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Scalpers snap up local paper after profile on Fields winner Wang Hong goes viral

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Copies of the official paper of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Party of China are not usually a hot commodity. But the Saturday edition of Guangxi Daily became an overnight collector’s item after its front-page story on Wang Hong – who last week received the prestigious Fields Medal alongside her compatriot Deng Yu – went viral online. Wang, who hails from the southern region, took home the highest honour for mathematicians under the age of 40 on July 23. Both...

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