Word: jia
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...fear of the impact of the world economic crisis on China's already fragile social stability has strengthened party hardliners. They argue that the lack of international response to Beijing's suppression of political dissent before and during the Olympic Games - the jailing and intimidation of dissidents like Hu Jia, for example - makes even more stringent repression now the government's best option. Sinologists say a series of sensitive anniversaries that fall this year - including the 20th anniversary of the crushing of demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic - will likely...
...prospect now is that the deflation evident in the housing market may intensify. As Zheng Jia, 35, who sells medical equipment in Shanghai, said after a weekend looking at villas in suburban Shanghai: "Why buy now, when prices may be lower a month from...
...that the babies mostly spoke nonsense and their sneering expressions never changed, “Corbu Pops” Singers Madeleine A. Bennett ’11, Adriana I. Colón ’12, Julia T. Havard ’11, Zhanrui Kuang ’12, Jia Hui Lee ’12, and Hannah R. Lewis, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, were able to convey intense emotion through only their voices and limited head and hand movements. Their attribution as singers was something of a misnomer, however, meant rather to highlight...
...Police have police have interrogated more than 100 of the document's original signatories; Liu Xiaobo, a dissident scholar who was one of the drafters, was arrested by Beijing police on Dec. 8 and remains in custody. In an article published in an official journal on Jan. 18, Jia Qinglin, China's fourth-highest official, warned that the country should avoid multiparty systems, separation of political powers and other "erroneous ideological interferences." And in December President Hu Jintao warned the country to "not waver" in implementing economic reform, a remark that was interpreted as meaning "avoid political debate...
...document's authors and signers. His lawyer, Mo Shaoping, says Liu is still being held incommunicado over a week later, and police have not revealed his whereabouts. Liu's supporters fear he could be charged with the offense of "inciting subversion of state power." Beijing-based activist Hu Jia was convicted of the same in April and sentenced to three and a half years in prison...