15 Facts About Tsien Hsue-shen

Tsien Hsue-shen decided to return to mainland China, but he was detained at Terminal Island, near Los Angeles.

Tsien Hsue-shen left the United States in September 1955 on the American President Lines passenger liner SS President Cleveland, arriving in China via Hong Kong.

Tsien Hsue-shen is recognized as one of the founding fathers of Two Bombs, One Satellite.

Tsien Hsue-shen served as a Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1987 to 1998.

Tsien Hsue-shen was the cousin of engineer Hsue-Chu Tsien, who was involved in the aerospace industries of both China and the United States; his nephew is Roger Y Tsien, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Tsien Hsue-shen graduated from The High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University, with Lu Shijia as classmate, and attended National Chiao Tung University in 1934.

Tsien Hsue-shen was influenced by the methods of American engineering education, especially its focus on experimentation.

Tsien Hsue-shen's experiments included plotting of pitot pressures using mercury-filled manometers.

Tsien Hsue-shen was no more a communist than I was, and we forced him to go.

Tsien Hsue-shen became associated with the China's Space Program - From Conception to Manned Spaceflight initiative.

Tsien Hsue-shen organized scientific seminars and dedicated some of his time to training successors for his positions.

Tsien Hsue-shen was heavily involved in the establishment of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1958 and served as the Chairman of the Department of Modern Mechanics of the university for a number of years.

Tsien Hsue-shen was among the creators of systematics, and made contributions to science and technology systems, somatic science, engineering science, military science, social science, the natural sciences, geography, philosophy, literature and art, and education.

Tsien Hsue-shen particularly encouraged scientists to accumulate observational data on qigong so that "future scientific theories could be established".

Tsien Hsue-shen's deportation is mentioned in Last Night at the Telegraph Club, a 2021 novel by Malinda Lo.