Peking University has been hit hard amidst the latest COVID-19 outbreak, which began at the end of 2022.
Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 10, 2023, at least 12 professors at Peking University have died, including Zhai Zhonghe, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Chen Zhanan, former dean of the School of Marxism at Peking University. All 12 current and former professors were members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Zhai, a cell biologist and academician died from an unnamed illness in Beijing on Feb. 10 at the age of 93. The obituary praised him for being “an outstanding member of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Zhai was admitted to the Department of Biology at Tsinghua University in 1950 and was sent to the former Soviet Union to study in 1951….