Dai Qing
(b. 1941), Chinese journalist and environmental activist. Dai Qing is the adopted daughter of Ye Jianying, who was a high-ranking government official. Raised in a privileged revolutionary fam...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE DAM BREAKS (The Washington Post, Washington)
FOR CHINA'S communist leadership, which gathers today for a
major party congress, the gi...
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Beijing (dpa) - About 40 rights activists and dissident writers
appealed to China's communist leaders Tuesday to uphold the Olympic
spirit by allowing greater freedom, as tw...
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BEIJING, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Chinese police on Saturday
prevented some mourners from attending a funeral for a
dissident jailed for his part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square
protests, his lawyer and a f...
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BEIJING, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Chinese police on Saturday
prevented some mourners from attending a funeral for a
dissident jailed for his part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square
protests, his lawyer and a f...
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Wang Zhushu rarely sleeps at night. Instead, the 61-year-old retiree paces, listening to the drone of passing ships that shake the walls of her house on the banks of the Yangtze River.Wang's one-st...
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BAODING, China, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Dusty villages far from
China's capital are paying their own price for the government's
plan to stage a postcard-perfect Olympic Games, enduring
shrunken crops, ...
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