Xinhua photojournalist who reported the 1991 Gulf War from Baghdad and long covered the Middle East. His bestselling memoir 我从战场归来 made him famous under the nickname 唐老鸭, Donald Duck.
Tang Shizeng wrote bestsellers such as I Returned from the Battlefield.
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culture
Donald Duck is 唐老鸭 in Chinese, 唐 standing for 'Don', so the name came easily to a Tang with a short fuse: colleagues gave it to him for the way he shouted his way through crowds to get his shot.
history
In 1997 he was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia, which he suspected came from depleted-uranium dust on his five trips to Iraq. He died of leukaemia in 2026.
