Word: chenge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George C. Cheng '88 said, "It's a pleasant surprise to receive it, but it's no big thing." "It wasn't really a goal of mine," said Lisa M. Roseff...
...Harvard Senior 24 are: Ahmed M. Abou-Zamen, Cheng, Constantine N. Costes, Aaron DiAntonio, Paul T. Donohoe, Alexander E. Dreier, Andrew R. Elby, Jonathan L. Feng, Raymond S. Flournoy, Steven J. Frucht, Handel, Daniel L. Hurewitz, Steven Joffe, Joshua M. Kosowsky, Joshua Lee, Mark H. Levine, William G. Malley, Kevin P. Moriarty, Robert R. Noyer, Andrew J. Powell, Gary D. Rowe, Wagner, Jonathan S. Weissman, and Samuel...
Though leaders of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party condemned that timetable as "too slow," they grudgingly hailed Chiang's move. Said Chu Kao-cheng, a Progressive Party lawmaker in the Legislative Yuan: "I can't deny that basic human rights will be better off than before." Last week 23 prisoners and political dissidents were released. Still, the Progressive Party, which claims to speak for the native Taiwanese, is not about to slow its push for greater Taiwanese participation in government. Chiang, however, is unlikely to accept demands that undercut the near monopoly on political power held by his ruling party...
Senior Writer Otto Friedrich pared the 544-page book down to 14,000 words for the excerpt. He met Cheng, who lives in Washington, for the first time this past March. "Her refusal to confess is absolutely extraordinary," says Friedrich. "As I spoke to her over lunch that day, I thought to myself, 'Would I have signed? Would I have given in, to spare myself the pain?' I looked across the table and knew that...
...tung plunged China into the Cultural Revolution, a decade of madness during which millions were tortured or killed on ideological grounds. One victim was Nien Cheng, a diminutive but incredibly determined woman. In Life and Death in Shanghai, excerpted in this issue, she tells of her imprisonment, torture and ultimate triumph. See SPECIAL SECTION...