Sunday, December 17, 2023

Heaven to Earth


In the second episode of the educational TV program “Champions Talk: From the Arena to the Workplace”, co-produced by the Peking University Youth League Committee and China Education Television (CETV), and broadcasted on CETV Channel 1 Sunday, December 17, 2023, 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) shared with the audience her journey from being an unrivaled Women’s World Chess Champion to a full University Professor.

5 comments:

Ulises said...

She seems to get prettier by the day.

Were you able to watch the full episode?

Lorenzo said...

Not yet, since I've been out all day. I'll give it a try this evening.

Ulises said...

I just saw that you were Hou Yifan's translator once! (https://linuxinterflorence.blogspot.com/2014/02/blair-witch-project.html)

It must have been an amazing experience.

Lorenzo said...

Yeah, that was the account of 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán)'s day in Genoa and was written by the president of the local club. The editor of an Italian chess magazine, on the April 2014 issue, reproduced such account almost verbatim, endorsing its truthfulness, which is quite questionable considering that he was not present. In this latter circumstance, however, I asked and obtained that a major correction was made, and thus the phrase "She was accompanied by her parents (and especially by her omnipresent mother)" was replaced with "From the outside, we can only imagine how many pressures, flatteries and ordeals a Women's World Champion has to face when she moves in public, even if her mother is always at her side to support and advise her."

Lorenzo said...

https://linuxinterflorence.blogspot.com/2014/05/mamma-ho-riperso-laereo-mi-sono.html