Sheng-Wei Wang was born on June 27, 1950, in Pingtung, Taiwan. She graduated from National Tsing Hua University with a B.S. degree in chemistry. After earning a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Chemical Physics from University of Southern California, she performed many years of scientific research at Caltech, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). Prior to becoming in late 2006 the President of China-U.S. Friendship Exchange, Inc., she was a self-made California real estate developer for 15 years.
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She considered herself nonpolitical until Taiwan's 2004 presidential election. She used her physics research skills to write a JFK-conspiracy-exposé arguing that President Chen Shui-bian's minor skin wound must have been staged. This made her a well-known Chinese-American media figure (Nat Friedland, The San Francisco Examiner, 03/16/05). In order to strive for peace across the Taiwan Strait, she devoted her efforts to China's peaceful reunification. She has become a political writer who produced newsletters for members of the U.S. Congress and published many articles in Chinese and English. She translated Taiwanese author Hsing Chi's "One Country, Two Systems" in Taiwan into English and had it published in the U.S. in 2006 by International Publishing House for China's Culture. Her latest essays "For Whom the Bell May Toll?" and "The Blue Danube on Gulangyu Islet" appear on American Chronicle's May 1 and May 12, 2007, issues. She is also the author of a forthcoming English-language book China's Ascendancy: an Opportunity or a Threat? - Facts and Fiction.
Dr. Wang is married to Michel A. Van Hove, a Belgian and a Cambridge Ph.D. in Physics. They have no children. Dr. Van Hove, a Senior Research Scientist at LBL for nearly 30 years, is now the Head and Chair Professor of Physics and Material Science at City University of Hong Kong. His late father Léon Van Hove pioneered the "Van Hove Singularity" concept in 1953.