An wang son

An wang net worth

Professional Experience: research fellow, Harvard Computation Laboratory, ; founder, president, Wang Laboratories, Wang was born in Shanghai, China, on February 7, , the second child and eldest son of the five children of Yin Lu Wang, a teacher of English and a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, and Z. Chien, his wife.

His name, An Wang, means "peaceful king. Then his family moved to his father's ancestral city, Kun San Kunshan , about 30 miles west of Shanghai. Here Wang started his formal education in the private elementary school where his father taught. Because the school lacked the first two grades, he had to start in the third. As a consequence, for the rest of his education in China, he was always two years younger than his classmates, a situation which he said put him at a great disadvantage but from which, in the long run, he benefited because he found that he could quickly learn to swim when faced with the alternative of sinking.

An wang wife

He discovered early that he was good at mathematics but had difficulty with subjects requiring rote memorization, and he always had a hard time concentrating on subjects, such as political doctrine, that did not interest him. His father started teaching him English at home when he was 4. His paternal grandmother diligently tutored him in Confucianism, which he later called "the practical philosophy that has profoundly influenced Chinese character," and which embodied the principles of moderation, patience, balance, and simplicity that he later concluded were important to success in business.

Wang also ascribed to Confucianism his belief that a sense of satisfaction comes from service to one's community. During these school years he found that, although he did poorly during the term in the nonscientific subjects that did not interest him, by concentrating at the term-end he could always perform well enough on the final exams to get by.

This success added to his confidence that he could rise to the occasion when the situation demanded it. By the time Wang was 11 the bloody struggle with the Communists had left the Nationalist Government barely in control of China.