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Born in Beijing in 1955, Feng grew up during the tumult of China’s Cultural Revolution, in which Mao Zedong’s efforts to renew the nation’s spirit of revolution and purge intellectuals resulted in mass starvation and economic disaster.
This side of Cambridge has had its fair share of walk-on wonders. Michelle Guerette ’02, a former walk-on, took the silver medal in the silver scull at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A year after she graduated, the Radcliffe Heavyweights won the NCAA Championships thanks in...
So far that hasn't happened. The Chinese government has cracked down on activists just as aggressively during the first few weeks of 2010 as it did last year. In the past week, a court in Sichuan sentenced an activist investigating the deaths of children in schools that collapsed in...
Tan's conviction preceded the ruling on Thursday by a Beijing court confirming the Christmas Day 2009 sentencing of Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic who was a chief author of Charter 08, a document that called for the Chinese government to uphold many of the values enshrined in the country...
Perhaps the most disturbing recent case has been that of Gao Zhisheng, who hasn't been seen or heard from since he was detained by police in Beijing on Feb. 4, 2009. An uncompromising, self-taught lawyer, Gao once handled cases few others would touch - involving dispossessed villagers, members of...