Notable Alumni
- Mo Yan, writer, 2012 Nobel Literature Prize laureate.
- Liu Xiaobo, writer and a leading dissident, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- Chai Ling, dissident, student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
- Wu'er Kaixi, dissident, student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
- Yuan Guiren, professor of philosophy, the current Minister of Education in the People's Republic of China.
- Xu Jialu, professor of Chinese, politician, former vice chairman of National People's Congress.
- Yu Dan, professor, well known for her popular yet controversial lectures about Analects broadcasted on China Central Television.
- Su Tong, novelist.
- Xie Jun, chess grandmaster.
- Lang Ping, gold medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics women's volleyball, former head coach of the U.S. women's national volleyball team.
- Chen Yibing, gymnast, 2008 Summer Olympics gold medalist in men's ring.
- Wang Xiaodong, biochemist at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, member of United States National Academy of Sciences, currently Director and Investigator at The National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS, Beijing).
- Timothy Geithner, the 75th and current United States Secretary of the Treasury. He was a language student studying Mandarin in 1982 as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College.
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