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Wang slowly warmed to the audience, especially after a white woman with a baby perched in her arms inquired about his health in halting Mandarin...
...scene is a quiet hotel room in midtown Manhattan on a sunny day in February. Two Chinese nationals are concluding a business deal in rapid-fire Mandarin. But this is no ordinary transaction. The men are discussing a straightforward proposition to sell the kidneys, corneas, livers and lungs of executed Chinese prisoners for tens of thousands of dollars. Unbeknown to one of the would-be organ brokers, however, his U.S.-based contact is Harry Wu, the human-rights activist who spent 19 years in Chinese jails and who has just secretly captured their entire exchange on videotape...
Jiang abandoned his native Mandarin and the use of his translator midway through his speech to praise the American people in fairly fluent English...
After brief introductions by Hunt, Knowles and Rudenstine, Jiang took center stage, where he proceeded to keep audiences in Sanders, Science Center A and E and the Boylston auditorium racing to keep up with the rapid Mandarin-to-English translation...
...press organizations not admitted to Sanders, Wrinn is arranging to set up a media room in Loker Commons. The coverage in the media room will be similar to that provided in the Science Center. A live television broadcast will be shown along with a feed in both English and Mandarin. Photographs will be provided by the University to news organizations not allowed on the floor...