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...Xing said in an interview through an interpreter. In one particularly graphic scene, a woman describes finding her headmaster disemboweled and beaten to death behind the schoolhouse. Later in the film, a man recounts his mother’s shooting, using his own chest to trace the path the bullet took. Merle Goldman, a professor emerita at Boston University and a research associate at the Fairbank Center, said she sponsored the viewing because it is the first Chinese movie she had seen about the Cultural Revolution. “In China, it’s a non-subject, a subject...
...lecturer Linda J. Bilmes, law professor Kenneth W. Mack, professor of international relations Joseph S. Nye, and government and sociology professor Theda R. Skocpol. “For the first time in four decades, America can go in a very promising direction or continue on a very, very sad path,” Skocpol said. Former Iowa governor and Fall 2008 Institute of Politics Fellow Thomas J. Vilsack, who also spoke at the event, told listeners that they had the opportunity to make history in November. Mack, who reflected on his memories of being Obama’s classmate...
...former U.S. diplomat in Shanghai who began his career as a translator for a ping-pong tournament between U.S. and Chinese competitors spoke here yesterday on China’s path to modernization. Douglas G. Spelman, who served as Consul General in Shanghai for three years, was the featured speaker for the Neuhauser Memorial Lecture held at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Spelman, who was an East Asian history Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the time that he had his first foray into Chinese-American relations with...
...Otto Guibovich, a representative of the joint chiefs of staff, told foreign journalists that subversion and drug trafficking had merged into one in the zone. He said that thousands of pounds of coca leaves and chemicals for making cocaine were found in one Shining Path camp. He accused Shining Path allies of propagating false allegations that soldiers had caused the disappearance of 11 people. The guerrillas and their associates, said the general, fear that a long-term military presence will destroy the illicit drug business and their livelihoods. Said Guibovich: "I can categorically say that there have been no illegal...
...charges revived memories of the Shining Path terror campaign in the 1980s and 1990s and the military response to it. A commission that investigated 20 years of political violence between 1980 and 2000 reported that more than 70,000 people were killed or missing because of political violence, with the Shining Path responsible for more than 50%. Until this attack, the Shining Path had been fading slowly since its top leaders were caught in 1992. Guibovich estimated that the outlawed party has around 300 armed fighters in the VRAE. A smaller number of armed guerrillas are also active in another...