C. N. Yang Discusses Physics in People's Republic of China
Before the cultural revolution started in 1966, high-energy theorists in the People's Republic of China were very active, according to Chen Ning Yang, who recently returned from a month-long visit there. He learned that in 1965 or 1966 Chinese theorists had developed a theory of “stration” (for strata) that very much parallels the quark theory, which was proposed by Murray Gell-Mann and by George Zweig in 1964…