Word: chengfeng
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...will never read a quote saying the Games "will bring Beijing's corruption to the world's attention," as Zhao Hong, a teacher of Marxist philosophy in the distant city of Kunming, told TIME. And they don't know that a member of the banned China Democracy Party, Shan Chengfeng, wrote an open letter in December asking the IOC to press for the release of her activist husband and "every political prisoner," or that she is serving two years in a labor camp for her missive. Still, dissident Sha Yuguang, who has pressed for democratic reform for two decades...
...remained an observer, serving snacks at party meetings. But suddenly faced with finding a lawyer, arranging prison visits and protecting her husband's rights, she began sharing tea and tales with the wives of other political prisoners in Hangzhou. One of them was an outspoken college student named Shan Chengfeng whose husband, Wu Yilong, had co-founded Wang's party. Shan's sharp pen had won her a national essay contest, and she had written much of the party's material. Unlikely allies, the two women took their cause public. Late last year they rounded up 28 signatories...
...International Olympic Committee inspectors arrived in China to assess Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympics, Shan Chengfeng, the wife of jailed China Democracy Party founding member Wu Yilong, was sentenced without trial to two years of "reform-through-labor" in eastern Zhejiang province. The 25-year-old activist was one of 28 signatories to an open letter to the I.O.C. arguing that China's political repression violates the Olympic spirit and urging I.O.C. members to use their leverage to speed the release of prominent political prisoners. More than a month since her arrest in nearby Hangzhou, authorities...
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