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Stalin coexisting with Trotsky; Rockefeller and Col 8220;KFC8221; Sanders sharing space with Marx and Engels; Kissinger next to Kim Il-Sung. The eclectic gathering is of 8216;50 foreigners shaping China8217;s modern development8217;, a list published recently in China8217;s People8217;s Daily Online. The list, which includes two Indians, Tagore and Nehru and refers to the latter only as 8216;former president of the INC8217;, has a mix of the obvious and the frankly inexplicable 8212; Sir Henry McMahon, for example, whose line dividing India and China is disputed by the latter.
A subsequent article explains the idea saying 8216;8216;China8217;s looking forward naturally bears the shadow of the past8217;8217;. It notes the heavy US presence after reforms began yet stating that China could learn more from Europe in building a harmonious society. The list is produced verbatim below:
Arranged according to the date of birth, the 50 foreigners are
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778: Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist and thinker
George Macartney 1737-1806: British diplomat
Thomas Robert Malthus 1766-1834: British political economist and founder of population theory
Charles Elliot 1801-1875: Chief Superintendent of the trade of British subjects to China during Opium War
Hans Andersen 1805-1875: Well-known Danish writer of fairy tales
Charles Darwin 1809-1875: Famous British Naturalist
Karl Marx 1818-1883: German philosopher, thinker, social scientist and political theorist
Friedrich Engels 1820-1895: German philosopher, thinker and political theorist
John Glasgow Kerr 1824-1901: Follower of Presbyterian Church USA
William Alexander Parsons Martin 1827-1916: U.S.8217; Protestant missionary to China
Henrik Ibsen 1828-1906: Great Norwegian playwright
Alfred Graf Von Waldersee 1832-1904: German army man and Commander in chief of Eight-Power Allied Force in August 1900
Hobert Hart 1835-1911: General Commissioner of Customs to China for half century
Ito Hirobumi 1841-1909: Japanese statesman
Timothy Richard 1845-1919: British missionary
Arthur Henderson Smith 1854-1932: American Congregational Church missionary to China
Silas Aaron Hardoon 1849-1931: Richest Jewish businessman specialising in real estate through plundering China8217;s wealth before national liberation in 1949
Sigmund Freud 1856-1939: Austrian originator of psychoanalysis
Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941: One of India8217;s greatest poet, writer, artist as well as social activist
McMahon 1862-1949: British officer who took part in Simla Convention in early 20th century with an aim of separating Tibet from China
Marie Curie 1876-1934: First woman Nobel Prize winner
Maksim Gorky 1868-1936: Great proletarian writer of former Soviet Union
Vladimir Lenin 1870-1924: Founder of former Soviet Union and Communism
John D. Rockefeller, Jr 1874-1960: Son of the creator of Standard Oil and philanthropist
Stalin Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili 1879-1953: Great former Soviet Union leader
Albert Einstein 1879-1955: German-born American physicist
Leon Trotsky 1879-1940: One of the earliest leaders of Russia and Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945: 23rd U.S. president
Yasuji Okamura 1884-1966: Commander in chief of Japanese troop stationed in China
Mikhail Markovich Borodin 1884 8211; 1951: Envoy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to China
Nehru 1889-1964: Former chairman of India National Congress
Norman Bethune 1890-1939: Great internationalist from Canada
Harland Sanders 1890-1980: Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC
Nikita Khrushchev 1894-1971: Former premier of the Soviet Union
Matsusita Kounosuke 1894-1989: Founder of Panasonic, world8217;s renown household appliance in Japan
Armand Hammer 1898-1990: President of America8217;s Occidental Petroleum
Hirohito 1901-1989: Emperor of Japan
Otto Braun Li De in Chinese 1901-1974: Military advisor Communist International of Germany to China
Ivan V. Arkhipov 1907-1998: Vice minister of Metallurgy in former Soviet Union
Kim Il Sung 1912-1994: Founder of Democratic People8217;s Republic of Korea
Richard Milhous Nixon 1913-1994: One of the most influential presidents in American history
Kakuei Tanaka 1918-1993: Former Japanese prime minister and most powerful and aggressive faction leader in the LDP
Juan Antonio Samaranch 1920-: Former IOC president and social activist from Spain
Henry Alfred Kissinger 1923-: Former U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State
Alvin Toffler 1928-: American sociologist
Ken Takakura 1931-: Famous Japanese actor
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 1931-: President of former Soviet Union
Steven Spielberg 1947-: Famous Hollywood movie director
Bill Gates 1955-: Founder of software giant Microsoft
Michael Jordan 1963-: American basketball legend
8212; People8217;s Daily Online
