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Obligatory nitpick: > Yang Liwei became the first Chinese person to go to space Should probably be the first Chinese national to go into space. The first ethn
by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Obligatory nitpick:
> Yang Liwei became the first Chinese person to go to space
Should probably be the first Chinese national to go into space. The first ethnically Chinese person in space was Chinese-born Taylor Wang.
Interestingly, in a pub-quiz question kind of way, the first Chinese-born woman in space was... Shannon Lucid.
- bilbo0s 10y agoWell... as long as we're nitpicking historical details... Lucid is CHINA-born... not Chinese-born. She's not ethnically Chinese.
- quirkafleeg 10y ago> Lucid is CHINA-born... not Chinese-born. What is it you think "Chinese-born" means? > She's not ethnically Chinese. Yes, that's why I said Chinese-born and not Chinese.