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...Hu Jiangxia never aspired to be an activist. Studious and soft-spoken, she preferred math textbooks to politics. While her contemporaries marched on Tiananmen Square in 1989, Hu remained at home in central China cramming for college entrance exams. The work paid off. She earned a spot at Shanghai's prestigious Jiaotong University and later a job as a software programmer at one of China's most successful companies in the eastern lakefront city of Hangzhou. It was there that Wang Youcai, a lanky fellow programmer, first asked her for a date. She turned him down. He'd spent four...
...Today, Hu is 29 and a reluctant leader of a campaign that undercuts Beijing's effort to show a kinder face to the world. In 1999 her husband received an 11-year sentence for organizing the Chinese Democracy Party, the biggest opposition party in 50 years of communist rule. Hu had 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...
...editorial was the main reason why the students extended the scope of their protests from commemorations of the late CCP secretary Hu Yaobang to also include a call for more fair evaluations of their movement. The "Tiananmen Papers" also show that the April 26 editorial was the result of much political maneuvering on the part of the conservatives within the CCP, led by Li Peng and Chen Xitong, then mayor of Beijing...
...student cries out, there should be a set of mechanisms whereby the right people learn about it." Others point out that parents must play a role too--by checking out a college's psychological services in advance and by not putting too much pressure on kids. Says Ed Hu, college counselor at Harvard-Westlake, a Los Angeles prep school: "They're just pushing their kids, causing the stress, not aware of the toll...
...student cries out, there should be a set of mechanisms whereby the right people learn about it." Others point out that parents must play a role too - by checking out a college's psychological services in advance and by not putting too much pressure on kids. Says Ed Hu, college counselor at Harvard-Westlake, a Los Angeles prep school: "They're just pushing their kids, causing the stress, not aware of the toll...