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...dozens of memoirs about the horrors inflicted during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution line the bookcase of human evil, next to diaries from the Soviet Gulag and Holocaust concentration camps. But when Nien Cheng's harrowing Life and Death in Shanghai was published in 1986, the bamboo curtain was just lifting on the decade of madness that had seized the People's Republic beginning in the mid-1960s. Cheng was an improbable survivor of Chairman Mao's brutal campaign, a porcelain-boned diplomat's wife who spent the precommunist years swathed in silk. Yet as she recalled...
...Whether the government will get the global companies working within its borders to help maintain that "healthy way" remains to be seen. Although the state-run newspaper Thanh Nien reported that Ministry of Information and Communication deputy minister Do Quy Doan will contact Google and Yahoo! about their cooperation, representatives from both companies have said they have yet to be contacted. Google, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo have all been under fire recently for complying with the Chinese government to filter out content pertaining to controversial subjects in the country such as Falun Gong and Chinese occupation of Tibet...
...journalists' newspapers quickly denounced the arrests. The daily Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper charged in an editorial that their reporter, Chien, is the victim of a witch hunt-an unusually confrontational tone for a communist country where the press is controlled by the state. Over the past year, Chien was repeatedly questioned about his sources by police "who twisted his reports," the paper said. "(Chien) was not motivated by any personal motive or interest," the paper said. "His motive was completely pure." The Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper said that after the arrest of its reporter it was besieged...
...relevance today. That is so partly because many of those who benefited during a decade of madness not only have gone unpunished but are trying to make a comeback, and partly because a story that so vividly documents the triumph of the human spirit over inhumanity is always relevant. Nien Cheng, 72, born into a wealthy landowning family, met her husband, Kang-chi Cheng, in 1935 in England, where both were studying at the London School of Economics. The husband, a diplomat in the Kuomintang regime, was enough of an optimist to decide to remain in Shanghai with his wife...
...young woman waiting to greet Nien Cheng outside the prison was not Meiping, as she still kept hoping, but her goddaughter Hean, the daughter of an old friend. Hean took Cheng to a small house where the released prisoner had been assigned two rooms on the second floor. But what had become of Meiping? Hean did not answer. Only when Cheng insisted did Hean tell her that Meiping had committed suicide on June 16, 1967, during Cheng's first year in prison. At least that was the official story -- that she had jumped from the ninth floor of the Shanghai...