Li Ming-Qiang (Chinese: 李名強, also spelled Li Min-Chan) - is a Chinese classical pianist. He studied under Alfred Wittenberg and Tatiana Kravchenko, and as a young pianist in the late 1950s and early 1960s won awards at several Eastern European music competitions: the Smetana Competition in Prague in 1957 (3rd prize), the George Enescu International Piano Competition in Bucharest in 1958 (1st prize), the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition (sic) in Warsaw in 1960 (4th prize). His recordings comprise pieces by the classics and romantics, as well as piano music by Chinese composers. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Li Ming-Qiang was sent to a work farm and allegedly subjected to torture. Unfortunately, the Cultural Revolution marked the end of his career as a c