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Top Fifteen Influential Foreigners to China in the past 60 Years


1.Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (毕加索)
(25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Commonly known simply as Picasso, he is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art.

2.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (尼采)
(October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a 19th century German philosopher and classical philologist. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism.

3.Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (托尔斯泰)
(September 9 1828 – November 7 1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.

4.Karl Heinrich Marx (马克思)
(May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. Marx summarized his approach in the first line of the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

5.Jean Jacques Rousseau (卢梭)
(Geneva, 28 June 1712 – Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought.

6.Francis Bacon (培根)
(22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works. Indeed, his dedication may have brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

7.William Shakespeare (莎士比亚)
(baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.

8.Ludwig van Beethoven (贝多芬)
(17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time.

9.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (歌德)
(28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and, according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters… and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science.

10.Friedrich Engels (恩格斯)
(28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. Together they produced The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Engels also edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx's death.

11.Hans Christian Andersen (安徒生)
(April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", and the "The Ugly Duckling".During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide, and was feted by royalty.

12.Edgar Parks Snow (斯诺)
famous American writer and journalist. He was a forever friend of Chinese people. His work Red Star Over China was a report that rouse world attention to China’s communist party and people’s struggle toward invaders.

13.Rabindranath Tagore (泰戈尔)
(7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian -Bengali polymath. As a poet, novelist, painter ,musician, and playwright, he reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia's first Nobel laureate by winning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

14.Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (柯南道尔)
(22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger.

15.Haruki Murakami (村上春树)
(born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered by critics an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists."