China: Culture#
World Heritage#
- Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Mogao Caves
- Mount Taishan
- Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
- The Great Wall
- Mount Huangshan
- Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area
- Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area
- Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area
- Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains
- Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa
- Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde
- Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu
- Lushan National Park
- Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
- Ancient City of Ping Yao
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Old Town of Lijiang
- Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
- Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
- Dazu Rock Carvings
- Mount Wuyi
- Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun
- Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
- Longmen Grottoes
- Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System
- Yungang Grottoes
- Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
- Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom
- Historic Centre of Macao
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains
- Yin Xu
- Kaiping Diaolou and Villages
- South China Karst (Phase II)
- Fujian Tulou
- Mount Sanqingshan National Park
- Mount Wutai
- China Danxia
- Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in “The Centre of Heaven and Earth”
- West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou
- Chengjiang Fossil Site
- Site of Xanadu
- Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
- Xinjiang Tianshan
- Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- The Grand Canal
Nobel Prize Winners (13)#
Here persons are counted for the country they born in or if their affiliation is with this country.| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) | Peace | 1989 | |
| Walter Houser Brattain | Physics | 1956 | "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" |
| Edmond H. Fischer | Medicine | 1992 | "for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism" |
| Charles Kuen Kao | Physics | 2009 | "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication" |
| Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee | Physics | 1957 | "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles" |
| Arthur B. McDonald | Physics | 2015 | "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass" |
| Ei-ichi Negishi | Chemistry | 2010 | "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" |
| Daniel C. Tsui | Physics | 1998 | "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" |
| Youyou Tu | Medicine | 2015 | "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria" |
| Liu Xiaobo | Peace | 2010 | "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" |
| Gao Xingjian | Literature | 2000 | "for an æuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama" |
| Mo Yan | Literature | 2012 | "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary" |
| Chen Ning Yang | Physics | 1957 | "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles" |