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SPRINGERBRIEFS IN ASTRONOMY THE TWO LIVES OF ...

This book presents the exceptional biography of the 20th century Chinese astronomer Cheng
Maolan  who came to France in 1926 on a China-France cooperation program to do his PhD with the
idea of returning to China after a few years. Instead  he lived two lives. He first stayed in
France and studied astronomy in Lyon  the Silk city  where he suffered the hardships of the
German occupation  but also witnessed the construction of the Haute-Provence Observatory. After
the war  he started a promising career at Lyon Observatory. However  in 1957 he decided to live
a second life  by returning to the motherland  which had in the meantime become the People's
Republic of China. There  he suffered the hardships of the Cultural Revolution  but he managed
to play a pivotal role in establishing the Beijing Observatory as its director. In particular 
he prepared the ground for the Xinglong 2-m telescope  which saw its first light in 1989  ten
years after his death. Cheng Maolan is now considered a Chinese hero: an Astronomy and
Technology Museum was built and named after him in 2018  in his native city of Boye  Hebei
Province  China  featuring a tall  white statue in front of the building.

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