mai and deputy leader of the now-defunct Liberal Party. Loet Shinawatra quit politics in 1976. He opened a coffee shop, grew oranges and flowers in Chiang Mai's San Kamphaeng district, and opened two cinemas, a gas station, and a car and motorcycle dealership. By the time Thaksin was born, the Shinawatra family was one of the richest and most influential families in Chiang Mai. Thaksin was born in San Kamphaeng, Chiang Mai province. He lived in the village of San Kamphaeng until he was 15, then moved to Chiang Mai city to study at Montfort College. At 16, he helped run one of his father's cinemas. Thaksin married Potjaman Damapong in July 1976.[10] They have one son, Panthongtae and two daughters, Pintongtha and Peathongtarn. They divorced in 2008.[11] Thaksin's youngest sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is said to have entered politics in 2011 at her brother's request as leader of the pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai Party and was elected prime minister on 3 July 2011.[12] Thaksin earned a doctorate in criminology at Sam Houston State University.
- Brother and sister Thaksin and Yingluck are fourth-generation Chinese immigrants in Thailand and descended from a family of Hakkas. Their great-grandfather Seng Saekhu, like many others from the Guangdong cities of Meizhou and Chaozhou, left China in the late 19th century for what was then Siam, where he grew wealthy from trading and taxation businesses.Inside an ordinary ancestral shrine in a village in southern China, where locals pay respects to their forebears, hang photographs of two unusual figures: former Thailand prime ministers Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra.“Everyone here knows about their ties to this place, for sure,” said Xie Yimin, a home supplies shop owner in Taxia village in Guangdong province, four hours’ drive from Guangzhou.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2182617/shinawatras-out-lee-kuan-yew-asian-leaders-differing-treatment
- 泰國流亡前總理他信的兒子潘通泰，被指在泰京銀行的貸款醜聞中涉及洗錢。泰國特別案件調查廳（DSI）周三把調查文件及相關人物移交檢方，並建議起訴。潘通泰暫時獲釋，檢方將於九月五日通知他是否會被控。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180728/00180_016.html
- Thailand’s former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is a Cambodian passport holder, the South China Morning Post has learned, adding weight to the theory she fled her country in 2017 via Cambodia, despite strenuous denials by Phnom Penh. Corporate filings in Hong Kong revealed Yingluck, 51, had used a Cambodian passport to register as the sole director of P.T. Corporation Company, a firm incorporated in the city on August 24 last year, almost a year to the day after she went into self-imposed exile ahead of a sentence for criminal negligence.The filings also contradict the claims by the Cambodian government that it had not issued any travel papers to her when she left her country under mysterious circumstances, while allegedly being under the 24-hour surveillance of the military government. Yingluck had been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for mishandling rice subsidies, charges she rejected as political persecution. The Hong Kong company’s incorporation is among a set of the first publicly available documents revealing her business dealings after avoiding the limelight since fleeing Thailand. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2181359/former-thailand-prime-minister-yingluck-shinawatra-does-have
- 根據香港公司註冊處的資料，英祿於去年八月二十日在香港成立P.T.Corporation Company Limited的有限公司，該公司的股東為一間在泰國註冊的同名公司。P.T.Corporation在香港的登記地址是尖沙咀K11寫字樓，但上址是新加坡籍富商、汕頭集裝箱碼頭董事陳懷丹旗下的Pacific International Capital辦公室。英祿在文件登記的住址是山頂豪宅倚巒，該物業由陳懷丹及丈夫唐逸剛擁有，兩人於二○一二年以二億五千萬港元購入。陳懷丹是新加坡上市公司新海逸集團的大股東，公司主席是美國已故總統老布殊的兒子尼爾布殊。至於曾參加二○一六年共和黨總統初選的杰布布殊，曾獲陳懷丹與丈夫捐出一百三十萬美元（約一千萬港元）。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190111/00180_007.html
- 流亡海外的泰國前總理他信與 妹妹英祿，近日因喜事現身香 港，他信幼女據報將於下周五， 與任職機師的男友在香港「拉埋 天窗」，婚禮地點位於尖沙咀梳 士巴利道、即將開幕的香港瑰麗 酒店，雖然泰國 5年來首次大選 於下周日舉行，但預料仍有不少 泰國政界人士將來港出席婚禮。 他信幼女貝東丹是泰國一間地 產公司的股東，與任職機師的未 婚夫彼多相識兩年多，早前已在 社交媒體公佈喜訊http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/03/15/a20-0315.pdf
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3002904/thailands-princess-ubolratana-attends-wedding-thaksin, also appledaily 23mar19
- The Serbian government decided to grant Yingluck citizenship on Jun 27, citing a legal provision that "a foreign citizen can also be granted Serbian citizenship if that is in line with the country's interests". Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/yingluck-shinawatra-serbia-citizenship-thailand-fugitive-11793734
from nigeria
- Chuka Harrison Umunna (/ˈtʃʊkə
ugandan
- Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa is an international lawyer and expert in African commercial affairs, who served as the executive director of Financial Sector Deepening Uganda, a Ugandan non-profit that aims to facilitate the availability of affordable financial services to a wider and more inclusive segment of Uganda's population.[1][2] She was appointed to that position in June 2017.[3] She left FSD Uganda in February 2019.Musiitwa received her first degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Studies, from Davidson College, in Davidson, North Carolina, United States, graduating in 2003. She transferred to the University of Melbourne, in Melbourne, Australia, graduating from there with a Juris Doctor degree in 2006. She also obtained a Diploma in Legal Practice, obtained from the Australian National University, in Canberra. She also received executive legal and business training from (a) The Hague Academy of International Law (Certificate in Private International Law, in 2009), (b) Oxford Said Business School (The Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship Programme, in 2011) and (c) Harvard Kennedy School of Government (Executive Education in Public Policy Analysis, in 2012).Jacqueline Musiitwa in the founder and managing partner of the Hoja Law Group, with offices in New York City and Kigali, founded in 2008. She has served in the past, for a period of nearly two years, as the legal adviser to the President of the Trade and Development Bank, based in Nairobi, Kenya. For nearly two years before that, she served as an advisor to the Director General of the World Trade Organization on matters of trade, economic integration and global governance. From September 2010 until November 2011, Musiitwa served as Advisor to the Rwanda Ministry of Justice and Rwanda's Attorney General's Office, on matters related to trade and investment. She has served in the past as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the National University of Rwanda. She is a member of the Monetary Policy Advisory Committee of the Board of Bank of Zambia. She is also a board member of Crisis Action, an international non-profit aimed at protecting civilians from armed conflict. Ms Musiitwa is expert in African commercial affairs.
- hkej 10may19 shum article
- https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20190907/00176_082.html Kenneth尋日就上載咗一張同外籍舊朋友嘅合照，佢話大家已經認識咗三十幾年，當年仲係鄰居喎。舊朋友再聚當然值得記錄，但佢哋話題竟然唔係閒話家常，而係傾英國脫歐同香港近期嘅示威咁政治，事關呢位名為Shailesh Vara（右）嘅鄰居大有來頭，曾任北愛大臣同埋保守黨副主席
tamil
- Kamala Devi Harris (/ˈkɑːmələ/ KAH-mə-lə; born October 20, 1964) is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States Senator for California since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 32nd Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017, and as District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2010. On January 21, 2019, Harris officially announced her campaign to run for President of the United States in the 2020 United States presidential election. Born in Oakland, California, Harris is a graduate of Howard University and University of California, Hastings College of the Law. In the 1990s, Harris worked in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2004, Harris was elected District Attorney of San Francisco. Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, to a Tamil Indian mother and a Jamaican father. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer scientist who immigrated to the United Statesfrom Madras (now Chennai) in 1960.[4][5] Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at University of California, Berkeley. Her name, Kamala, comes from the Sanskrit word for the lotus flower. Her family lived in Berkeley, California, where both of her parents attended graduate school.[9] She was close to her maternal grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, an Indian diplomat.[5][10] As a child, she frequently visited her extended family in the Besant Nagar neighborhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[11] Harris grew up going to both a black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.[12] She has one younger sister, Maya Harris.[13][14] They both sang in a Baptist choir. Harris's parents divorced when she was 7, and her mother was granted custody of the children by court-ordered settlement.[9][7] After the divorce, her mother moved with the children to Montreal, Québec, Canada, where Shyamala accepted a position doing research at Jewish General Hospital and teaching at McGill University. After graduating from Montreal's Westmount High School in Québec, Harris attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in political science and economics.[18][19] At Howard, Harris was elected to the liberal arts student council as freshman class representative, was a member of the debate team, and joined the Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Harris returned to California, where she earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1989.[8][20] She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1990.
- 美國民主黨副總統候選人賀錦麗（Kamala Harris，圖），其源自印度裔和非裔的名字不時被誤讀，甚至被拿來大做文章。有研究員指出，誤讀名字發音會帶來長遠的負面影響，可能構成種族歧視，或令當事人轉而取較簡單的名字以便他人稱呼，變相貶低身份認同。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200925/00180_005.html
- 丈夫任德龍（Douglas Emhoff）與中國關係密切, 有份合夥的律師事務所幾乎專做中共相關的生意，甚至聘用前中共官員。報道質疑，賀錦麗一旦當選會引起利益衝突，白宮恐被該事務所利用。報道指，該律師事務所聘請不少前中方官員，以加強在中國的業務。其中包括該事務所的訴訟與監管部門主管兼國際仲裁部門聯合主管楊大明（Ernest Yang），生於香港，於二○一三年被任命為中共政協委員，去年更獲委任上海市政協常委。另外，該事務所的高級顧問趙菁（Jessica Zhao），曾任中國國際經濟貿易仲裁委員會（CIETAC）的副秘書長。報道又指，該律師事務所的客戶不少是中國國企，如曾為中國東方航空、中國南方航空、中國黃金集團等，以至有份參與推廣一帶一路倡議的中國招商局，提供顧問服務。該事務所與中國科企騰訊在食品速遞應用程式「每日優鮮」（Miss Fresh）亦有合作關係；美國前防長、拜登支持者科恩創辦的科恩集團，也自稱與該事務所有強大的戰略夥伴關係。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200911/00180_004.html
Filipino
- José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, widely known as José Rizal (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse riˈsal]; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.
He was executed by the Spanish colonial government for the crime of rebellion after the Philippine Revolution, inspired in part by his writings, broke out. Though he was not actively involved in its planning or conduct, he ultimately approved of its goals which eventually led to Philippine independence.He is widely considered one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines and has been recommended to be so honored by an officially empaneled National Heroes Committee. However, no law, executive order or proclamation has been enacted or issued officially proclaiming any Filipino historical figure as a national hero.
José Rizal was born in 1861 to Francisco Mercado and Teodora Alonso in the town of Calamba in Laguna province. He had nine sisters and one brother. His parents were leaseholders of a hacienda and an accompanying rice farm by the Dominicans. Both their families had adopted the additional surnames of Rizal and Realonda in 1849, after Governor General Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa decreed the adoption of Spanish surnames among the Filipinos for census purposes (though they already had Spanish names). Like many families in the Philippines, the Rizals were of mixed origin. José's patrilineal lineage could be traced back to Fujian in China through his father's ancestor Lam-Co, a Chinese merchant who immigrated to the Philippines in the late 17th century. Lam-Co traveled to Manila from Amoy, China, possibly to avoid the famine or plague in his home district, and more probably to escape the Manchu invasion. He finally decided to stay in the islands as a farmer. In 1697, to escape the bitter anti-Chinese prejudice that existed in the Philippines, he converted to Catholicism, changed his name to Domingo Mercado and married the daughter of an indigenous Philippines resident. On his mother's side, Rizal's ancestry included Chinese, Japanese and Tagalog blood. His mother's lineage can be traced to the affluent Florentina family of Chinese mestizo families originating in Baliuag, Bulacan. José Rizal also had Spanish ancestors. His grandfather was a half Spaniard engineer named Lorenzo Alberto Alonzo.
- José Rizal's life is one of the most documented of 19th century Filipinos due to the vast and extensive records written by and about him.[25]Almost everything in his short life is recorded somewhere, being himself a regular diarist and prolific letter writer, much of the material having survived. His biographers, however, have faced difficulty in translating his writings because of Rizal's habit of switching from one language to another. They drew largely from his travel diaries with their insights of a young Asian encountering the West for the first time. They included his later trips, home and back again to Europe through Japan and the United States, and, finally, through his self-imposed exile in Hong Kong.From December 1891 to June 1892, Rizal lived with his family in Number 2 of Rednaxela Terrace, Mid-levels, Hong Kong Island. Rizal used 5 D'Aguilar Street, Central district, Hong Kong Island, as his ophthalmologist clinic from 2 pm to 6 pm. This period of his life included his recorded affections of which nine were identified. They were Gertrude Beckett of Chalcot Crescent, London, wealthy and high-minded Nelly Boustead of the English and Iberian merchant family, last descendant of a noble Japanese family Seiko Usui (affectionately called O-Sei-san), his earlier friendship with Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, and eight-year romantic relationship with a distant cousin, Leonor Rivera(popularly thought to be the inspiration for the character of María Clara in Noli me tangere).
- hk
- commemorative plaque for rizal in central; he practised medicine during 1891-92 in a clinic which once stood on the site of present century square
- according to shum (hkej 7mar18), rizal came to hk in 1888, met with Jose ma basa and drafted 菲律賓同盟會章程
- [precarious belongings] he was a chinese mestizo
- 劉麥嘉軒，JP，本名麥嘉軒（英语：Ayesha Macpherson，1966年－），香港會計師，畢馬威會計師事務所中國香港辦事處稅務主管及合夥人，香港會計師公會稅務委員會主席。她曾任香港政府經濟機遇委員會成員，現任婦女事務委員會成員及財務匯報局財務匯報檢討委員團成員。她亦為智經研究中心召集人。劉麥嘉軒之生父為香港大學比較文學系前系主任亞巴斯（Ackbar Abbas），養父是前香港政府運輸司麥法誠，其母則為消費者委員會首任總幹事張綠萍。已故香港著名歌星、影星張國榮則為其十舅父。劉麥嘉軒第一任丈夫為馬來西亞人，其後離異。現任丈夫則為前香港中文大學校長劉遵義，兩人年齡相差22歲，2010年1月11日成婚[2]。
- Ackbar Abbas is a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. Previously he was chair of comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong and also co-director of the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures.
- 張綠萍cousin is 潘宗光 appledaily 29nov17
- 張綠萍 obitruary scmp 14dec17 c2
indonesians
- Wang Gungwu, AO, CBE ( 王賡武; Wáng Gēngwǔ; born 9 October 1930)[1] is an Australian historian of overseas Chinese descent.[2] He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of Chinese from China because both it mistakenly implies that all overseas Chinese are the same and has been used to perpetuate fears of a "Chinese threat", under the control of the Chinese government.[3] An expert on the Chinese tianxia ("all under heaven") concept, he was the first to suggest its application to the contemporary world as an American Tianxia. Wang was born in Surabaya, Indonesia to emigrant Chinese parents and grew up in Ipoh, Malaysia. He completed his secondary education in Anderson School, an English medium school in Ipoh. Wang studied history in the University of Malaya, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He was a founding member of the University Socialist Club and its founding president in 1953. He holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London(1957) for his thesis The structure of power in North China during the Five Dynasties. He taught at the University of Malaya (in both Singapore and Kuala Lumpur). He was one of the founders of the Malaysian political party Gerakan, but he was not personally involved in the party's activities. In 1968 he went to Canberra to become Professor of Far Eastern History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) at the Australian National University. He subsequently became Director of RSPAS. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kongfrom 1988 to 1995. In 2007, Wang became the third person to be named University Professor by the National University of Singapore.
- scmp 12aug18
vietnamnese
- chinese-vietnamese refugee david tran (huy fong foods which produces sriracha sauce)
- scmp 26may19
indigenous people
- 王州迪Jody Wilson-Raybould PC QC MP (born March 23, 1971), also known by her initials, JWR, is a Canadian politician and the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Vancouver Granville. She served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in the cabinet of Justin Trudeau from 2015 until January 2019 and then as Minister of Veterans Affairs of Canada from January 14, 2019, until resigning on February 12, 2019. Before entering Canadian federal politics, she was a Crown Prosecutor for British Columbia, a Treaty Commissioner and Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations. Wilson-Raybould studied at the University of Victoria and later at the University of British Columbia.Wilson-Raybould is a descendant of the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk and Laich-Kwil-Tach peoples, which are part of the Kwakwaka’wakw, also known as the Kwak’wala-speaking peoples. She is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation. Wilson-Raybould carries the Kwak’wala name Puglaas, which roughly translates to "woman born to noble people". Wilson-Raybould is the daughter of Bill Wilson, a First Nations hereditary chief, politician, and graduate of University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, and Sandra Wilson, a teacher.[4] On Canadian national television in 1983, Wilson-Raybould's father informed then-Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau that his two daughters hoped to become lawyers and then Prime Minister some day.[4][5] Born at Vancouver General Hospital, she was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, attending Robert Scott Elementary School in Port Hardy, British Columbia, where her mother also taught, and later Comox, British Columbia, graduating from Highland Secondary School.
Patrick Drahi (Hebrew: פטריק דרהי; born 1963) is a Moroccan-born businessman with French, Portuguese and Israeli citizenship, living in Switzerland since 1999.[3] He is the founder and controlling shareholder of the Netherlands-based telecom group Altice listed on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange.Patrick Drahi was born in Casablanca, to a Moroccan Jewish family. When he was 15 years old, the family moved to Montpellier, France. His parents are both math teachers. Drahi has an engineering degree from the École Polytechnique university in Paris (a post-graduate degree in optics and electronics).[1][4] He is married and lives in Geneva, Switzerland, with his Syrian Greek Orthodox wife;[5][6] they have four children.
- Takako Nishizaki BBS (born 14 April 1944) is a Japanese violinist. She was the first student to complete the Suzuki Method course, at age nine. Nishizaki came to the United States from Japan in 1962. She first studied with Broadus Erle at Yale University, and later with Joseph Fuchs at Juilliard. [2] In 1964, she was a runner-up in the Leventritt Competition, in which Itzhak Perlman won first prize.[3] In 1966, she was awarded Juilliard's Fritz Kreisler Scholarship. In 1969, she won first prize in the Juilliard Concerto Competition performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violist Nobuko Imai. Some of Nishizaki's recordings with Slovak Philharmonic under Kenneth Jean by Naxos Records of famous violin concertos are highly ranked by The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music.
Anne-Marie Balfe has 14 years of international human resources experience, having worked in London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong. She joined EY in New York in 2005, and has worked in a variety of People-related roles in the US, Japan and Hong Kong. She is currently the People Leader for EY's Asia Pacific Financial Services division, as well as the Diversity and Inclusiveness Leader for Asia-Pacific. http://www.bm.ust.hk/Alumni-Development/image/2013-may/AnneMarieBalfe.pdf
Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (8 July 1803 – 9 August 1851), anglicised as Charles Gutzlaff, was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, notable as one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and in Korea (1832). He wrote widely read books, such as Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 and 1833, with notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands (1834). He served as interpreter for British diplomatic missions during the First Opium War. Gutzlaff was one of the first Protestant missionaries in China to wear Chinese clothing. Gutzlaff Street in Hong Kong was named after him.
- Born at Pyritz (present-day Pyrzyce), Pomerania, he was apprenticed to a saddler in Stettin, but was able to secure admission to Pädagogium in Halle, and associated himself with the Janike Institute in Berlin. The Netherlands Missionary Society sent him to Java in 1826, where he learned Chinese. Gutzlaff left the society in 1828, and went first to Singapore, then to Bangkok with Jacob Tomlin of the London Missionary Society, where he worked on a translation of the Bible into Thai. He made a brief trip to Singapore in December 1829, where he married a single English missionary Maria Newell. The two returned to Bangkok in February 1830 where they worked on a dictionary of Cambodian and Lao. Before the work was completed, however, Maria died in childbirth, leaving a considerable inheritance. Gutzlaff married again, this time to Mary Wanstall, in 1834. The second Mrs. Gutzlaff ran a school and a home for the blind in Macau. She died in 1849 in Singapore, and was buried there. Gutzlaff's third marriage was to Dorothy Gabriel in England in 1850. In Macau, and later in Hong Kong, Gutzlaff worked on a Chinese translation of the Bible, published a Chinese-language magazine, Eastern Western Monthly Magazine, and wrote Chinese-language books on practical subjects. In 1834 he published Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 and 1833. Along the way he handed out tracts which had been prepared by another pioneer missionary to China, Robert Morrison. In late 1833, he acted as naturalist George Bennett's Cantonese interpreter on his visit to Canton. In 1840, a group of four people (Walter Henry Medhurst, Charles Gutzlaff, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, and John Robert Morrison) cooperated to translate the Bible into Chinese. The translation of the Hebrew part was done mostly by Gutzlaff, with the exception that the Pentateuch and the book of Joshua were done by the group collectively. This translation, completed in 1847, is well-known due to its adoption by the revolutionary peasant leader Hong Xiuquan of the Taipingtianguo movement (Taiping Rebellion) as some of the reputed early doctrines of the organization. This Bible translation was a version (in High Wen-li, Traditional Chinese: 深文理) correct and faithful to the original. In the 1830s Gutzlaff was persuaded by William Jardine of Jardine, Matheson & Co. to interpret for their ships' captains during coastal smuggling of opium, with the assurance that this would allow him to gather more converts. Gutzlaff later assisted in negotiations during the First Opium War of 1839–42. In response to the Chinese government's unwillingness to allow foreigners into the interior, he founded a school for "native missionaries" in 1844 and trained nearly fifty Chinese during its first four years. Unfortunately, Gutzlaff's ideas outran his administrative ability. He wound up being victimized by his own native missionaries. They reported back to him glowing accounts of conversions and New Testaments sold. While some of Gutzlaff's native missionaries were genuine converts, others were opium addicts who never traveled to the places they claimed. Eager for easy money, they simply made up conversion reports and took the New Testaments which Gutzlaff provided and sold them back to the printer who resold them to Gutzlaff. The scandal erupted while Gutzlaff was in Europe on a fundraising tour. Shattered by the exposure of this fraud, Gutzlaff died in Hong Kong in 1851. The Chinese Evangelization Society which he formed lived on, however, to send out Hudson Taylor who founded the successful China Inland Mission. Taylor called Gutzlaff the grandfather of the China Inland Mission.
- buried in hk cemetery
Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errázuriz (15 September 1860 – 1951) was a Chileanpatron of modernism and a style leader of Paris from 1880 into the 20th century, who paved the way for the modernist minimalist aesthetic that would be taken up in fashion by Coco Chanel. Her circle of friends and protégés included Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, and the poet Blaise Cendrars. She was of Basquedescent.Eugenia Huici was born in Chile of Bolivianparents, one of thirteen children born to Ildefonso Huici y Peón, a silver magnate who had fled civil war and moved his family to their estates in La Calera, then a village in the banks of the Aconcagua river, some sixty kilometers (about forty miles) northeast of Valparaíso. Her mother was Manuela Arguedas. Among her siblings were two sisters, Rosa and Ana, and a brother, José. She was also an aunt of Patricia Lopez-Willshaw (1912–2010) née Lopez-Huci, who was married to Arturo Lopez-Willshaw(1900–1962). Eugenia was famous from an early age for her beauty; French nuns supervised the girl's education. The young woman added to her silver-mine inheritance by marrying José Tomás Errázuriz; a young and wealthy landscape painter from a well-known winemaking family. Her first years of marriage were spent at Panquehue Errázuriz, the family's wine estate, where she had a son who died soon after birth; the couple eventually had three surviving children: Maximiliano, Carmen, and María. She soon convinced her husband to move to Paris in 1882, where his brother-in-law Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña was the Chilean consul and was married to Amalia Errázuriz, a beauty who had been painted by John Singer Sargent.
Savitri Devi Mukherji (30 September 1905 – 22 October 1982) was the pseudonym of the Greek-French-English writer Maximiani Portas (pronounced [mak.si.mja.ni pɔʁ.tɑ]; also spelled Maximine Portaz), a prominent proponent of deep ecology[1] and Nazism, who served the Axis cause during World War II by spying on Allied forces in India.[2][3][4] She wrote about animal rights movements and was a leading member of the Nazi underground during the 1960s.Devi authored the animal rights manifesto The Impeachment of Man in 1959[4] and was a proponent of Hinduism[6] and Nazism, synthesizing the two, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to have been sent by Providence, much like an avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu. She believed Hitler was a sacrifice for humanity which would lead to the end of the Kali Yuga induced by those who she felt were the powers of evil, the Jews.[4] Her writings have influenced neo-Nazism and Nazi occultism. Among Savitri Devi's ideas was the classifications of "men above time", "men in time" and "men against time".[7] Rejecting Judeo-Christianity, she believed in a form of pantheistic monism; a single cosmos of nature composed of divine energy-matter. She is credited with pioneering neo-Nazi interest in occultism, deep ecology and the New Age movement, and more contemporaneously has influenced the Alt-right. She also influenced the Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano. In 1982, Franco Freda published a German translation of her work Gold in the Furnace, and the fourth volume of his annual review, Risguardo (1980–), was devoted to Savitri Devi as the "missionary of Aryan Paganism". Savitri was an associate in the post-war years of Françoise Dior, Otto Skorzeny,[11]Johannes von Leers, and Hans-Ulrich Rudel. She was also one of the founding members of the World Union of National Socialists.
- Portas studied philosophy and chemistry, earning two master's degrees and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Lyon.[4] She next traveled to Greece, and surveyed the legendary ruins. Here, she became familiar with Heinrich Schliemann's discovery of swastikas in Anatolia. Her conclusion was that Ancient Greeks were Aryan in origin. Her first two books were her doctoral dissertations: Essai-critique sur Théophile Kaïris (Critical Essay on Theophilos Kairis) (Lyon: Maximine Portas, 1935) and La simplicité mathématique(Mathematical Simplicity) (Lyon: Maximine Portas, 1935).
- In early 1928, she renounced her French citizenship and acquired Greek nationality. Joining a pilgrimage to Palestine during Lent in 1929, Portas decided that she was a National Socialist. In 1932, she travelled to India in search of a living pagan Aryan culture. Formally adhering to Hinduism, she took the name Savitri Devi ("Sun-rays Goddess" in Sanskrit). She volunteered at the Hindu Mission as an advocate against Judeo-Christianity,[8] and wrote A Warning to the Hindus to offer her support for Hindu nationalism and independence, and to rally resistanceto the spread of Christianity and Islam in India.[2] During the 1930s, she distributed pro-Axis propaganda and engaged in intelligence gathering on the British in India. In the late 1930s, through her personal contacts, she enabled Subhas Chandra Bose (leader during World War II of the Axis-affiliated Indian National Army), to make contact with representatives of the Empire of Japan.
- During World War II, Devi's connection to the Axis powers led to a clash with her mother, who served with the French Resistance during the German occupation of France. In 1940, Devi married Asit Krishna Mukherji, a Bengali Brahmin with National Socialist views who edited the pro-German newspaper New Mercury. During 1941, Devi chose to interpret Allied military support for Greece, against Italian and German forces, as an invasion of Greece. Devi and Mukherji continued to gather intelligence for the Axis cause. This included entertaining Allied personnel, which gave Devi and Mukherji an opportunity to question them regarding military matters. The information gathered was passed on to Japanese intelligence officials and contributed to attacks on Allied airbases and army units.
Cornelius Castoriadis (French: [kastɔʁjadis]; Greek: Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης [kastoriˈaðis]; March 11, 1922 – December 26, 1997) was a Greek-French[1] philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group. His writings on autonomy and social institutions have been influential in both academic and activist circles.
- Cornelius Castoriadis (named after Saint Cornelius the Centurion) was born on March 11, 1922 in Constantinople,[99] the son of Kaisaras ("Caesar") and Sophia Kastoriadis.[100] His family had to move in July 1922[99] to Athens due to the Greek–Turkish population exchange. He developed an interest in politics after he came into contact with Marxist thought and philosophy at the age of 13. At the same time he began studying traditional philosophy after purchasing a copy of the book History of Philosophy (Ιστορία της Φιλοσοφίας, 1933, 2 vols.) by the historian of ideas Nikolaos Louvaris. Sometime between 1932 and 1935, Maximiani Portas (later known as "Savitri Devi") was the French tutor of Castoriadis. During the same period, he attended the 8th Gymnasium of Athens in Kato Patisia, from which he graduated in 1937. His first active involvement in politics occurred during the Metaxas Regime (1937), when he joined the Athenian Communist Youth (Κομμουνιστική Νεολαία Αθήνας, Kommounistiki Neolaia Athinas), a section of the Young Communist League of Greece. In 1941 he joined the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), only to leave one year later in order to become an active Trotskyist.[103] The latter action resulted in his persecution by both the Germans and the Communist Party.
- Once in Paris, Castoriadis joined the Trotskyist Parti Communiste Internationaliste (PCI).
- At the same time (starting in November 1948), he worked as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) until 1970, which was also the year when he obtained French citizenship. Consequently, his writings prior to that date were published pseudonymously, as "Pierre Chaulieu," "Paul Cardan," "Jean-Marc Coudray" etc.
- The concept of "autonomy" appears to be a key theme in his early postwar writings and he continued to elaborate on its meaning, applications and limits until his death, gaining him the title of "Philosopher of Autonomy". The word itself is Greek, where auto- means 'for/by itself' and nomos means 'law,' defining the condition of creating one's own laws, whether as an individual or as a whole society. Castoriadis noticed that while all societies construct their own unique laws and institutions, members of autonomous societies are fully aware of this fact and explicitly self-institute.[147] In contrast, members of heteronomous societies (hetero- 'other') delegate this process to extra-social authorities and attribute their imaginaries to gods or ancestors or, in modern ideologies, to historical necessity.
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (Swedish: [ˈɪŋːvar ˈkamːprad] ; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish business magnate. He was the founder of IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. He lived in Switzerland from 1976 to 2014. Kamprad was born in Pjätteryd (now part of Älmhult Municipality), Kronobergs län, in Småland, Sweden, to Frans Feodor Kamprad and Berta Linnéa Matilda Nilsson.[6] His mother was of Swedish origin, while his father was born in Germany and came to Sweden aged one with his parents. Kamprad's paternal grandfather Achim Erdmann Kamprad was originally from Altenburger Land in Thuringia, and his paternal grandmother Franzisca ("Fanny") Glatz was born in Radonitz (Radonice) in Bohemia in then-Austria-Hungary; they left Germany for Sweden in 1896. The surname Kamprad was a variant of "Comrade" and dates back to the 14th century; in the 19th century the Kamprad family had become wealthy estate owners in Thuringia. Achim Kamprad's mother was a cousin of Paul von Hindenburg. Achim was the younger son of an estate owner and had bought the farm Elmtaryd (presently standardized Älmtaryd) near the small village of Agunnaryd (now part of Ljungby Municipality) in the province of Småland; with 449 hectares of land it was the largest farm in the area.[6] He committed suicide a few years after Frans Feodor was born, leaving the farm to Franzisca and with time Franz Feodor. Ingvar Kamprad lived on the farm with his parents, sister and grandmother from the age of 6.Ingvar Kamprad visited his family's ancestral town in Thuringia and kept in contact with relatives there.
Peter Charles Percival Hambro (born 18 January 1945) is one of the founders of Petropavlovsk plc, (formerly Peter Hambro Mining), a large gold mining businesses in Russia.Peter Hambro was born on 18 January 1945.[1] One of his paternal ancestors, Carl Joachim Hambro, was a Danish banker. Hambro was educated at Eton College and Aix-Marseille University. Hambro initially worked at a firm of accountants.[1] He then briefly worked at Hambros Bank before moving on to Smith St Aubyn, a discount house, where he became a Managing Director in 1973.[1] From 1983 to 1990 he worked at Mocatta & Goldsmid, a bullion house, where he became Deputy Managing Director. With Pavel Maslovskiy, Hambro co-founded Peter Hambro Mining, now renamed Petropavlovsk plc, in 1994.[He serves as its chairman.Hambro is also a non-executive chairman of Sundeala Limited and a member of the Board of several family companies.Hambro married Karen Brodrick in 1968. They have three sons.
- Petropavlovsk plc (LSE: POG) (formerly Peter Hambro Mining plc) is a London-based gold mining company with operations in Russia. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
The Group was founded by Peter Hambro and Pavel Maslovskiy in 1994 as an Anglo-Russian venture to develop a highly-prospective, under-developed gold project in the Amur region, Russian Far East. Since then, Petropavlovsk has grown from strength-to-strength and is now a major, multi-mine, Russian gold producer. In 2002, the Company was first listed on the Alternative Investment Market. Peter Hambro Mining fully acquired Aricom, a business formed by Peter Hambro and Pavel Maslovskiy and operating in the Amur Region, in April 2009. It was also first fully listed on the London Stock Exchange in April 2009. In September 2009, the company changed its name from Peter Hambro Mining plc to Petropavlovsk plc, retaining the POG stock exchange code, in order to reinforce its Russian focus.In October 2010, the company floated its non-precious metals division (the assets previously held by Aricom plc) on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong as IRC Ltd (Stock Exchange Code: HK1029).
Karin Malmstrom
- http://www.scmp.com/article/437909/karin-malmstrom-means-business-china
- http://www.amcham.org.hk/events/eventdetail/1847/-/cotton-consumption-china-and-commerce-trends-and-considerations Karin Malmstrom joined Cotton Council International (CCI) as its Director for China and Hong Kong in April 2006. She heads up CCI’s trade servicing programs, supply chain marketing activities, consumer promotions and government affairs in the region, as well as manages CCI’s offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai and its representative office in Beijing. Karin, an accomplished Sinologist with over 30 years of China-related experience joined CCI from Malmstrom Associates Orient, a business and marketing and communication consultancy. Fluent and literate in Mandarin Chinese, Karin has worked in a variety of fields in China including the auto, steel and travel industries, metals and minerals trading, technology transfers, education, journalism and communications. Immediately prior to establishing Malmstrom Associates Orient, she was Director of Corporate Communications for DaimlerChrysler China, based in Beijing. Karin graduated cum laude in Asian Studies and Geography from Middlebury College, U.S.A. She continued in executive education at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and at St. Gallens Management Center, both located in Switzerland.
Wan Ling Martello (1958, Philippines) is the current Executive Vice President and Head of the Asia Zone, and former CFO of Nestle, the world's largest food company. She succeeded Jim Singh, executive vice president and CFO, who retired in March, 2012, and preceded François-Xavier Roger. Martello is an American citizen of Chinese and Filipino heritage. Wan Ling has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Accountancy from University of the Philippines-Diliman. She received her MBA from University of Minnesota. Prior to her appointment at Nestle, she worked at Walmart Stores Inc. since 2005 where she had the following roles—Executive Vice President of Global eCommerce, Emerging Markets at Walmart, EVP, COO, Global eCommerce; and Senior Vice President, CFO & Strategy for Walmart International. Her financial experience includes work at NCH Marketing Services, Borden Foods Corp. and Kraft Foods, Inc. She is fluent in English, Mandarin, Hokkien Chinese, Tagalog.
Penelope Ying-Yen "Penny" Wong (born 5 November 1968) is an Australian politician who has represented South Australia in the Senate since 2002, and is the current Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Wong is a member of the Labor Party and was a member of the Federal Cabinet in both the Gillard Government and the first and second Rudd governments. Born in Malaysia to an Australian mother and Malaysian father, Wong was educated at Scotch College in Adelaide, and then attended the University of Adelaide, graduating with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees. Prior to entering Federal parliament, Wong worked as a lawyer and political advisor. Wong is the first Asian-born member of an Australian cabinet.[2] She is the first female openly-LGBTI Australian federal parliamentarian and federal government cabinet minister, and supports legalising same-sex marriage in Australia despite previously opposing it. First elected to the Senate at the 2001 federal election (and sitting from July 2002), Wong was named Minister for Climate Change and Water following Labor's victory under Kevin Rudd at the 2007 election. Wong was born in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, to Jane (née Chapman) and Francis Wong. Her mother was an Australian and her father was Malaysian Chinese of Hakka origin. At the age of eight, after her parents separated, she moved to Adelaide, South Australia, with her mother and younger brother.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (French pronunciation: [(d)ʒo wilfʁid t͡sɔŋɡa]; born 17 April 1985) is a French professional tennis player Tsonga's father, handball player Didier Tsonga, is from Congo, and his mother Évelyne is French. Jo's father moved to France during the 1970s to fulfill his dreams of becoming a handball great, where he eventually met Évelyne and they married. country of residence switzerland.
Matt tsien
- Born in Madagascar, Tsien spent a few years in the African nation before moving to Asia and the United States where he enrolled in the General Motors Institute at the age of 15. In 1976, he started his career as an engineer at Delco Electronics, a subsidiary of GM, before climbing the ladder in the parent company.http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-10/07/content_32930026.htm
Rathakrishnan Govind is the CEO of LSBF Global and is based in Singapore, and serves on its Board of Directors. Prior to 1 March 2017, he was the Managing Director for Singapore and South East Asia. Before starting his career with LSBF in Singapore, Rathakrishnan was a top executive in a private education organisation.
A strong communicator, Rathakrishnan has more than 30 years of working experience, of which more than 20 years was spent at the management level. His career started with the Singapore government at the Ministry of Defence, Special Operations Unit, and spans across various private and non-profit international organisations.
Having held key management positions and having excelled in organisational change and strategy development, Rathakrishnan has successful experience in both cost and profit centres. He is a firm believer of strong structural business foundation with clear policies and processes to drive good governance and productivity in businesses.
Rathakrishnan earned a BSc (Hons) in Business Management from University College Dublin. He believes in precise military style intervention strategies to breakthrough difficult situation for business profitability.http://www.lsbf.edu.sg/school/board-of-directors/
- china daily 7oct17
count albert sc chiang
- Count Chiang Shih Chieh Albert, 世界貿易及經濟投資部長, kingdom of colonia
- 科洛尼亚圣约翰王国（Kingdom of Colonia St John），旧名科洛尼亚王国（Kingdom of Colonia），是约翰·B·德·马里维勒斯，简称“约翰一世”（John B de Mariveles）在1974年於南沙群岛部份岛屿上成立的一个私人国家，其前身是菲律宾探险家和商人托马斯·克洛马（他加祿語：Tomás Cloma y Arbolente）成立的自由地公國。1974年8月，71岁高龄的克洛马宣布辞去自由地“国家元首”的头衔，将其传给约翰·B·德·马里维勒斯“亲王”（Prince John B de Mariveles）。其草台班子成员随后宣布将国名改为科洛尼亚王国（Kingdom of Colonia）。当年11月，克洛马被菲律宾总统费迪南德·马科斯（Ferdinand Marcos）下令逮捕，并交付军事法庭审判，原因是他曾经自称为菲律宾共和国的“海军上将”，被指控招摇撞骗。克洛马被迫签下一份证书，以一菲律宾比索的价格将其王国“出售”给菲律宾，以换取自己的自由。科洛尼亚王国的国王、首相、议长等人面临菲律宾方面的通缉，逃往马来西亚沙巴州的纳闽岛，组建了流亡政府。1975年4月南越灭亡前夕，科洛尼亚王国的海军准将埃里克·斯罗卡（英语：Erik Sroka）正在驾船从马尼拉驶往纳闽岛。南越灭亡的同一天，斯罗卡登上南越非法占据的鸿庥岛，接受了岛上南越守军的“投降”。“科洛尼亚国王约翰一世”随后将斯罗卡任命为总督。科洛尼亚王国后来又更名为科洛尼亚圣约翰王国，但是其主权领土只有网站一座。根据其官方网页的介绍，该王国的护照获得了马来西亚的承认，与哥斯达黎加建立了领事关系，还与壳牌石油公司“签订了150亿美元的海上石油开采合同”，并在2004年“接待中石化的谈判代表[2]。 [note that there is only chinese wikipedia version]
- http://eedcouncil.org/who/who2.htm a MEMBER OF THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
- https://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/is-count-albert-of-the-neil-keenan-team-also-a-con-man-please-please-help-me-research-this-j/
- obitruary scmp 11sep17 c2
Wendi Deng Murdoch was born in Jinan, Shandong, and was raised in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. Her birth name was Deng Wenge (邓文革), Wenge meaning "cultural revolution." She changed it in her teens. She attended Xuzhou First Secondary School (a.k.a. Xuzhou No. 1 Middle School). She developed an interest in playing volleyball. While she was in high school, her father relocated to Guangzhou, where he worked at the People's Machinery Works; she and her family remained behind for a short while. In 1985, at age 16, she enrolled in GuangzhouMedical College. In 1987 she met an American businessman and his wife, Jake and Joyce Cherry, who had temporarily relocated to China and helped build a refrigerator factory. She learned English skills from Joyce. In 1988, she abandoned her medical studies and traveled to the United States on a study permit, with Jake and Joyce Cherry sponsoring her student visa and providing shelter (Jake later became Deng's first known husband). She enrolled at California State University, Northridge, where she studied economics and was famous as being among the top scoring students. She obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from California State University at Northridge and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
- 新聞集團主席梅鐸的四十九歲華裔前妻鄧文迪於周四，上載在法國聖巴特島度假的照片。身穿紅色比堅尼泳衣的鄧文迪，與密友、佳士得亞太區副主席李昕在沙灘上奔跑，鄧文迪又在社交網祝賀對方生日。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171230/00180_030.html- http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/15/politics/jared-kushner-wendi-deng-murdoch/index.htmlCounterintelligence officials warned Jared Kushner in early 2017 that Wendi Deng Murdoch might use her friendship with him and his wife, Ivanka Trump, to help China, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The report said officials were concerned that Murdoch, a Chinese-American businesswoman and a US citizen, might seek to help the Chinese government and was lobbying for a $100 million China-funded garden project at the National Arboretum in Washington. The report also noted such warnings are not unusual and that this one was meant to make sure Kushner knew to be aware of people promoting interests at odds with the US.Farah Khan is a Singaporean entrepreneur, the founder of the luxury retail fashion boutiqueMelium Group and the creative director of the Farah Khan label. In 2011, The Star listed her as one of the top 100 memorable women in Malaysia.[1][2] In 2006, Khan received the Italian Star of Solidarity Order (The Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana) from the Italian Ambassador to Malaysia Alessandro Busacca in conjunction with his country’s national day. This award honours foreign personalities who strengthen ties between Italy and foreign countries in terms of culture, language, humanitarian actions.Khan is the daughter, the third of five siblings, of a former diamond merchant and a lady who owned a Shanghainese-style fashion boutique called Le Bijou in Singapore. She learned the art of tailoring from her mother who made fashion dresses. Khan claims that she sees fashion as a form of self-expression and a means to display her creativity. At 27, Khan divorced her first husband and remarried with Singaporean business tycoon Akbar Khan based in Kuala Lumpur. She adopted the Muslim name Farah Khan and joined her husband in the Malaysian capital.
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- 藍剛
- 上周，《壹週刊》找到他的長子藍章穎，年約60歲的他，亦從事物業中介工作，多年來在香港、溫哥華兩地發展地產事業。十多年前，他走到澳門與德祥地產主席張漢傑及「澳門大亨」馬萬祺家族，合作發展澳門豪宅項目金峰南岸。最後，金峰南岸賺過百億，他卻指被過橋抽板：「我一定追究到底！」並揭開一塊工業爛地如何變成百億金蛋的複雜內情。藍章穎一直生活低調，多年來香港、溫哥華兩邊走，從事兩地地產工作。曾追隨多名地產界猛人，包括馮景禧及南豐陳廷驊，德祥地產主席張漢傑是他多年拍檔，對方一直知道其身份，他記得張漢傑曾任華懋秘書，後來轉到信和任職，張亦曾帶他到合和中心頂樓餐廳與他的前老闆「小甜甜」龔如心吃飯，「我好記得嗰日小甜甜食完就走，張單仲係張漢傑埋」。藍章穎亦介紹陳國強給張認識，兩人惺惺相惜，更經常一起打牌，「我當佢師傅，佢睇市叻，睇契叻，睇到點樣將一塊地轉用途，變金蛋」。https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20181217/20570372 藍章穎是「四大探長」藍剛長子，小學先後就讀培正小學、高主教書院小學，後來在加拿大卑詩省的英屬哥倫比亞大學（University of British Columbia，簡稱UBC）修讀經濟，父親希望他當科學家，但他一畢業已從事地產。https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20181217/20570374
- 林護（1871年－1933年），字裘焯，中國廣東省新會市牛灣鎮上升鄉飛龍村人。生於清同治10年（1871年），於1933年病逝，終年62歲。林裘焯14歲時隨同鄉到澳洲謀生，後來定居香港，林氏年青時初到香港時未有特殊技能，惟有日在港島恰獲銀包乙個，發現內有大量現金，於是在原地守候物主三數小時。後見一男子神色緊張，遊目四顧，於是上前問該男子是否遺失銀包，並將銀包交還。該男子大喜過望，見年青林氏為人忠實，遂邀請林氏到自己所任職之建築公司工作，並教授林氏設計建築圖則之法，林裘謀、林裘焯昆仲自此投身工程界，於1895年創辦聯益建造有限公司（英文：Lam Woo & Company Limited）,成為建築界的巨子之一，建於1911年之聖公會聖保羅堂（現為香港一級歷史建築，簡稱聖保羅堂），即為林護所設計，林氏亦為該教堂四位創立人之一。據林氏第三代後人所指，林氏亦有參與前立法會大樓之設計工作。林氏亦曾經加入同盟會，協助孫中山進行革命活動等[3]。林護有兩名妻子許蒙恩、何奉基，並育有三名兒子、女兒：林植生、林植豪、林植宣、林遂意、林遂恩、林遂蓮，孫兒包括：林柏年、林松年（林植豪家族）、林珏、林昍（林植宣家族）。侄子包括林澤民、林逸民（林裘謀兒子），李林建華是林護的侄孫女（林逸民女兒）。
lawyers
- Tcheng Yu-hsiu (鄭毓秀, 1891–1959), also Soumay Tcheng and Madame Wei Tao-ming, was the first female lawyer and judge in Chinese history. Yu-hsiu studied in Paris, returned to Shanghai to practice law, was president of a court in the French concession, then served in the national Legislative Yuan, and from 1931 to 1937 was president of University of Shanghai school of law. Tcheng was first home-schooled, then was taken by her mother to enroll in a formal school in Beijing. Her revolutionary activities began with her family, as she refused to have her feet bound or to marry the man picked by her grandfather. Her family sent her to a mission school in Tianjin, where she learned English but refused the religion. In 1912, she met the anarchist and revolutionary organizer Li Shizeng and enrolled in the school to prepare to go to France on the Diligent Work Frugal Study program. The school was the first in China to be co-educational. She was one of the handful of women to go to France on the program.[1] She wrote later that she and Li were part of a terrorism cell which was involved in the attempted assassination of Yuan Shih-k'ai, who had taken power from Sun Yat-sen.By 1914 she had established herself in Paris, where she probably met other such Chinese as Wang Jingwei. In 1919, she put her French language skills to work as attachė to the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference. After the war she met and married the lawyer Wei Tao-ming. She received her law doctorate from University of Paris in 1926, and returned to China. She and her husband established a law practice in Shanghai, where she became a judge in a French concession court.She advocated women having their own voices and choices in marriage, and wrote it into the Republic of China's law. She is cited as one of the influences which guided Phan Bội Châu's development of women's rights in Vietnam.Tcheng's nephew Paifong Robert Cheng attended the Sorbonne University under the guidance of his aunt. He held the diplomatic post of the Chinese Ambassador to Cuba from 1946–50. Cheng's son Ching Ho Cheng is an American contemporary artist whose works are collected by several museums across the U.S.
- qiyun bookstore largest private bookroom architecture in shenzhen and was built by her grandfather zheng yao in 1885
journalists
- Alexandra Pascalidou (Greek: Αλεξάνδρα Πασχαλίδου; born July 17, 1970, Bucharest, Romania) is a Greek-Swedish columnist, television hostess, and author. She is also a frequent lecturer, discussion leader, and human rights activist.
- It was announced on 21 January 2016 that Pascalidou would host the semi-final allocation draw for Eurovision 2016, along with Jovan Radomir, in Stockholm, Sweden. Pascalidou is the founder of the criticized New Academy and the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature will be announced in December 2018.
writers
- Xie Wanying (October 5, 1900 – February 28, 1999),[1] better known by her pen name Bing Xin or Xie Bingxin, was one of the most prolific Chinese writers of the 20th Century. Many of her works were written for young readers. She was the chairperson of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Her pen name Bing Xin (literally "Ice Heart") carries the meaning of a morally pure heart, and is taken from a line in a Tang Dynasty poem by Wang Changling.Bing Xin was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, but moved to Shanghai with her family when she was seven months old, and later moved yet again to the coastal port city of Yantai, Shandong, when she was four. Such a move had a crucial influence on Bing Xin's personality and philosophy of love and beauty, as the vastness and beauty of the sea greatly expanded and refined young Bing Xin's mind and heart. It was also in Yantai Bing Xin first began to read the classics of Chinese literature, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin, when she was just seven. In 1913, Bing Xin moved to Beijing. The May Fourth Movement in 1919 inspired and elevated Bing Xin's patriotism to new high levels, starting her writing career as she wrote for a school newspaper at Yanjing University where she was enrolled as a student and published her first novel. Bing Xin graduated from Yanjing University in 1923 with a bachelor's degree, and went to the United States to study at Wellesley College, earning a master's degree at Wellesley in literature in 1926. She then returned to Yanjing University to teach until 1936. In 1929, she married Wu Wenzao, an anthropologist and her good friend when they were studying in the United States. Together, Bing Xin and her husband visited different intellectual circles around the world, communicating with other intellectuals such as Virginia Woolf. In 1940, Bing Xin was elected a member of the National Senate. Later in her life, Bing Xin taught in Japan for a short period and stimulated more cultural communications between China and the other parts of the world as a traveling Chinese writer. In literature, Bing Xin founded the "Bing Xin Style" as a new literary style. She contributed a lot to children's literature in China (her writings were even incorporated into children's textbooks), and also undertook various translation tasks, including the translation of the works of Indian literary figure Rabindranath Tagore.
- 吳文藻 Wu Wenzao was a Chinese sociologist, anthropologist, ethnologist. He was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu. He was admitted into Tsinghua University at 1917. In 1923, his schoolmate Pan Guangdan (Quentin Kuang-tan Pan) persuaded him to go abroad to study at Dartmouth College after his graduation from Tsinghua. The classes in biology, chemistry, and the other natural sciences at Dartmouth greatly influenced him, and he later attempted to have his students use the scientific methods in their social studies. In 1925, he was admitted into Columbia University, and in 1928 he got his PhD in the Department of Sociology. In 1938 he founded the Department of Sociology of Yunnan University, after 1950 he served as a professor of Central College for Nationalities. Fei Xiaotong, Lin Yaohua, Huang Huajie, Qu Tongzu were his students. Wu greatly promoted localization of sociologyand ethnology in China as a whole.
- 已故著名女作家「冰心」的女兒吳青，在北京師範大學開設的書店，被校方要求在下周六前清空。吳青的書店藏有五萬冊書，當中不乏絕版書籍，她已在社交平台上呼籲愛書人前去購書。吳青曾在北京外語大學任教、在電台主持教英文節目，學問不亞於其母。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190412/00178_011.html
showbiz
- talk at cuhk on 14nov19 em 21oct19
- Krzysztof Zanussi, (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate Schoolin Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop.[1] He is also a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice.He was born in a family of Italian ancestry, as an only child of Jerzy and Wanda Zanussi. Zanussi studied physics at Warsaw University (Uniwersytet Warszawski) and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński) in Kraków. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź (1967).
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- a year of the quiet sun 1984
- David William Duchovny /dʊˈkʌvni/ (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He is known for playing FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files and writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards.Duchovny was born in New York, in 1960.[1] He is the son of Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram "Ami" Duchovny (1927–2003), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee.[2][3][4] Duchovny's mother is a Scottish Presbyterian emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland. His father was Jewish;[8][9][10] Duchovny's paternal grandfather was a Jewish emigrant from Berdychiv, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), and Duchovny's paternal grandmother was a Jewish emigrant from Russian Poland (now in Poland).[11][12][13][14] His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.[2][15][16]Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys; both are in Manhattan. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa[17] from Princeton University[3] in 1982 with an A.B. summa cum laude in English literature. He was a member of Charter Club, one of the university's eating clubs. In 1982, his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets. The title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels.[18] He played junior varsity basketball at Princeton.[19] He earned a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished.[3] The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis is Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry.
- As a social activist, Duchovny is supportive of environmentalism and an enthusiast for electric vehicle technology. He appeared as a part of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival in support of the film Revenge of the Electric Car.
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