Word: qinglian
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...insularity continues. Consider the case of Beijing-born Li Shaomin, a scholar and U.S. citizen, who was recently convicted of spying for Taiwan and then expelled. His "crime": collecting material that's actually in the public domain but not meant for foreign eyes. And then there's He Qinglian, an economist who is outspoken about the cost of corruption and cronyism but, in China's authoritarian context, qualifies as a dissident. Police broke into her home several times, looking, she believes, for evidence of contact with foreigners to support a phony charge that she, too, is a spy. In June...
...lawyer's warning is echoed by the few people in Shenzhen who worry about the underdeveloped conscience of a hurried Hong Kong clone. He Qinglian, a 47-year-old Shenzhen economic researcher and journalist, wrote a pamphlet in March last year that detailed state corruption. For that public service she has been banned from publishing and is watched day and night by police, but is unfazed, saying Shenzhen provides the perfect "window" for her research. "Rich people are getting richer and the poor poorer," she says. "The poor have no rights and are forced into crime, killing, stealing and hijacking...
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