RE: Random Thoughts
January 10, 2025 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2025 at 11:42 am by Fake Messiah.)
I've noticed that there are articles on Wikipedia about ordinary Chinese citizens.
Take Wang Zhengguo. If you read his article, you will learn that he was a medical engineer who worked at the Military Medical University and he won a few awards in his field (as anyone does when they work long enough). That is all. He was not a public figure, he did not write any books, and there is no mention of him inventing or working on anything noteworthy; perhaps he taught on Military Medical University if he worked there. In any case, he appeared to be a very private, unremarkable person. Why would he need an entry in a world encyclopedia is puzzling. Perhaps it is a product of the communist mentality, in which they sometimes pretend that ordinary people are very important and even put their faces on money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Zhengguo
Take Wang Zhengguo. If you read his article, you will learn that he was a medical engineer who worked at the Military Medical University and he won a few awards in his field (as anyone does when they work long enough). That is all. He was not a public figure, he did not write any books, and there is no mention of him inventing or working on anything noteworthy; perhaps he taught on Military Medical University if he worked there. In any case, he appeared to be a very private, unremarkable person. Why would he need an entry in a world encyclopedia is puzzling. Perhaps it is a product of the communist mentality, in which they sometimes pretend that ordinary people are very important and even put their faces on money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Zhengguo
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