Shing tung yau biography of abraham

Shing-Tung Yau was the fifth of the eight children of his parents Chen Ying Chiou and Yeuk-Lam Leung Chiou.

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He has a younger brother Stephen Shing-Toung Yau (born 1952) who is also an exceptional mathematician. His father was an economist and philosopher working in southern China when Yau was born. However, by late 1949 the Communists were in control of almost all of China and Yau's family fled to Hong Kong where his father obtained a position teaching at a College.

(The College later became a part of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.) In the interview [76] Yau gives more details:-

My father went to Japan to study economics, but he came back to help the Chinese defend themselves before the Japanese invaded in 1937.

By the end of the war he was distributing food and clothes to the poor for the U.N. After the revolution in 1949, he worried about getting in trouble with the Communists, so he brought the whole family to Hong Kong. We were very poor - at first we wer