Word: shang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event sponsored by the Harvard Chinese Students and Scholars Association (HCSSA), Wang tried to enter a gathering with Chen at the Inn at Harvard, but was turned away by fellow Harvard graduate student Ying Shang, vice-president of HCSSA...
According to Shang, an assistant to the Peking University president telephoned her before the event and asked her to keep Wang Dan from attending...
...didn't want to exclude anybody," Shang said...
...plan to keep Wang from the gathering, Shang said, but she felt pressure from Hao Ping, the Peking University president's assistant...
...these changes, these moves toward a new flexibility, somehow Mao's legacy? Despite the agony he caused, Mao was both a visionary and a realist. He learned as a youth not only how Shang Yang brought harsh laws to the Chinese people, even when they saw no need for them, but also how Shang Yang's rigors helped lay the foundation in 221 B.C. of the fearsome centralizing state of Qin. Mao knew too that the Qin rulers had been both hated and feared and that their dynasty was soon toppled, despite its monopoly of force and efficient...