Hawking's death triggers emotional goodbyes, tributes in China
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The death of British physicist Stephen Hawking unleashed a flood of tearful goodbyes on Chinese social media while state television and newspapers paid tribute to the man who had featured in many a school essay in China over the years.