{"id":85892,"date":"2025-05-08T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85892\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:44:10","slug":"china-welcomes-back-physics-star-lin-shaozhen-and-out-comes-the-online-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85892\/","title":{"rendered":"China welcomes back physics star Lin Shaozhen \u2013 and out comes the online abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lin Shaozhen has risen in the field of biomechanics to carve out an impressive international career. Now, after spending the past five years at Aix-Marseille University in France, and more recently at the University of Singapore, Lin has returned to work in China.<\/p>\n

In February, Lin, who is in his thirties, took a full-time position as a professor and doctoral supervisor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou in the southern province of Guangdong, according to the university\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

In the past week or so, though, Lin has also been the target of online abuse. Since being appointed to his new position at Sun Yat-sen University<\/a>, some photos of him have appeared on the Chinese social media app RedNote<\/a>, resulting in hundreds of comments mocking his appearance.\"AfterAfter several years abroad, physicist Lin Shaozhen has returned to home to work at China\u2019s Sun Yat-sen University. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

In various photos, the professor\u2019s head appears titled. According to comments online, the condition is a result of congenital muscular torticollis, also known as wryneck.<\/p>\n

The South China Morning Post contacted Lin for comment.<\/p>\n

Lin was born in the city of Ganzhou, in central China\u2019s Jiangxi province, and was part of a \u201chongzhi\u201d high school programme that subsidises students in need.<\/p>\n

He soared academically, eventually establishing himself as a leading physics researcher.<\/p>\n

To date, he has published 41 Science Citation Index papers in top academic journals. Lin has published three articles as an author and has served as a reviewer in the prestigious physics journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lin Shaozhen has risen in the field of biomechanics to carve out an impressive international career. Now, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3845],"tags":[41333,41326,41334,41330,41332,41335,41339,41338,41324,41325,3824,41336,74,41328,70,41329,41327,16,15,41340,41331,41337],"class_list":{"0":"post-85892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-activation-and-synchronisation-of-the-oscillatory-morphodynamics-in-multicellular-monolayer","9":"tag-biomechanics","10":"tag-chinese-social-media-app-rednote","11":"tag-congenital-muscular-torticollis","12":"tag-excellent-doctoral-dissertation-award-in-mechanics","13":"tag-excellent-graduates-of-tsinghua-university","14":"tag-ganzhou","15":"tag-gaokao","16":"tag-lin-shaozhen","17":"tag-muscular-torticollis","18":"tag-national-university-of-singapore","19":"tag-physical-review-letters","20":"tag-physics","21":"tag-postdoctoral-training","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-sun-yat-sen-university","24":"tag-tsinghua-university","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-university-of-marseille","28":"tag-university-of-singapore","29":"tag-wryneck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}