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1. Chinese National Protection Bill Passed U.S. House (2 Items) ......... 58
2. International Summer School on Physics to Be Held in Tianjin ......... 30
3. Celebration of the Great Family of Chinese Physicists:
   A Gathering of 300 Physicists of Chinese Descendent in Beijing ...... 133
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1. Chinese National Protection Bill Passed U.S. House (2 Items) ......... 58
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>From: IFCSS HQ, <ifcss@wam.umd.edu>
Source: IFCSS HQ Special Report No. 4030. August 10, 1992

The 1992 Chinese Protection Bill made a giant step this afternoon when it
was adopted by the Whole House without objection.

The House started the debate on the bill at about 3:00 pm.  The debate
lasted about 30 minutes and the bill passed the House by voice vote. (The
whole process was shown on C-SPAN).

Because the bill has been amended in the House, it will be returned to the
Senate for consent. If it is passed by the Senate again, it will be sent to
the White House for approval. We will give instructions very soon about what
to do in the next stage.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank those who have contributed
with donations, time and energy in the nation-wide campaign supporting the
protection bill. Let us continue our efforts until the bill is signed into
law.
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>From: Zhao Haiqing, <ZHAO@HUXTAL.BITNET>, IFCSS CCSA

Today, at 3:30 p.m. the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Chinese
Student Protection Act of 1992, S1216. It is a big victory for all the
Chinese nationals in this country;

It is a victory for hundreds and thousands of Chinese students across the
country who have worked on this issue tirelessly for years;

And it is a victory for the cause of human rights in China.

The bill was was on the suspension calender today and the House passed it
with a voice vote.

Last week, we have worked with several key congressional offices on a
strategy that would avoid going through the House Rules Committee for a
closed-rule due to the unpleasant situation on Haitian issue.  The
conclusion was to put the bill quietly on the suspension calender for a
direct House vote without much publicity.

Today, we succeeded.

As I am writing this message, I received two phone calls from Congresswoman
Nancy Pelosi.  She has been working on this bill intensively for the past
few weeks.  She congratulated us and I expressed great appreciation for her
leadership in the House for this bill.  We also discussed future strategy
for this bill in the Senate.

I will keep you informed of any future actions needed.

Your help in the past has been critical to our success.  And we continue to
need your support.

You can help by making donations to the students affairs committee which has
been working on this bill continuously for more than three years.  Recently,
We have not been able to receive enough funds to cover our expenses and to
conduct other much needed activities.  Please make your checks payable to:
CCSA/Immigration Fund, and send to: CCSA, P.O.Box 65307, Washington,D.C.
20035-5307.

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2. International Summer School on Physics to Be Held in Tianjin ......... 30
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>From: Da-Hsuan Feng, <FENG@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU>
Date: Friday, August 7, 1992

The International Summer School on Advanced Topics in Physics (II) will be
held in Tianjin, China from August 20 to August 30 1992. The event is
sponsored by the Theoretical Physics Division of the Nankai Institute of
Mathematics, Department of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin; and Drexel
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The International Summer School on Advanced Topics in Physics was first held
in June of 1991 in the Institute of Mathematics of Nankai University.  The
organizers were very satisfied with the outcome of the school and have
decided to continue the school for the coming summer.  Lectures in the
forefront areas of nuclear and high energy physics will again be the main
features of the school.  In particular, due to the successful e+e- collider
in Beijing in studying charm spectroscopy, we have especially added two
experts in quark spectroscopy, Drs. JOHN NG of Triumf and WU-KI TUNG of IIT,
as lecturers. We are also happy to announce the addition of Professor
XIANGDONG JI as a lecturer as well.  Professor Ji is one of the outstanding
young generation of Chinese theoreticians and was a CUSPEA recipient in the
early eighties.

Young physics researchers (advanced graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows) globally, and especially from the Asia Pacific regions, are
encouraged to participate. Registration fee for the school is $80 US and
food and lodging will not exceed $25/day.

For more information, please contact Professor Da Hsuan Feng, Department of
Physics and Atmospheric Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
19104-9984, 215-895-2719 (O), 215-895-4999 (Fax), <feng@duvm.bitnet>; or
Professor Xue-Qian Li or Professor Guo-Zhu He, Director, T-Division, Nankai
Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Fax: 011-86-22-
344-853.

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3. Celebration of the Great Family of Chinese Physicists:
   A Gathering of 300 Physicists of Chinese Descendent in Beijing ...... 133
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>From: Da-Hsuan Feng, <FENG@DUVM.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, August 6, 1992
BY: Bing-Ling Young, Ames, Iowa.

The following is a report of an event that took place in Beijing this
summer.  It was a gathering of three hundred physicists of Chinese
descendant, from China mainland, Taiwan, and overseas.  It was called
"Celebration of the Great Family of Chinese Physicists" and the Chinese
title is "Zhong Guo Dang Dai Wu Li Xue Jia Lian Yi Zhao Dai Hui".  It will
be an influential event in the Chinese physics community.

The meeting was sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese
Association of Science and Technology Association, based on a suggestion by
Professor T.D. Lee of Columbia University.  He and the China Center for
Advancement in Science and Technology (CCAST) were closely involved in the
planning and execution of the meeting. Professor Lee was instrumental to its
success. I participated the event as a representative of the Overseas
Chinese Physicist Association (OCPA).

The meeting was held on May 31 in the Fangfei Garden of the Diaoyutai State
Guest House.  It started in the late afternoon at about 4:20. The long
summer day allowed us enough time to have a pleasant gethering and it was
also late enough in the day to have a relaxed atmosphere. This was the
second time I have been in the company of so many well-known Chinese
physicists representing many diverse fields in physics. (The first time was
the Jan., 1980 Guangzhou Conference on Theoretical Particle Physics. Sadly,
the Chairman of the organizing committee of that historical conference,
Prof. Qian Sanqiang, passed away on June 28. He was absent from this
gathering as he was already too ill to participate.)

First, let me briefly mention the participants. On the Chinese side, it was
a Who's Who in Physics. Many of the active and well-known physicists in
China were there. I was happy to see, among others, Gao Zhongshou who is a
professor of theoretical physics at Beijing University and with whom I have
interacted several times in the past. If some of you have worried about the
injury he suffered this spring in Minneapolis, I am glad to report that he
looked well and is quite active.

There were some interesting statistics about this meeting: the age
distribution of the 300 participants ranged from 29 to 92 years old and this
year marked the occasion of three significant birthdays: Professor Zhou
Peiyuan and Professor Zhao Zhongyao 90, Professor C.S. Wu 80, and Professor
C.N. Yang 70. This year also marked the sixtieth anniversary of the Chinese
Physical Society.

There were also a number of physicists from Taiwan, Canada and the US. The
ones I recognized were: Wu Ta-you and Wu Maw-Kuen from Taiwan; H.C. Lee from
Canada; Paul Chu, Y.S. Gu, T.D. Lee, C.C. Lin, C.K. Ren, Hai-cang Ren,
Xiao-gang Wen, C.S. Wu, C.N. Yang, Luke Yuan, Shou-cheng Zhang, and myself
from the US.

The meeting was divided into three successive sessions. The first half of
the first session involved opening speeches and congratulatory messages. The
congratulatory messages were sent by Professor Qian Xuesen, Dr. Wen
Xiangang, and OCPA. Dr. Wen is an assistant Professor at MIT, representing
the youngest generation of Chinese Physicists. The opening speeches were
delivered by Professor Yan Jici and Prof. Zhu Guangya. Professor Zhu,
President of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology, was the
session Chairman. Professor Yan Jici was the most senior physicist present
in the meeting. He is one of the founders of the Chinese Physical Society.
Some of you may recall that he was an honorary guest from China at the 1986
Columbia University Symposium in honor of Professor T.D. Lee's sixtieth
birthday.

The second half of the first session consisted of on-the-spot interviews
conducted by Professor T.D. Lee. I believe that no one being interviewed at
the podium was younger than 80 years old. Facing the audience, Professor
C.S. Wu sat just to the left of Professor Lee, and seated further left, in
order, omitting their titles, were Wang Ganchang, Wu Ta-You, Zhou Paiyuan,
Yan Jici, Zhao Zhongyao, Wang Dezhou, and C.K. Ren. Some talked about their
experiences as pioneering physics students and physicists in China, some
were asked about their research accomplishments, and some reminisced about
their studies and their Chinese contemporaries during their studies in the
West. It was very touching to listen to the interviews, giving the younger
physicists in the audience a glimpse into and a feel for what the earliest
period of Chinese physics was like. It was a moving experience for me. I
felt a sense of continuity with earlier Chinese physics that I had never
felt before.  I had always thought my going into physics was my own
decision, only influenced by some of the events taking place at the time I
was ready to make that choice. In fact it was much more than that. A path
had been laid out long ago which allowed me to follow this partcular road.

After the interview session, some of us in the audience were given the
opportunity to introduce ourselves. Because of time limitations, this was
done for less than one third of the audience. Since I had decided to take
pictures of this historical event, I seated myself in the first row next to
H.C. Lee and we were given a chance to introduce ourselves.

The second session was a photo session. Four top leaders in the Chinese
government attended and some of you may have seen a portion of the
photograph in the People's Daily in the early June. Chairman Jiang Zemin
delivered a warm speech, praising the accomplishments of Chinese physicists
in their research and paid tribute to their contributions to the
modernization drive of China.

After the photo session a buffet dinner was held, giving the participants an
opportunity to mix in a relaxed atmosphere. The food was very appetizing and
was also beautifully arranged (before it was consumed, of course, I have a
picture to remember the beautiful arrangement.) I thoroughly enjoyed the
food and the company. After dinner, speeches were delivered by Professor
Wang Fusong, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on behalf of
President Zhou Guangzhou who was unable to attend, and by Professor Yang
Guozhen, Director of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
a premier condensed matter research institute in China. I took many pictures
during the first session as well as during this one. I remember H.C. Lee was
very disappointed in discovering that he had run out of film in the middle
of this particular session, and I was on my last roll as well. I promised to
send H.C. some of the pictures.

In conclusion, I would like to mention that this was a unique gathering, a
first in the history of Chinese physics. It allowed scientific links to be
established among Chinese physicists past, present and future, and human
experiences to be passed on from one generation of physicists to the next.
Looking at the physicists seated at the podium during the first session gave
me a sense of the origin and development of modern physics in China. Despite
having achieved one of the earliest science and technologies in history,
China's modern physics has had a lonesome beginning, and since then has to
travel an arduous road leading it to what it has become today. This meeting
enabled the participants to gain a sense of unity and continuity, to find
the roots of modern physics in China and to learn its history.  I think to
achieve these is important for the future development of Chinese physics.
Like everything else in China today, physics is developing rapidly, but it
has to remember its origins. By knowing its history, including its
scientific history, China can understand its present and define its role for
the future.

As a general impression of this trip, I felt a sense of dynamic vitality in
the changes occuring in China today.  Professor C.N. Yang's recent speech
given at a New York City luncheon meeting, as reported in some of the
Chinese language newspapers, commented on the tremendous potential stored in
the sciences and technologies in China. I share Professor Yang's optimistic
view.  I wish our Chinese colleagues success in their endeavors to build
strong research and educational programs in physics. Science transcends
national boundaries, and the desire to strive for the improvement of the
welfare of a quarter of all humanity deserves our best wishes and greatest
respect.

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