Word: fu
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After almost a year of lobbying, though, nothing has been uncovered about Yang’s whereabouts—or if he will ever return. But Fu is not giving...
...Fu shuffles through her coveted stack of photographs, suddenly the home photographs end and instead there are pictures of a man—the same father and husband—standing still in the midst of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, speaking to a crowd from a podium. Then there is a picture of Yang standing still in the midst of a crowd hoisting posters. Then a blurry one of bloody bodies lying in the street...
Without her husband, Fu, a healthcare policy researcher at Harvard Medical School (HMS), has not only become a single mother, but the leader of a team of lawyers, politicians, friends and colleagues fighting to find Yang and bring him home...
While she continues to work at HMS and care for Aaron, 7, and Anita, 10, Fu makes monthly pilgrimages to Washington, D.C., to lobby for the attention of the government, refusing to let members of Congress forget about her missing husband...
...friends tell me, ‘You’re so brave!’” Fu says. “I don’t feel that way, though. I don’t see it as a bravery thing—it’s just when you have a problem, you deal with it. Like when you have a leaky pipe...