Gao Xingjian
The novelist, playwright and translator Gao Xingjian, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, worked in the magazine as the chief of its French edition from 1975 to 1977. The actor, translator and politician Ying Ruocheng briefly worked for the English edition of the magazine in the 1960s. He went on to serve as China's vice minister of culture in the 1980s and played a supporting role in the 1987 Oscar-winning film "The Last Emperor".