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...reliable. You know how easily people can be frightened into making false confessions.'' I couldn't resist this dig. I was sure they at least suspected that the case against Liu was manufactured. (After Mao's death an official Central Committee document described how activists selected by Jiang Qing and Lin Biao tortured Liu's associates to make them provide false evidence.) In the spring of 1969, after nearly three years in prison, I was handcuffed and taken back to that same building where I had watched the crowd ''struggle'' against Shell's chief accountant, Tao Feng. I was half...
...with Jianli. He needs a theme song, and desperately wants the musician to compose an anthem for him. But Jianli is a stubborn sort, not easily bossed by his childhood friend; and he complicates things by having a liaison with the warlord's strong-willed, crippled daughter Yueyang (Xu Qing), who had been promised to the lieutenant. Think any number of Victorian melodramas...
...China who was jailed during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. After a falling-out with Mao Zedong, Wang's husband, President Liu Shaoqi, was labeled the country's "No. 1 Capitalist Roader," while the sophisticated, well-educated Wang was accused of being an American spy by the jealous Jiang Qing, Mao's wife. Publicly humiliated by the Red Guards and imprisoned in 1967, Wang was freed in 1979 to find herself a widow-Liu had died in prison 10 years earlier. Rehabilitated in 1980, she remained a faithful Party member and later founded a charity to aid impoverished mothers...
...first lady of China who was targeted during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. Wang suffered because of a falling out between her husband ex-President Liu Shaoqi and Mao Zedong--which landed Liu in jail, where he died--as well as the jealous rage of Mao's wife Jiang Qing. The well-educated Wang was also imprisoned and once suffered a public parade in which she was forced to wear a necklace of Ping-Pong balls...
...from the beginning with the intent that it would come to Harvard. It was tailor made for the museum,” said Mowry. “The collection allows the museum to provide a continuous narrative of the development of Chinese ceramic history from the Neolithic to the Qing,” Lippit said. This element of the collection, like the Japanese sculpture, is probably the finest outside of China. Said Mowry, “It is the largest, finest, and most comprehensive collection of this sort of material anywhere in the West.” According to Daron...